[5][6] The building itself was used as a television production center for the ABC Network and local station WABC-TV where Eyewitness News was broadcast.

[7] During the World War II era, the building was briefly named Royal Windsor Palace.

Accounts in The New York Times report that boxing greats Jack Johnson, Jess Willard, Kid Chocolate and Rocky Graziano fought there;[7] the future heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson fought his first professional match there in 1952.

On one of the final fight cards, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) stopped Billy Daniels by seventh-round TKO on May 19, 1962, nine days before The Rink closed its doors for good.

[11] The last TV series on the DuMont network was Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena which went off the air August 6, 1956.

In a 1960 episode called "The Big Tall Wish" of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone the venue of a fictional boxing match was a "St. Nick's Arena".

The arena is also a location in the episode "A Death of Princes" from the American television series Naked City which originally aired on 12 October 1960.

Guest stars include Eli Wallach, George Maharis, Peter Falk, and Godfrey Cambridge.