Downing Stadium

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Downing Stadium was a 22,000 seat football stadium in the city of New York. Built in 1934 ^{[citation needed]} on Randall's Island in the East River as a WPA project, it served as the home stadium of the New York Stars of the WFL in 1974, and the New York Cosmos of the NASL in 1975. It was also used for some Negro League baseball games in the 1930s.

After it stopped being a major sports venue it was occasionally used as a venue for rock concerts such as Pearl Jam and Tibetan Freedom Festival. The stadium was torn down in 2002 in order to be replaced by a newer complex, Icahn Stadium, which was completed in 2004. The stadium lights, which were taken from Ebbets Field after it was torn down, were left in place to light the new field.

The stadium's largest crowd came in 1932^{[citation needed]} when over 45,000 spectators witnessed Jesse Owens in the Olympic Trials.