Helmet Day Frame Color:Brown published May 1

published May 1

The train made a creaky and sooty run of 14 miles from City Hall in downtown Manhattan to Gun Hill Road in the Bronx for more than seven decades

Record Crowd of 90

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The recent rezoning of Midtown East will cut even more of the skyline into unfamiliar silhouettes

Helmet Day Frame Color:Brown published May 1Long before baseball teams started giving away bobbleheads and souvenir cups like candy, there was Helmet Day at Shea Stadium. Some 54,424 spectators, the largest crowd of the season, packed the ballpark in Queens for a New York Mets game and a free helmet on May 30, 1970. They gave out 37,212 plastic batting helmets to the small ones in the crowd on a cool and sunny Memorial Day afternoon, wrote The Times after the Mets beat the Houston Astros, 4 3.