âWe Could Not Find a Sign Pointing Us to Home Plateâs Former Homeâ
On a baseball pilgrimage in Brooklyn, how the Bronx inspired and more reader tales of New York City in this weekâs Metropolitan Diary.
July 25, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET
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Dear Diary:
On a trip to New York City, I convinced my wife, Linda, to join me on a baseball pilgrimage: a walk to the spot where Ebbets Fieldâs home plate once was.
After taking the subway to Prospect Park, we wandered toward Sullivan Place and the large apartment complex where the Dodgersâ ballpark used to be.
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The hall has been completely renovated to showcase nature s art.
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This slab of amphibolite rock sourced from Gore Mountain in upstate New York contains huge almandine garnet crystals that formed more than a billion years ago. Photo by D. Finnin, ©American Museum of Natural History.
Four years ago, the Halls of Gems and Minerals at New York’s American Museum of Natural History closed for long-overdue renovations. The cavelike space, deliberately designed to evoke the feeling of the mines where many of the specimens on display had been excavated, had been essentially untouched since 1976.
This week, it reopens to the public and features some 5,500 objects, from polished diamonds to rough-hewn sandstone.