Word: 116th
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...Arnold, then a hero still, burned his ships there after holding back the British fleet in the fall of 1776. In Manhattan, Stember can startle a reader with the intelligence that a field where Washington's raggedy men knelt to fire is now the corner of Broadway and 116th Street. Volume III is remarkable in following the often neglected fighting that took place late in the war in the Carolinas, pitting Cornwallis and Banastre Tarleton against Daniel Morgan and Washington's then heir apparent Nathanael Greene...
...University Gym wasn't a strange place for the Crimson, although the squad did get lost. Sanders and his squad took the subway on a miserable snowy night to 116th St., and were misdirected, finally appearing at the start of the second half of the Columbia-Fordham freshman game...
Sanders played his collegiate basketball at NYU and grew up on 116th Street and Sixth Ave. in New York. Lou Silver (Merrick, N.Y.), Arnie Needleman (Wantagh, N.Y.), Ken Wolfe (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Mike Griffin (Port Washington, N.Y.) are no strangers to the bright lights of the Big Apple...
PRINCETON-COLUMBIA - Nassan St. v. Broadway and 116th, the Clubbies v. the Junkies. For 25 years. Princeton held the urban masses down, but then ROTC was kicked off campus and Columbia beat Princeton for the first time since 1946. Hopefully, Princeton will break Don Jackson's passing arm before he gets to use it on Harvard's defensive secondary next weekend. Columbia...