Boyle’s Thirty Acres

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Jersey City, NJ, USA

  • Montgomery Street at Florence Street--south side of Montgomery Street, east of Cornelison Avenue, a mile west of the Grove Street PATH station, Jersey City.
  • It was also known as Tex “Rickard’s Arena." (It had been built by Tex Rickard in 1921.)
  • Built for the July 2, 1921 Georges Carpentier-Jack Dempsey title bout, it was demolished June 1927.
  • Seating capacity: 90,000+
  • As of 1998, it was the site of Hudson County Schools of Technology & the Montgomery Gardens Housing Project.