There was a time during the 20th Century when New York was the boxing cpaital of the world. Young men from ethnic neighborhoods all over the city sweated in gyms and dreamed for a shot at the title. On weekends, fight clubs filled all over the city, and Madison Square Garden hosted fights just about every Friday night. And in good weather, title fights made regular stops at Yankee Stadium and the Polo Grounds.
But no more. And, as Dave Anderson of the New York Times chronicles today, one of the last vestiges of that glorious past is finally leaving New York, as the Everlast plant in the Bronx is closing as part of a corporate consolidation:
FROM the outside, it's a gloomy gray building in a gloomy gray industrial section of the Bronx, not far from the Triborough Bridge, about as far away as you can get from the casino glitz of a big fight these days. But inside, the Everlast plant is where most of the boxing gloves in a big fight have been made for decades
