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35-640: The meeting is managed by the NSAF, and sanctioned by the USATF. Nike Indoor Nationals , which takes place at the Fort Washington Avenue Armory in New York City, is the indoor counterpart to Nike Outdoor Nationals. This athletics and track and field article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fort Washington Avenue Armory The Fort Washington Avenue Armory , also known as

70-559: A glazed brick fireplace with wooden overmantel . The drill shed is a large barrel vaulted space with balcony on all sides allowing seating for 2,300. It has massive arched trusses and is lit and ventilated via a clerestory . The 22nd Regiment traces its origins to the Union Grays, who stayed behind in Manhattan when the city's other units left for the Civil War . They helped suppress

105-551: A number of meets at the high school, college, and professional/open/masters level each year, including the Millrose Games , Nike Indoor Nationals, The Dr. Sander Invitational/Columbia Challenge and several of the largest high school meets in the country. The Armory is also home to the Colgate Women's Games Championship, which is the largest track & field series for women in the nation. The Public School Athletic League (PSAL),

140-474: A pole vault pit, and a throws cage. In September 2024, the track was revamped, with the removal of five older layers of track material, and the changing of the surface color from red to blue. The Center is widely regarded as one of the premier indoor track and field facilities in the United States and is one of only five World Athletics certified indoor facilities in the United States. The Center plays host to

175-525: A state-of-the-art facility. Norbert Sander ., who spearheaded the campaign, was the only New Yorker to have won the New York City Marathon , and a longtime member of the board of New York Road Runners . He raised $ 25 million and convinced elected officials, governmental agencies and corporate sponsors to allow him to take over the Armory. As part of the renovation, a banked track was installed. In 2002,

210-482: Is arguably the most prestigious indoor meet in the world. The event formerly took place at Madison Square Garden before moving to The Armory in 2012. Millrose features elite competition at every level, with youth, high school, collegiate, professional, and masters races. Millrose traditionally concludes with the Wanamaker Mile, which has featured many icons of the sport, including Eamonn Coghlan and Bernard Lagat . At

245-585: Is currently home to the non-profit Armory Foundation, National Track and Field Hall of Fame , Nike Track and Field Center, and other organizations including the Police Athletic League of New York City . When built in the early 20th century it was one of the first armories in New York City in the Neoclassical style, instead of the Gothic Revival mode favored during the 19th century. It was home to

280-530: Is intrinsically a stronger design compared to the barrel vault , since the barrel vault structure must rest on long walls creating less stable lateral stress, whereas the groin vault design can direct stresses almost purely vertically on the piers. A common association of vaulting in cathedrals of the Middle Ages involves a nave of barrel vault design with transepts of groined vaulting. Rib vaults resemble groin vaults but introduce structural ribs running along

315-469: Is marked by a corbeled cornice and parapet with terra cotta trim. The west (front) facade features a three-part projecting entrance pavilion flanked by four-bay sides. At the corners are square bastions with crenelated parapets in terra cotta. The entrance pavilion has octagonal bastions flanking smooth rusticated limestone voussoirs around a large sally port . Both side elevations have nine asymmetrical bays, with round-arched windows in

350-461: Is the largest European train station, Hauptbahnhof in Berlin , which features an entrance building with a glass-spanned groin vault design. The construction of a groin vault can be understood most simply by visualising two barrel vault sections at right angles merging to form a squarish unit. The resulting four ribs convey the stress loading to the four corners, or piers. The more complex groin vault

385-407: Is unscreened. All students who sign up are accepted into the program, and the full-time staff works around the clock to fill in the educational gaps. Students are given an assessment at the start of the program that helps identify strengths and weaknesses. The tutors take this data and create lesson plans for each student to help them achieve their potential. ACP works to close the opportunity gap for

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420-458: Is visible behind left field and across 168th Street in later photos of Hilltop Park , the original home of the New York Yankees . Sometime after World War II the 22nd was merged into the 42nd Division as the 102nd Engineering Battalion. It was moved around and downsized within the city's National Guard units several times until it was disbanded sometime in the late 20th century. Only two of

455-523: The Fort Washington Armory , The Armory , and the 22nd Regiment Armory , is a historic 5,000-seat arena and armory building located at 216 Fort Washington Avenue , between West 168th and 169th Streets, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City . It is a brick Classical Revival building with Romanesque Revival elements, such as the entrance arch , and

490-537: The New York City draft riots in 1863 and later saw some action on the front lines. They were one of the first units to have their own armory devoted solely to military purposes. It was located originally on West 14th Street near Sixth Avenue . In 1890, the regiment moved to another armory on Broadway at Columbus Street on the Upper West Side . It was designed by one of the unit's members, Capt. John Leo. In 1907

525-510: The frigidaria in the Baths of Caracalla and Diocletian became highly influential in church architecture in the Middle Ages . The aspirations of church building reached its zenith then, and the groin vault was pursued aggressively for its ability to create strength, without massive buttress formations; in addition, it provided the church architects a remedy for the dim illumination inherent in

560-422: The 2020 event, Donavan Brazier , Ajeé Wilson , and Elinor Purrier each set new American records. In 2023, Yared Nuguse set a new American record in the indoor mile, running 3:47.38. The Armory Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving youth by promoting fitness and education through a broad range of athletic, educational, and community programs and strives to "Keep Kids on Track." Part of

595-639: The 22nd Regiment of the Army Corps of Engineers , was used to give licensing exams for those who wished to become architects, engineers, nurses and so on, and was later used as a homeless shelter . Thanks to help of Dr. Norbert Sander The Armory was restored and in 1995 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Today the building is home to "The Fastest Track in the World" as more records have been set on The Armory's track than any other facility in

630-542: The Armory became New York's premiere indoor track and field facility. At 96,000 square feet (8,900 m ), it was almost double the size of Madison Square Garden . Through the Fort Washington Men's Shelter, the Armory provides shelter and services for 200 indigent adult males under the jurisdiction of the NYC Department of Homeless Services. In 1992, a campaign began to refurbish and modernize The Armory into

665-613: The armory was chosen as the permanent home of the National Track and Field Hall of Fame , and it is now the largest site of indoor college and high school invitationals in the world. Since 2012, it has been the location for the New York Road Runners Millrose Games . The spacious third floor is home to the Nike Track and Field Center, a 200-meter, six-lane banked mondo track, two large runways and sand pits,

700-503: The barrel vault design, since the barrel vault had to minimise fenestration to retain adequate strength. 20th-century structural engineers have studied the static stress forces of the groin vault design and validated the Romans' foresight in an efficient design to accomplish the multiple goals of minimum materials use, wide span of construction, ability to achieve lateral illumination, and avoidance of lateral stresses. A seminal modern design

735-551: The building. A double-width staircase in fireproof steel and concrete has a curving rail. Its hallway is encircled with a wide frieze on which there are two remaining Works Progress Administration (WPA) murals. At the north and south ends of the administration building are two large company meeting rooms. The south one features a paneled dado , beamed ceilings, hardwood floors and an intricately carved mantel flanked by two Doric columns. The north meeting room features paneled mahogany wainscoting , built-in trophy cases and

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770-558: The city's Armory Board held a competition for another new armory for the 22nd, to be located in the growing Washington Heights section of the city. The firm of Richard Walker and Charles Morris, whose works also included the South Ferry Building and several branch libraries in Brooklyn, won. The building was completed four years later, in 1911, at a cost of $ 1.16 million ($ 37.9 million in contemporary dollars ). The Armory building

805-460: The creative arts. Several years ago, ACP added a middle school program, which helps prepare younger students for the rigors of high school, along with providing curriculum depth in areas such as computer science and math. Notes Cross-vault A groin vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault ) is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults . The word "groin" refers to

840-434: The edge between the intersecting vaults. Sometimes the arches of groin vaults are pointed instead of round. In comparison with a barrel vault, a groin vault provides good economies of material and labor. The thrust is concentrated along the groins or arrises (the four diagonal edges formed along the points where the barrel vaults intersect), so the vault need only be abutted at its four corners. Groin vault construction

875-646: The foundation is The Armory College Prep (ACP) that helps in “Keeping Kids on Track.” Only 72 percent of New York City high school students go on to attend college after graduation, a number that is significantly lower in the underserved, largely black and Latino communities that ACP draws from. Since 2016, 100 percent of the program's graduating seniors have been admitted into four-year colleges. Students from Armory College Prep have gone on to attend Cornell, Amherst, Haverford, Williams, Washington & Lee, and many other competitive institutions. Unlike other programs that only accept students with top grades or test scores, ACP

910-500: The groin vault required great skill in cutting stone to form a neat arris. This difficulty, in addition to the formwork required to create such constructions, led to the rib vault superseding the groin vault as the preferred solution for enclosing space in Gothic architecture. The construction method was particularly common on the basement level, such as at Myres Castle in Scotland , or at

945-712: The ground floor level for the storerooms as at Muchalls Castle in Scotland. While the barrel vault was more common than the groin vault in very early architecture , including Roman and even earlier civilizations, the Romans developed the groin vault widely for applications in a variety of structures, some with significant span widths. The first groin vault in Europe was, however, constructed in Delphi by King Attalos I of Pergamon some time between 241 and 197 BC, quite possibly in 223 BC. Their application of groin vaults to vast halls like

980-434: The largest high school athletic league in the country, also makes their home at The Armory. A number of college programs – such as Columbia University , New York University , Saint John's University , St. Francis College , City College of New York and Iona College – utilize it as their home indoor track. First held in 1908, the Millrose Games is the centerpiece of The Armory’s track and field calendar, and

1015-717: The second and third stories and double-hung casement windows at street level. Some on both sets have been filled in. Behind a wooden portcullis at the rear of the sally port is the entrance, three wooden doors inside a segmentally arched stone architrave capped with a console-style keystone . It is inscribed with the words 22ND REGIMENT CORPS OF ENGINEERS NGNY . Above it is a multi-pane transom . The interior retains much of its original finish. Rooms have terrazzo floors, glazed brick walls trimmed in terracotta. The cross-vaulted ceilings are sheathed in tiles laid in chevron patterns and have glazed terra cotta architraves at their entrances. There are bronze sconces throughout

1050-484: The students by providing one-on-one tutoring in a variety of subjects, focusing on Math and English. It provides test prep for the SAT and other standardized tests, along with personalized college counseling that helps each student create a list of target schools and develop a personal narrative that is compelling to admissions officers. Through theater and literature programs, ACP also encourages students to find their own voice in

1085-584: The units survive; both are now attached to the 369th Regiment and based at its armory in Harlem. The armory remained under the jurisdiction of the New York State Division of Military & Naval Affairs . From 1968-1978, the New York Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun Club was located at the Armory where it featured a multi-lane, 100 yard indoor shooting range, run by Barry Satz who lived a few blocks away. He

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1120-440: The world. The Armory is host to 100+ track meets annually and is one of only four World Athletics Certified Indoor Facilities in the United States. Three stories high, the Armory is constructed of brick on a raised foundation with limestone and terra cotta trim. The administration building is on a fully exposed basement; the drill shed only partially. Iron bars protect the windows on the basement and first floor. The roofline

1155-429: Was famous for walking the streets of New York City, carrying a virtual montage of weapons to be used at the range. The club met every Tuesday night and members brought myriad types of small arms from around the city to shoot at the range's targets. One problem with that shooting facility was to change the 100 yard targets, you had to practically crawl due to lack of a walkway to the extended long range target area. The range

1190-507: Was first employed by the Romans , but then fell into relative obscurity in Europe until the resurgence of quality stone building brought about by Carolingian and Romanesque architecture . It was superseded by the more flexible rib vaults of Gothic architecture in the later Middle Ages . Difficult to construct neatly because of the geometry of the cross groins (usually elliptical in cross section),

1225-404: Was lined with asbestos in the shooting lanes, which at that time, no one at the range knew to be a problem. It was used as a homeless shelter late in the 20th century, housing more than 1,000 people on the drill floor. A plan was developed to modify and expand it for that purpose that would have compromised its historical integrity, the plans for a larger shelter gave way in the mid-1980s, when

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