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Millrose Games

New York, NY · Sports

When

February 13, 2027

Where

The Armory, 216 Fort Washington Ave · New York · NY

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The Millrose Games is one of the oldest indoor track and field meets in the United States, drawing Olympic and professional milers to the Fort Washington Avenue Armory in Washington Heights each February. First held in 1908, it is best known today for the Wanamaker Mile. The 2027 edition runs February 13.

The history within reach

• Millrose Gamessame spot

  First held in 1908, the Millrose Games is the premier indoor track and field meet in the United States, staged on the Armory's banked Mondo track with Olympic and world-class milers competing each winter..

• Malcolm X assassinated0.3 mi

  Shot as he began to speak, in front of his wife and daughters.

• Croton Aqueduct brings water0.7 mi

  Forty-one miles of gravity-fed masonry, ending cholera epidemics and the reliance on wells so foul that beer was safer.

• The Polo Grounds and the Shot Heard 'Round the World0.8 mi

  The bathtub shaped park in Coogan's Hollow had foul lines under 280 feet and a centre field wall past 480, which made it the strangest field in baseball.

• The Cross Bronx, the road that cut a borough in half0.8 mi

  Robert Moses drove seven miles of trench through dense neighbourhoods, displacing some 60,000 people rather than shift the route two blocks.