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Kissena Park Velodrome

Archive in Progress

Kissena's "Track of Dreams" from Bicycling magazine
Kissena Velodrome Info
Kissena Velodrome Renovation
One-lap video tour (1.1MB)

Update Wednesday, April 2, 2003
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Beginning Years, 1963 & 1964


View from turn one as Junior riders swarm the track.

National Championships, 1964
Photos by Al Hatos, from American Cycling Newsletter, 1964 and 1965.

Kissena Velodrome 1964
Peter Senia Jr. (NY) wins the Junior 5-Mile Final.


Start of Women's 2-Mile Final, won by Nancy Burghart (NY).


Men's 10-Mile Open won by Jackie Simes III (NJ).


1964 National Track Champion, Jackie Simes III.


Jackie Simes relayed by John Chapman, in a Madison race they won from a "star-studdded field."

Middle Years, 1970s

Photos by James Wagenvoord, from Bikes and Riders New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972.