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The ___MASK83___ are an American professional baseball team based in Houston , Texas . The Astros are members of the American League ( AL ) West division in Major League Baseball ( MLB ), having moved to the division in 2013 after spending their first 51 seasons in the National League ( NL ). The Astros have played their home games at Minute Maid Park since 2000 . The City of New York , often called New York City or simply New York , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the ___MASK44___ tip of the state of New York , the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area , one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " New York minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . Chavez Ravine is a shallow L - shaped canyon located in Los Angeles , California , United States , partially in the Elysian Park neighborhood . It sits in large promontory of hills north of downtown Los Angeles and was known in the 1860s as the " Stone Quarry Hills " which had other smaller ravines such as Sulphur Ravine , Cemetery Ravine , Solano Canyon and Reservoir Ravine . It is next to Dodger Stadium , a baseball venue that opened in 1962 . The name Chavez Ravine can be used to mean either the actual ravine itself in a narrow sense or sometimes in a broader sense the entire promontory and surrounding ravines , and is also used to ___MASK11___ to the stadium . Dodger Stadium was constructed by knocking down the ridge which separated the nearby Sulfur and Cemetery Ravines and filling those two ravines in . Palo Verde Elementary School was buried in the process . Chavez Ravine was named for Julian Chavez , a Los Angeles councilman in the 19th century . Chavez originally purchased the land in the Elysian Park area , which eventually grew to about 315 acres , in 1844 . Nearby " Cemetery Ravine " was named after old Calvary , the first cemetery of Los Angeles . The NRG Astrodome , also known as the Houston Astrodome or simply The Astrodome , is the world ' s first multi - purpose , domed sports stadium , located in Houston , Texas . Construction on the stadium began in 1962 , and it officially opened in 1965 . It served as home to the ___MASK83___ of Major League Baseball ( MLB ) from its opening in 1965 until 1999 , and the home to the Houston Oilers of the National Football League ( NFL ) from 1968 until 1996 , and also the part - time home of the ___MASK33___ of the National Basketball Association ( NBA ) from 1971 until 1975 . Additionally , the Astrodome was the primary venue of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo from 1966 until 2002 . When opened , it was named the Harris County Domed Stadium and was nicknamed the " Eighth Wonder of the World ". South Brooklyn is an " obsolete and imprecise " historic term for a section of the former City of Brooklyn  now the New York City borough of Brooklyn  encompassing what are now the Boerum Hill , Carroll Gardens , Cobble Hill , Gowanus , Park Slope and Red Hook neighborhoods . It was named for its location , south of the original Village of Brooklyn . It should not be confused with the geographic ___MASK44___ region of the modern borough of Brooklyn , which includes the neighborhoods of Gravesend , Sheepshead Bay , Gerritsen Beach , Seagate , Coney Island , Brighton Beach , and Manhattan Beach , Mill Basin and the area near Kings Plaza . A proposed domed stadium for the ___MASK30___ , designed by Buckminster Fuller , was to replace Ebbets Field for the ___MASK30___ to allow them to stay in New York City . The Dodgers instead moved to Chavez Ravine in Los Angeles , California . First announced in the early 1950s , the envisioned structure would have seated 52 , 000 people and been the first domed stadium in the world , opening roughly a decade before Houston ' s Astrodome . The stadium , in Fort Greene , Brooklyn , would have been located at the northeast corner of Flatbush Avenue and Atlantic Avenue , on the site of the Atlantic Terminal . It would have cost $ 6 million to build and been privately financed . It was never built . The general area eventually did become a sports venue , because Barclays Center was built across the street to the south from the Atlantic Terminal , in neighboring Pacific Park . Dodger Stadium , occasionally called by the metonym Chavez Ravine , is a baseball park located in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Los Angeles , the home field of the ___MASK79___ , the city ' s Major League Baseball ( MLB ) franchise . Opened on April 10 , 1962 , it was constructed in less than three years at a cost of $ 23 million , financed by private sources . Los Angeles ( Spanish for " The Angels "), officially the City of Los Angeles and often known by its initials L . A ., is the second - most populous city in the United States ( after New York City ), the most populous city in California and the county seat of Los Angeles County . Situated in ___MASK44___ California , Los Angeles is known for its mediterranean climate , ethnic diversity , sprawling metropolis , and as a major center of the American entertainment industry . Los Angeles lies in a large coastal basin surrounded on three sides by mountains reaching up to and over . Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn . Part of Brooklyn Community Board 2 and served by the New York City Police Department ' s 88th Precinct , Fort Greene is listed on the New York State Registry and on the National Register of Historic Places , and is a New York City  designated Historic District . It is located in northwest Brooklyn in the area known as South Brooklyn , just across from Lower Manhattan and north of Prospect Park . Houston is the most populous city in Texas and the fourth - most populous city in the United States after Chicago , located in Southeast Texas near the Gulf of ___MASK92___ . With a census - estimated 2014 population of 2 . 239 million within an area of , it also is the largest city in the Southern United States , as well as the seat of ___MASK19___ . It is the principal city of Houston  The Woodlands  Sugar Land , which is the fifth - most populated metropolitan area in the United States of America . The National Basketball Association ( NBA ) is the predominant men ' s professional basketball league in North America , and is widely considered to be the premier men ' s professional basketball league in the world . It has 30 teams ( 29 in the United States and 1 in ___MASK54___ ), and is an active member of USA Basketball ( USAB ), which is recognized by FIBA ( also known as the International Basketball Federation ) as the national governing body for basketball in the United States . The NBA is one of the four major professional sports leagues in the United States and ___MASK54___ . NBA players are the world ' s best paid sportsmen , by average annual salary per player . The ___MASK33___ are an American professional basketball team based in Houston , Texas . The Rockets compete in the National Basketball Association ( NBA ), as a member club of the league ' s Western Conference Southwest Division . The team plays its home games at the Toyota Center , located in downtown Houston . The Rockets have won two NBA championships and four Western Conference titles . The team was established as the San Diego Rockets , an expansion team originally based in San Diego , in 1967 . In 1971 , the Rockets moved to Houston . Lower Manhattan , also known as Downtown Manhattan , is the southernmost part of Manhattan , the central borough for business , culture , and government in the City of New York , which itself originated at the ___MASK44___ tip of Manhattan Island in 1624 . The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs , known simply as the National League ( NL ), is the older of two leagues constituting Major League Baseball ( MLB ) in the United States and ___MASK54___ , and the world ' s oldest current professional team sports league . Founded on February 2 , 1876 , to replace the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players , it is sometimes called the Senior Circuit , in contrast to MLB ' s other league , the American League , which was founded 25 years later . Both leagues currently have 15 teams . The two league champions of 1903 arranged to compete against each other in the inaugural World Series . After the 1904 champions failed to reach a similar agreement , the two leagues formalized the World Series as an arrangement between the leagues . National League teams have won 48 of the 112 World Series contested from 1903 to 2016 . The 2016 National League champions are the ___MASK46___ . Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn , New York City . It is known mainly as the home of the ___MASK30___ baseball team of the National League , from 1913 to 1957 , but was also home to three National Football League teams in the 1920s . Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population . Geographically located in the south central part of the country , Texas shares borders with the U . S . states of Louisiana to the east , Arkansas to the northeast , Oklahoma to the north , New ___MASK92___ to the west , and the Mexican states of ___MASK87___ , Coahuila , Nuevo León , and Tamaulipas to the southwest , while the Gulf of ___MASK92___ is to the southeast . The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo , also called RodeoHouston or abbreviated HLSR , is one of the largest live entertainment and livestock exhibitions . It also includes one of the richest regular - season rodeo events . It has been held at NRG Stadium in Houston , Texas , since 2003 . It was previously held in the Astrodome . It is considered to be the city ' s " signature event ", much like ___MASK23___ ' s Mardi Gras , Dallas ' s Texas State Fair , ___MASK50___ ' s Comic - Con and New York City ' s New Year ' s Eve at Times Square .