The Bushman steps in New York City are an almost lost artifact from baseball history. Circa 1912, this stairwell took people from the subway to the ticket booths of The Polo Grounds. Just west of Coogan's Bluff

Coogan's Bluff

Coogan's Bluff is the name of a promontory located in upper Manhattan in New York City, starting at 155th Street. Rising abruptly from the Harlem River, it is colloquially regarded as the boundary between the neighborhoods of Harlem and Washington Heights....

 in Sugar Hill Harlem

Sugar Hill, Manhattan

Sugar Hill is a neighborhood in the northern part of Hamilton Heights, which itself is a sub-neighborhood of Harlem, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The neighborhood is defined by 155th Street to the north, 145th Street to the south, Edgecombe Avenue to the east, and...

 or modern day Washington Heights, Manhattan. New York Giants baseball fans would proceed to descend the cliff via the John T. Brush Stairway. which is now closed due to neglect.

The New York Parks Dept does not know who the name Bushman refers to