NL: 1962-2018
(57 seasons)
Joined the National League as an expansion team to begin the 1962 season.
AL: 1901-2018
(118 seasons)
One of the eight original American League teams beginning with the 1901 season.
Left Baltimore and relocated to New York to begin the 1903 season.
NFL: 1925-2018
(94 seasons)
NFL: 1960-2018
(59 seasons)
NBA: 1947-2018
(72 seasons)
NBA: 1968-2018
(51 seasons)
NHL: 1975-2018
(44 seasons)
NHL: 1973-2018
(46 seasons)
NHL: 1927-2018
(92 seasons)
Defunct Teams
106 teams have folded or moved away from the New York area
WHA: 1973-1974
(2 seasons)
ABL3: 1962-1962
(1 season)
NL: 1884-1957
(74 seasons)
Left the American Association to join the National League to begin the 1890 season.
Left Brooklyn and relocated to Los Angeles to begin the 1957 season.
Franchise currently exists as the Los Angeles Dodgers.
NL: 1883-1957
(75 seasons)
Entered the National League in 1883.
Left New York and relocated to San Francisco to begin the 1958 season.
ABL: 1950-1953
(4 seasons)
Team folded at the end of the 1951/1952 season.
NFL: 1949-1951
(3 seasons)
ABL: 1945-1951
(7 seasons)
ABL: 1942-1950
(9 seasons)
Dropped out of the league on February 1, 1950
AAFC: 1946-1949
(4 seasons)
ABL: 1945-1949
(5 seasons)
AAFC: 1946-1948
(3 seasons)
ABL: 1947-1947
(1 season)
ABL: 1947-1947
(1 season)
The team folded during their only season.
NFL: 1930-1944
(15 seasons)
ABL: 1944-1944
(1 season)
ABL: 1943-1944
(2 seasons)
Moved to Brooklyn during on January 18, 1943 and dropped out of league during the 1st half of the 1943/44 season.
ABL: 1932-1943
(12 seasons)
The team dropped out during the 1st half of the 1941/42 season, but returned for the next season, before folding.
NHL: 1927-1942
(16 seasons)
AFL3: 1940-1941
(2 seasons)
ABL: 1941-1941
(1 season)
ABL: 1941-1941
(1 season)
ABL: 1932-1940
(9 seasons)
Absorbed into the New York Jewels on January 26, 1940
ABL: 1936-1940
(5 seasons)
Absorbed into the Troy Celtics on December 19, 1939.
ABL: 1922-1939
(18 seasons)
ABL: 1938-1938
(1 season)
They dropped out of the league on January 11, 1938 near the halfway point of their first and only season.
AFL2: 1936-1937
(2 seasons)
AFL2: 1936-1936
(1 season)
ABL: 1936-1936
(1 season)
ABL: 1927-1936
(10 seasons)
ABL: 1934-1935
(2 seasons)
Merged with the Newark Mules to become the New Britain Mules for the second half of the 1934-35 season, folding thereafter.
ABL: 1934-1935
(2 seasons)
Merged with the Newark Mules to become the New Britain Mules for the second half of the 1934-35 season, folding thereafter.
ABL: 1934-1935
(2 seasons)
Merged with the New Britain Jackaways to become the New Britain Mules on January 18, 1935, folding thereafter.
ABL: 1934-1934
(1 season)
MBL2: 1932-1933
(2 seasons)
MBL2: 1932-1933
(2 seasons)
MBL2: 1932-1933
(2 seasons)
MBL2: 1933-1933
(1 season)
MBL2: 1933-1933
(1 season)
MBL2: 1933-1933
(1 season)
MBL2: 1933-1933
(1 season)
MBL2: 1933-1933
(1 season)
MBL2: 1933-1933
(1 season)
MBL2: 1933-1933
(1 season)
NFL: 1929-1932
(4 seasons)
MBL2: 1932-1932
(1 season)
MBL2: 1932-1932
(1 season)
ABL1: 1929-1931
(3 seasons)
Dropped out of the league on December 30, 1930.
ABL1: 1931-1931
(1 season)
ABL1: 1931-1931
(1 season)
NFL: 1929-1930
(2 seasons)
In 1929 Ole Haugsrud, the owner of Duluth Eskimos, sold his NFL franchise rights for the Eskimos to Piggy Simandl, a wholesale meat salesman and sports promoter from Orange, who named his franchise the Orange Tornadoes
ABL1: 1923-1930
(8 seasons)
NFL: 1926-1928
(3 seasons)
C. C. Pyle
NBL2: 1927-1927
(1 season)
NBL2: 1927-1927
(1 season)
On November 16, 1926, Ridgewood-Orange merged with Newburgh-Jersey City to form Ridgewood-Newburgh franchise.
NBL2: 1927-1927
(1 season)
On November 16, 1926, Ridgewood-Orange merged with Newburgh-Jersey City to form Ridgewood -Newburgh franchise.
NBL2: 1927-1927
(1 season)
On November 16, 1926, Ridgewood-Orange merged with Newburgh-Jersey City to form Ridgewood -Newburgh franchise.
AFLG: 1926-1926
(1 season)
Humbert Fugazy
NFL: 1926-1926
(1 season)
Humbert Fugazy
AFLG: 1926-1926
(1 season)
William Coughlin1
ELPF: 1926-1926
(1 season)
ELPF: 1926-1926
(1 season)
ABL1: 1926-1926
(1 season)
ABL1: 1926-1926
(1 season)
MBL: 1922-1923
(2 seasons)
MBL: 1922-1923
(2 seasons)
MBL: 1922-1923
(2 seasons)
MBL: 1922-1923
(2 seasons)
MBL: 1922-1923
(2 seasons)
MBL: 1922-1923
(2 seasons)
MBL: 1922-1923
(2 seasons)
MBL: 1922-1923
(2 seasons)
MBL: 1923-1923
(1 season)
MBL: 1923-1923
(1 season)
MBL: 1923-1923
(1 season)
MBL: 1923-1923
(1 season)
MBL: 1923-1923
(1 season)
MBL: 1922-1922
(1 season)
NFL: 1921-1921
(1 season)
FL: 1914-1915
(2 seasons)
Team disbanded after the Federal League folded following the 1915 season.
FL: 1915-1915
(1 season)
Relocated from Indiana to New Jersey for marketing purposes by Federal League executives after the team won the 1914 championship.
Team disbanded after the Federal League folded following the 1915 season.
NYPFL: 1913-1913
(1 season)
USBL: 1912-1912
(1 season)
New York disbanded May 26, 1912
AA: 1890-1890
(1 season)
Failed to finish their only season, folding in August of 1890.
PL: 1890-1890
(1 season)
Team was purchased by the Brooklyn Bridegrooms of the National League after the Players League folded following the 1890 season.
PL: 1890-1890
(1 season)
Team was purchased by the New York Giants of the National League after the Players League folded following the 1890 season.
AA: 1883-1887
(5 seasons)
The franchise folded and player contracts were purchased by the American Association Brooklyn franchise at the end of the 1887.
NL: 1877-1877
(1 season)
Left the National Association to become one of 8 founding clubs of the National League in 1876.
Left Hartford and relocated to Brooklyn to begin the 1877 season.
Franchise folded following the 1877 season.
NL: 1857-1876
(20 seasons)
Left the National Association to become one of 8 founding clubs of the National League in 1876.
Franchise folded after being expelled from the league for failing to complete its final road trip of the 1876 season.
NA: 1857-1875
(19 seasons)
Team disbanded after the National Association folded following the 1875 season.
NA: 1873-1873
(1 season)
Franchise folded after playing 23 games in the National Assocation during 1873.
NA: 1857-1872
(16 seasons)
After its only year in the National Association, the franchise folded following the 1872 season.
NABBP: 1857-1870
(14 seasons)
NABBP: 1866-1869
(4 seasons)
NABBP: 1868-1868
(1 season)
NABBP: 1866-1868
(3 seasons)
NABBP: 1857-1867
(11 seasons)
NABBP: 1866-1867
(2 seasons)
NABBP: 1867-1867
(1 season)
NABBP: 1866-1866
(1 season)
NABBP: 1866-1866
(1 season)
NABBP: 1866-1866
(1 season)
NABBP: 1866-1866
(1 season)
NABBP: 1866-1866
(1 season)
NABBP: 1866-1866
(1 season)
NABBP: 1866-1866
(1 season)
NABBP: 1866-1866
(1 season)
