The first bicycle racing at the ground was a one mile race which was held as part of York Commercial College sports on 21st July 1886. The York Cycling Association held their athletics festival at the ground on 24th July 1886 and included bicycle races. This event was repeated several times in the late 1880s and usually attracted around seventy competitors and a crowd of one thousand. Bicycle racing took place on a grass track marked out a five laps to the mile.
The York City and Suburban Bicycle Club first held their annual sports on 11 July 1890 at Bootham Crescent, the bicycle races were typically one and two miles open handicap and a one mile novice's race. The 1891 meeting attracted over four thousand spectators. The annual sports continued through the 1890s and in 1895 the York Star Cycling Club started to promote their own meetings, the attendance at these evening meetings could be as high as 2,000. By 1902 the meetings had moved to Wigginton Road and there was no further bicycle racing at Bootham Crescent.
York Cricket Club left Bootham Cresent and moved to Wigginton Road in January 1932, they leased their old ground to York City Football Club. York City FC played there for the next ninety years, York Knights rugby league club also played at the ground from 2016 to 2020. York City FC left the ground in 2021, the ground was sold to Persimmon Homes in 2022 and was developed for housing. The main access road in the housing scheme is called David Longhurst Way after one of York City FC's famous players. The brick boundary wall, which was built when the ground was used for cricket, has been retained and restored.
