In 2009, the new Yankee Stadium opened, replacing what used to be a park. Since the Yankees were getting public land, the city said they needed to give back something. How did that go? Journalism students at CUNY Lehman college investigate.
Bronx
‘He’s the Glue’—Friends Honor Slain Soccer Star Who Helped Build a Team of Homeless New Yorkers
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Akeem Loney was most at home on a patch of turf in Allerton. Outside the neighborhood, the 32-year-old—who was stabbed to death while sleeping on the subway last month—helped grow a citywide soccer program from a shelter on Wards Island.
NYC parks
Public Bathroom Access at Heart of Dispute Over New Inwood Park Facility
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The Row New York boathouse planned for Sherman Creek Park will have bathrooms in its locker rooms, available only to the individuals participating in the organization’s programming.
2021 election
If New York City Is So Bad, Why Does Curtis Sliwa Stay?
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“We had gone from being a very functional city, even with de Blasio and all his inabilities, to just crashing and burning,” the Republican candidate told City Limits during a recent interview inside his spartan, cat-free Midtown headquarters.
Housing and Homelessness
NYC2036? How the 2012 Olympics Bid Reshaped New York City
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A look at how New York’s failed efforts to host the world’s biggest sporting event succeeded in reshaping huge swaths of the city, from Hunters Point to Citi Field. ‘New York never needed the Games, but we did need the infrastructure,’ one expert said.
Voices of New York
French Chef Mobilizes for Skateboarders in Brooklyn
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‘Skateboarding has never been a personal passion,’ chef Hervé Riou tells French Morning of his efforts to build a community skate garden near Prospect Park. ‘But you have to open up your soul, open up to others.’
Voices of New York
Bronx Latino Community Hopes Yankees Fans’ Return Will Herald Neighborhood’s Recovery
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‘For a whole year, this place has been like a graveyard,’ one Bronx worker told El Diario of the area around Yankee Stadium. The venue reopened to fans last week for the first time since the pandemic struck.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Opinion: Let’s Transform NYC’s Waterfront Street-Ends for Equitable Water Access
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‘Places to enter and exit the harbor safely in canoes, kayaks, rafts, sailboats, and rowboats, to educate by interacting with the water—or just to touch the water—remain strangely scarce for a city of over 8 million people.’
baseball
City’s Young Athletes Wait for the Chance to Play Again
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The loss of a coaches-pitch baseball game here or high-school track meet there is, for sure, a minor tragedy. But it is not an insignificant one.
Coronavirus
Gym Closed? A Home Workout for an Anxious Time
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‘We have been coming up with routines to make sure we are staying committed to our well-being while cooped up.’
Bronx
Africans in the Bronx Find Family on the Soccer Field
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Originally dubbed the African Diaspora Youth Sports Club, that team is now called the United Africa Football Club—a multilingual group that has won seven annual soccer tournaments.
