For the third consecutive year, City Limits is proud to be a media sponsor of this major amateur tournament.
Cycling advocates see promise in recent city initiatives but say they’d like to see the administration take more aggressive action overall when it comes to transforming New York’s streets.
The majority of the city’s designated bike lanes are unprotected: basically nothing more than around thee-feet wide stretches of asphalt marked by strips of paint and an occasional bike lane symbol. That has to change.
‘Every year segregated high schools ask the PSAL for more sports teams and are denied. Why is that allowed to happen?’
The case cites over a hundred public schools without any sports teams, of which Black and Latino students are twice as likely to attend.
The saga of the Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium in the Philippines illustrates the possibility—and potential pitfalls—of using heritage preservation as a tool to resist gentrification.
A study finding that tackle football before age 12 creates life-long health risk doesn’t appear to be generating much soul-searching by private youth teams. And the public school system, whose players are only slightly older, won’t say whether it’s thinking of changes.
Leagues from the northwest Bronx to Brooklyn and Staten Island report fielding 50 to 70 percent fewer players this year as other sports, longer school days, rising fees and other factors squeeze the game.
A group of women runners is piling up the miles and tearing down stereotypes.
Anyone who believes sports and politics shouldn’t mix, or that they typically don’t, must have taken too long a bathroom break between innings.
A thoughtlessly opened car door knocked the author off her bike, for a year. Deeper than the asphalt wounds was a terror of cars and new insight into what a genuine commitment to Vision Zero will take, from all New Yorkers.
Two of the young athlete-advocates from the Bronx’s Mary Mitchell Center demonstrate how a simple park bench can be the key to your plan to get in shape—and talk about their broader work to make the Bronx a healthier place.
