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Sports & Fitness

For the third consecutive year, City Limits is proud to be a media sponsor of this major amateur tournament.

Schedule of Bouts and Results

Cientos de nuevos equipos deportivos llegan a las escuelas de Nueva York tras demanda por equidad racial

By Jeanmarie Evelly | April 20, 2022

El Departamento de Educación y el Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL por sus siglas en inglés) están llamados a crear 200 nuevos equipos en los próximos dos años, como parte de un acuerdo sobre el acceso desigual a los deportes para los estudiantes negros y latinos.

Hundreds of New Sports Teams Coming to NYC Schools Following Racial Equity Lawsuit

From the Archives: The Happy Land Fire, Soccer and Grief, 1996

‘He’s the Glue’—Friends Honor Slain Soccer Star Who Helped Build a Team of Homeless New Yorkers

Public Bathroom Access at Heart of Dispute Over New Inwood Park Facility

2021 election

If New York City Is So Bad, Why Does Curtis Sliwa Stay?

By David Brand | October 26, 2021

“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 Development

NYC2036? How the 2012 Olympics Bid Reshaped New York City

By David Brand | August 9, 2021

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

By Emmanuel Saint-Martin for French Morning | April 21, 2021

‘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

By Fernando Martínez for El Diario | April 7, 2021

‘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

By Cortney Koenig Worrall, Rob Buchanan, Brad Vogel, Luis López and Jacky Krogh | March 23, 2021

‘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
baseball amid COVID-19

City’s Young Athletes Wait for the Chance to Play Again

By Jarrett Murphy | May 21, 2020

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
Fred Joseph does a pushup

Gym Closed? A Home Workout for an Anxious Time

By Frederick Joseph | March 17, 2020

‘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

By Michael Simpson | February 14, 2020

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.

Investigations
Ghost Bike

What’s Behind NYC’s Mounting Cyclist Death Toll?

By Jeanmarie Evelly | December 16, 2019

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.

baseball

New Sports, More Players and Limited Space are a Challenge to NYC Parks

By Marc Bussanich | August 19, 2019

In 2017, the city’s Parks Department issued 8,100 athletic permits for 877,000 hours of athletic time on DPR’s 800 ballfields—satisfying most but nowhere near all the demand for space. There are indications that pressures around parks permits are increasing.

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