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Education

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

Jeanmarie Evelly | March 29, 2022

The DOE and the Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) are required to launch 200 new teams in the next two years, part of a settlement over disparate access to sports for Black and Latino students. The change comes at time of increasing competition for sports fields and courts: The city turned down a quarter of the permit requests it received last year, up slightly from before the pandemic.

Bronx

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

Jeanmarie Evelly | March 25, 2022

Friday marks 32 years since the Happy Land Social Club fire in The Bronx killed 87 people. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a neighborhood soccer league became “a lifesaver for some men who did not know how to handle the flood of grief.”

Bronx

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

David Brand | December 21, 2021

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

Liz Donovan and Daniel Parra | November 16, 2021

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?

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 Homelessness

NYC2036? How the 2012 Olympics Bid Reshaped New York City

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

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

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

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.’