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.
After spending some time in the cyclists’ paradise of Boulder, Colo., a New Yorker returns to the difficult and sometimes dangerous practice of biking in New York—and finds that bikers here ride closer to the heart of their city.
Students who have protested against the lack of sports at small high schools have raised two important issues. One is about sports, the author argues. The other is about whether the city really wants its youth to be as politically engaged as it says it does.
For the second time in four years, a city comptroller has faulted the city school system for failing to provide adequate physical education—but been unable to assess the full scope of the issue because of gaps in the data.
Long commutes, hills and other obstacles also help to explain why borough-wide biking rates are lowest in the Bronx.
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