Archive for the 'NYC' Category
Harlem, NY Park Closed for Toxic Turf…
These Harlem, NY soccer fields are only five years old, cost over a million dollars to construct, and contain toxic levels of lead considered unsafe. Lead can cause brain damage, apparently...
Compare yesterday's notice with the original press release from the 2003 park opening after the jump...fairly ridiculous....
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Imbue – Drug Vend At Brighton Pier
Spotted at WoosterCollective
Banksy Takes A Swipe At Wall Street
After just touching the NYC landscape a week ago, Banksy went after the big wigs of Wall Street with this piece.
images via UKStreetArt, Jake Dobkin
The BP_TOW Crew Heading To NY For Grassroot Soccer
Beans, Ace, I.S.P.S and myself are making our way to the NYC tonight (red eye-ing it) for tomorrow's 1st Annual Grassroots Soccer United.
The game itself will be played at the Lions Gate Field in Sara D. Roosevelt park (corner of Christie and Grand) in downtown Manhattan tomorrow October 2nd at noon with Hollywood United facing off against Ethan ...
Farewell Yankee Stadium
Last night marked the final game at Yankee Stadium. Many world class athletes played in The House That Ruth Built, including Pele. Pele first visited the stadium in 1966 as part of Santos (Brazil) vs Inter Milan in an international friendly. Later, Pele joined the NY Cosmos. In the picture above, Pele scores against the Washington Diplomats in the ...
1st Annual Grassroots Soccer – NYC Charity Event
UPDATE - If any of you out there are planning to hit up this great event, let us here at The Original Winger know as I am playing in the afternoon Charity game and the entire Los Angeles based TOW crew (myself, Beans, Athe and I.S.P.S. with Joe heading down from Beantown) are heading to the NYC to be apart of this great Thursday night event at the ...
CutUp Hits Manhattan
London based CutUp made it's mark in the NYC over the weekend.
For more of their worldwide work, check the pics after the Jump....
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NY Mets Want an MLS Team, SSS
The New York Mets are looking into purchasing a Major League Soccer club after completing construction of Citi Field, the new $600 million home the baseball team will move into for the 2009 season, said David Howard, the club's executive vice president for business.
Howard said an MLS team likely would play in a different venue that would give the ...
