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Citi Field to host 2013 All-Star Game
On July 16, 2013, Citi Field in Queens will host the Major League Baseball All-Star Game, NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg, MLB Commissioner Allan (Bud) Selig and Mets CEO Fred Wilpon announced today.
“As we celebrate the franchise’s golden anniversary this year, I am pleased to award the 2013 All-Star Game to the New York Mets and their loyal fans,” Selig said today at a City Hall news conference.
New York City last hosted the MLB’s All-Star Game in 2008, at the old Yankee Stadium. The Mets’ old home, Shea Stadium, hosted the 1964 All-Star Game.
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May 16, 2012 8:31 PM Comments (0)
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Veuve Clicquot Polo moves across the harbor to Jersey
 After four years on Governors Island, the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic this summer is moving to Liberty State Park on the waterfront in Jersey City.
The polo match is one of many left out of Governors Island 2012 event plans due to construction projects.
The one-day polo event will take place June 2 and tickets will cost $25. (The event was free and open to the public on Governors Island, with VIP areas available for a price.) The $25 ticket includes ferry transportation from Manhattan or a shuttle transfer from New Jersey Transit Hudson-Bergen Light Rail. Parking will not be available on site.
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May 2, 2012 6:02 PM Comments (0)
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Brooklyn Nets reveal logo; tickets on sale Tuesday
 No longer New Jersey, the Brooklyn Nets today revealed their new logo to go with their still-under-construction home at the Barclays Center.
Jay-Z, a co-owner of the team, designed the logo, the Nets said.
Season tickets for the Nets’ inaugural Brooklyn season go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Other upcoming events at the Barclays Center include concerts by Jay-Z, Rush and Andrea Bocelli.
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April 30, 2012 11:25 PM Comments (0)
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Times Square to transform into Olympic Village
 Four-time gold medal winning diver Greg Louganis today flipped the ceremonial switch to light up the Empire State Building tonight in red, white and blue as part of the 100 Days to the 2012 Olympic Games in London celebrations.
On Wednesday, dozens of Olympic and Paralympic athletes will descend on Times Square for the United States Olympic Committee’s 100 Days Out Road to London Celebration.
The Times Square event, free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., will include autograph signings, Q&As and fencing, boxing, beach volleyball, gymnastics and equestrian demonstrations.
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April 17, 2012 6:27 PM Comments (0)
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Bronx Museum opens baseball exhibition
To coincide with Opening Day, the Bronx Museum of the Arts today will open a month-long, free exhibition on “Baseball in the Bronx: Nine Innings of Bronx Baseball.”
For the first week of the show, a free trolley will make a loop from Yankee Stadium, along River Avenue and across 161 Street to the Bronx Museum.
The museum’s exhibition includes the team’s logo from the old Yankee Stadium dugout (pictured,) along with vintage uniforms, memorabilia and home movies from Elston Howard (the first black Yankee,) and a brief history of Latino Baseball in El Bronx thru Club Cubano Interamericano of Melrose. One wall of the museum will feature digital projections of nearly 100 baseball photos submitted from the public during an open call, Bronx Museum Director Holly Block told NewYorkology during a media preview Thursday.
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April 13, 2012 10:20 AM Comments (0)
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Tribeca Film Fest to screen 150 films April 18-29
The 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, set to run April 18 through 29, will show 90 feature films, 60 shorts and offer up films online, on-demand and at the free outdoor Drive-In.
The festival will open with the premiere of “Five Year Engagement” on April 18 at an invitation-only event at the Ziegfeld Theater. It will not screen for the public during the festival, but will get a wide-screen release April 27.
“The Avengers” will screen at the closing-night gala April 28 but tickets will only be available to “local heroes we are celebrating that night: members of the police department, firefighters, U.S. military, and first responders,” according to festival organizers. The film will hit regular theaters May 4.
Feature films include “First Winter,” (which the festival blog has dubbed “Hipsters Face the Apocalypse”) about how a blackout causes new-age Brooklynites living in a remote farmhouse to trade in sex, drugs, and yoga for jealousy and power struggles in a bid to survive.
The comedy “2 Days in New York” stars Chris Rock and Julie Delpy as a couple coping with her French family dropping in unannounced.
New York-themed feature-length documentaries include “BAM150” about the Brooklyn Academy of Music; “Joe Papp in Five Acts” about the founder of the Public Theater; and “Once in a Lullaby: The PS22 Chorus Story.”
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April 11, 2012 2:08 PM Comments (0)
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Baseball season begins without ferries from NYC
As baseball season today commences in New York City, local Yankees and Mets fans are no longer able to get to the stadiums by ferry from Manhattan. After two years of free rides, the New York Water Taxi has thus far been unable to find a sponsor to continue free service to all home games.
Delta Airlines sponsored the free rides in the past.
“New York Water Taxi is thrilled to have had a corporate sponsor for the Baseball Shuttle who generously covered the costs of free rides to CitiField and Yankee Stadium for almost 40,000 New York baseball fans over the past few years,” Stacey Sherman, spokesperson New York Water Taxi, told NewYorkology via email. “Like all NYC baseball fans, we’re hopeful that there is someone else interested in stepping up to the plate to sponsor service to the stadiums this season. In the meantime, the extra boats are being used to expand frequency of New York Water Taxi’s Hop-On/Hop-Off service.”
Service to the U.S. Open is also scratched for 2012. “New York Water Taxi will not be providing service to the tennis matches this year either,” Sherman said. Delta had also sponsored the free tennis boats for the past two years. (The U.S. Open boats required a $1 online reservation, so technically were not completely free like the baseball boats.)
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April 5, 2012 1:25 PM Comments (1)
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New York Rangers playoff tickets on sale at noon
 New York Rangers playoff tickets go on sale today at noon, following the team’s Tuesday’s night Eastern Conference victory.
Prior to the playoffs, the Rangers have two more regular season games, including a Saturday night matchup against the Capitals at Madison Square Garden.
Dates for the playoff games have not yet been announced. The Rangers will be playing Washington, Buffalo or Ottawa in the first round, according to the New York Times.
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April 4, 2012 11:10 AM Comments (0)
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Tribeca Drive-In to screen Jaws, Goonies, Knuckleball
Cult-classics “Jaws” “The Goonies” and the new documentary “Knuckleball!” will all screen for free at this year’s Tribeca Drive-In, Tribeca Film Festival organizers announced today.
The movies will screen for free along the Hudson River behind the World Financial Center for three consecutive nights starting April 19.
First-come, first-served seating will begin at 6 p.m. along with pre-show games and activities inspired by the films. Live music will begin at 7 p.m. with the screenings starting at dusk, about 8:15 p.m.
For the premiere of “Knuckleball!,” pre-show events will include pitching clinics with pitchers R.A. Dickey of the New York Mets, Tim Wakefield, formerly of the Boston Red Sox, and former New York Yankee Jim Bouton.
The 2012 Tribeca Drive-In schedule:
April 19 - “Jaws”
April 20 - “The Goonies”
April 21 - “Knuckleball!”
Other Tribeca Film Festival free events this year will include the Tribeca/NYFEST Soccer Day on April 21 and both the Family Festival Street Fair and Tribeca/ESPN Sports Day on April 28.
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival will be held from April 18 through 29. Single tickets go on sale to the general public April 16.
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March 22, 2012 5:42 PM Comments (0)
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Yankees announce on-sale dates for individual tickets
 Single-game tickets to 2012 Yankees games are not on sale until March 27, but there is a lottery to maybe buy them earlier. Fans (and scalpers) can sign up for a lottery until 5 p.m. today that will allow winners the opportunity to purchase tickets to Yankees home games, including the April 13 Opening Day game and other premium dates (the Old-Timers’ Day Game and all games played against the Boston Red Sox and New York Mets.)
Lottery winners will be able to buy tickets from March 20 through 25.
In addition a Mastercard pre-sale will open to cardholders from March 22 at 10 a.m. to March 25 at 10 p.m.
Tickets for individual Yankees home games will go on sale to the general public March 27 at 10 a.m.
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March 15, 2012 2:07 PM Comments (1)
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