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Stickball in New York Stickball is a street game similar to baseball, usually formed as a pick-up game played in large cities in the Northeastern United States, especially New York City and Philadelphia. [17] [18] [19] The equipment consists of a broom handle and a rubber ball, typically a spaldeen, [20] pensy pinky, high bouncer or tennis ball.
The Babycastles arcade was designed to give independent game developers a public place to show their projects, and to establish such games as a social culture for New York City. [1] The arcade was originally co-located with the music venue Silent Barn in Queens. On most nights each week, the Babycastles basement arcade of indie and amateur ...
The boroughs of New York City are the five major governmental districts that comprise New York City. They are the Bronx , Brooklyn , Manhattan , Queens , and Staten Island . Each borough is coextensive with a respective county of the State of New York : The Bronx is Bronx County, Brooklyn is Kings County, Manhattan is New York County, Queens is ...
The New York City Department of Correction was first founded as a separate entity in New York City in 1895 after a split from the Department of Public Charities and Correction. [2] Roosevelt Island, then called Blackwell's Island, was the main penal institution under the jurisdiction of the DOC until the 1930s when it was closed.
New York Street Games is a 2010 documentary film directed by Matt Levy about children's games played by kids in New York City for centuries. [1] The games are fondly remembered by people who grew up in the city. Current and historical documentary footage shows children playing these games, interspersed with scenes of celebrities discussing ...
A convicted drug dealer arrested in connection with an "around-the-clock," open-air crack cocaine operation in New York City's Times Square is back on the streets after his federal prison sentence ...
NYC brute released after slugging female NYPD cop randomly attacks woman in Times Square: police Larry Celona, Kyle Schnitzer, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon February 21, 2025 at 6:00 AM
The New York Times has used video games as part of its journalistic efforts, among the first publications to do so, [13] contributing to an increase in Internet traffic; [14] In the late 1990s and early 2000s, The New York Times began offering its newspaper online, and along with it the crossword puzzles, allowing readers to solve puzzles on their computers.