Nice football field and decent bleachers but the parking lot is rocky and kicks up dust clouds. A…read moreminor inconvenience

I've been working football games here for a long time and there are good points and bad points to…read morethis complex. The good : the field and field house are actually very nice. The artificial turf is pretty new and is a decent playing field for an urban complex. The field house isn't the fanciest but again it is better than I've seen in Newark or Paterson. The bad : the traffic entering and leaving here can be a nightmare. Especially if St. Peter's is playing. Be sure to leave early for the game. One section of bleachers is good to view the game and one not so much. It's at an angle to the field which is weird. There is a concession stand to the rear of the field house as well as public rest rooms. There is also a view of the Statue of Liberty's back from the field.....lol.....that's how NJ gets treated I guess......

Sitting here at the Gansevoort Peninsula Athletic Field right now with a cigar in my left hand…read moreafter a nice walk through the city on a Saturday night. There's nothing quite as inspiring and overstimulating as a night walk through NYC. I love the city so much because there is literally a group of grown men and women playing a competitive game of flag football at 8:11pm on a Saturday night with 2 legit refs in pinstripe shirts. The game is on a brand new turf field right along the Hudson with the Financial Districts skyline glistening in the distance, enjoying the show just like I am. FiDi skyline is lowkey underrated.... But honestly, where else is this happening? I mean I'm sure it happens elsewhere lol but you see it all the time in NYC. Adults playing soccer, roller hockey, football, basketball, kickball, softball, etc. It's awesome. I think it is one of the good things about people living on top of each other in such an extreme manner. While it's cramped, everything is so close so it makes it so easy to get together. When I lived in LA, you needed to plan like two weeks in advance to link someone that lived far from you and then one of you probably bails last minute due to some crazy traffic or cuz that drive is horrend-Damn this chick just dropped a TD that hurts. QB put it right on the button too...next play mentality though. But in NYC, more so than anywhere else I've been, people feel safe and comfortable to be themselves. I'm a firm believer that in order to be truly happy, you need to be okay and content being yourself while also having a sense of belonging with other people. Some of my happiest times have been post men's league basketball game or pickleball league, just going out to a happy hour with the team BUZZING after a win. You feel so connected with other people and with yourself. At least I do. But I'm kinda a weirdo and think about sh*t like this too much ahahaha-- Damn this QB has a LASER ahahahaha I love watching a gunslinger. But yeah, I'm getting a little too reflective so Imma wrap this up. I get inspired when people do things that bring them joy, even if it's a flag football game at 8:23pm on a Saturday night. IG @jnov_ Tiktok @jnov__

This past summer, I played in a weekly kickball league that took place at Mama Johnson field. The…read morefacility is large and spacious, and there was enough room for a couple of kickball games to take place at the same time. Although the field was well-kept and ideal for kickball conditions, it's the location that really knocks off a few stars. This field is in the middle of a not-so-hot section of Hoboken. Without getting into too much detail, one of our games was cancelled last summer because a knife was thrown on to the field. Because of that experience I probably wouldn't come back to play kickball again!

My friends and I came here for the batting cage. We made reservations ahead of time online and it…read moreas about $65 for 2 ppl for 30min. Kind of steep but the cage is all yours with unlimited balls. You can also not reserve and walk in and see if there are free cages. If you do the walk in then you can buy tokens which I think are about $3 for 10 pitches. I recommend doing the reservations so you don't have to worry about finding an empty cage. You can bring your own helmet, gloves, and bat or they have helmets and bats on site for you to borrow for free. There are 4 cages and they each have different ball speeds. We rented cage 1 which was the fastest one- (there are two modes; softball and baseball for each of the cages). I would recommend doing softball and working your way to baseball once you are comfortable. There are also other activities in the chelsea piers space such as the driving range, bowling, etc. So if you're done batting and want to do something else, there are plenty of choices.

My friends and I visited the batting cages at Chelsea Piers on a Saturday afternoon. It was my…read morefirst time ever at a batting cage, but instructions were easy to follow and I had fun! You can buy tokens at the front desk - it's $3 per token, and a token will give you ten pitches. There are four cages total, including ones that pitches faster balls. All but one cage for lefties were occupied at first. While righties had to wait a while, as a lefty I was able to start batting right away. You can choose either baseball or softball for each cage. Softball is thrown at slower speed than baseball. I started with softball and it was nice that I got used to getting balls thrown at me at slower speeds, then try baseball. It was difficult to switch between baseball and softball because I had to adjust my reaction time significantly. But the more I bat, the more I want to do better and spend more time. Yet the cost adds up quickly so we were counting the pitches closely to that we don't spend too much (actually, it was more like my friends were paying attention). If you don't feel like spending much for batting, you might as well buy a glove, a bat, and a ball, get some friends and pitch outside.

When I first heard that an indoor turf facility was opening in Williamsburg, I contacted the owner…read moreabout starting a women's league which turned out to be a terrible experience (more on that below), but first, a few notes on the facility: The field is tiny. 5 v 5 games are super tight and the ball is constantly ricocheting off players. The walls are padded which helps prevent injury, but then the ball doesn't actually bounce off the walls, instead it often ends up dying near them. The turf is enclosed with a net which makes me feel like I'm in a cage. My knees always hurt after playing there--makes me wonder, what's underneath the turf? Pickup games run $15/hour which is a lot more than other pickup games in the city. Meetup.com has dozens of cheaper options if you're looking. My experience playing in a league here was truly awful. As I mentioned, I contacted the co-owner about starting a women's league. He said he had plans to start one and asked me to help spread the word. I contacted all of the women's leagues I've played in in NYC. Registration opened in December and my squad quickly paid our dues ($180/player--around $40-30 more than the usual league fees). The start time was pushed back several times because they had trouble securing teams. One of the staff told me that the league was going to be canceled but then a few hours later we were told we could have an exhibition match in two days if we wanted to, which was very confusing. At that point, a lot of us had already made plans--especially since we were told the league was most likely being canceled. A few days later, we were told that 2 more teams had registered, and I found out via the coach and players on these teams that they were given reduced rates. Some of the players allegedly did not have to pay at all. I asked the co-owner about this and he promised me in an email that "all players will pay the same fee at the end of the day." At this point, they should have refunded our league fees and set up an all-women's pickup to drum up interest in the league, but this didn't happen. The night of our first match, the co-owner asked the team if we would be OK moving games up to 7PM (games were supposed to start at 7:30). We told him that we wouldn't be able to make an earlier start time so he agreed to stick to 7:30. A few days later, they posted the rest of the schedule and it turns out some of our games would start at 7 which would mean some of our players might miss close to half of the games. I wrote the co-owner an email asking if he could adjust the schedule and when one of his staff replied, a very rude email written by the co-owner was included in the exchange: Can you calm this person down tonight, once and for all!? Also: please don't be apologetic to her at all! I read through your emails to her and she is the sort of person who seizes upon hemming and hawing and apologies. Be firm. Not impolite. But firm. At this point, I asked for a refund because I no longer felt welcome playing in a facility owned by a person with such a poor opinion of me. While I'm willing to give a new business some leeway while they sort out how to communicate with customers, The Pitch's policies re: dealing with customer's issues are very unprofessional. The co-owner later followed up with an email in which he refused to apologize for what he said--he only apologized that I had to see his email. He also said that I had misunderstood his terminology because he was using "the British way of saying to sort something or someone out." (Note: this person is not British and anyone who has spent time with the British knows that apologizing is a very British thing to do.) The Pitch has refused to give me a refund and thus I am out $180. When I entered a team into the league, I brought with me 7 paying players, and the other teams that registered came from one of the leagues I reached out to. In the end, my efforts meant very little to The Pitch. Despite the fact that they do not think I am entitled to a refund, I have been told that they also will not let my team bring in a sub without the sub paying a pricey registration fee and $10/match. Long story short, don't waste your time and money at The Pitch. NYC has tons of parks and green space where you can play soccer for free or for a very affordable price.

I moved to Brooklyn two months ago and there has not been a week where I haven't played a pickup…read moregame there at least once. The indoor turf field is extremely well taken care of and Matt and Greg are absolutely fantastic. I've also made a ton of new friends while at the Pitch and we are forming a 4v4 summer team there. The Pitch has honestly been one of my favorite places since I moved to NY and I really look forward to playing there every time I go. P.S. Don't listen to the review before mine because it is full of complaints with no merit. The field is not tiny (especially for an indoor turf field), the ball does bounce off the wall (maybe you just have a weak leg), every turf field has beads under it (former college football player, it's a fact), and, yes, the field is caged so that the ball doesn't fly off the field (if you are playing indoors anywhere, you are technically caged, but then again that's besides the point because the whole post was full of misstatements). Sounds like a salty person who makes generalizations about everything, including all British people being apologetic, and doesn't look at the facts. I wouldn't have taken the time to write my review or defend The Pitch against the other review if the place wasn't worth it. I have truly enjoyed playing here and recommend it for anyone, including women. The ownership is great and refunded me when a pickup game got cancelled. Really happy I found The Pitch and it has made my move to Brooklyn awesome.

This is a great facility, located in Staten Island. Here for a HS track and field event and to…read moresupport my grandson who does the long jump, triple jump and today the 300m race. There were over 75 HS track teams represented from the tri-state area and Pa. As you can imagine it was ORGANIZED CHAOS, with so many athletes competing the officials kept everything running like a well oiled machine from registering the athletes for their respective events to the actual events taking place. So many different events taking place it easy to zoom in on one particular event you may enjoy. I was amazed by my grandson's events but found myself watching the pole vaulting events. These kids flying over the bars with such grace, I know I'm watching some Olympic athletes in the making. All in all the USA won't have to worry about lack of Any Olympic hopeful in the future.

Terrible hours and broken machines. All of the budget and focus goes to supporting the track &…read morefield events for high school students. If you are there for a gym membership, it's closed to you Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from December through March. Even when it's open to you, expect a lot of broken machines. No one on staff actually does repairs. Only 1 of the 3 elliptical machines is fully functional. Many of the exercise bikes don't work. Many of the treadmills are very old or don't work. Have heard that the machines were 2nd hand to begin with. Now imagine them with no maintenance. The staff doesn't reinforce proper workout clothes so expect to see many senior citizens in jeans and flannel shirts. Also, only a small fraction of the gym members actually clean off the machines when they are done. Parking is abused. At 6:50am, many spots are already taken up in the parking lot while it's relatively empty inside. Highlights of the parking lot is the random guy who uses its acoustics to play his trumpet.

Not many people know that this park has handball courts but this is where all the good players play…read more(good players as in SI standards not Brooklyn or Manhattan haha)! The only unfortunate thing is that there's one wall, so two sides to play. It'll take a while to get a lot of games in with just two walls :( and there were a lot of gnat-like bugs flying around, no mosquitoes though so bring bug spray! Other than that, the courts are great. The place is kept clean. They're surrounded by an oval-shaped fence so the ball isn't hard to retrieve once you hit it out. It'll eventually come back to you lol. The wall is in good condition; no cracks on it or the floors. Lines are clear. Definitely one of the best places to play on Staten Island.

Great playground for small kids. The entire area is set on wavy colorful soft material. Seems like…read moreit's made out of recycled rubber. It is completely enclosed with plenty of benches. It boarders nice basketball and handball courts and further on there is one baseball field that is in poor shape. At least when I was there, there were kids riding motorized bikes and adults running heavy duty remote controlled cars.

On Yelp, three stars means "OK" which is what I think about the New York Red Bulls. They've been…read moreOK. The Red Bulls are one of the 10 original teams to begin Major League Soccer (MLS) play in 1996. In 25 complete seasons, the Red Bulls have zero MLS Cup appearances. However, they have won the Supporters' Shield three times, one shy of the current league record co-held by DC United and LA Galaxy (four shields each). All three of the Red Bulls shields were won in the previous decade: 2013 (59 points), 2015 (60), and 2018 (71). So I guess you can say things have been trending up since 1996. The Red Bulls were at the top of the MLS standings at the conclusion of the 2018 regular season. They were the first-seed in the Eastern Conference. Unfortunately for New York/New Jersey, the Red Bulls lost to the eventual MLS Cup champions that year, Atlanta United FC, in the Conference Finals, 3-1. Atlanta was able to win the MLS Cup in just the team's second year of existence while after two-and-a-half decades, the Red Bulls are still searching for their first MLS Cup appearance. English forward Bradley Wright-Phillips played for the Red Bulls during the 2018 campaign. He was with the team from 2013 to 2019, appearing in 195 games, the most for any club in his career. For five straight seasons (2014-2018), Wright-Phillips was the team's top scorer. He holds team records in both goals scored in a single season (27 in 2014) and all time (125; second place is held by Juan Pablo Angel with less than half: 62). Since 2010, the Red Bulls' home has been "The Fortress," Red Bull Arena, in Harrison, New Jersey. Also referred to as the "Cathedral of American Soccer," Red Bull Arena has a seating capacity of 25,000, making it one of the bigger venues in MLS. It's not among the biggest, though, as at least five other venues have a capacity of 30,000 or higher. The New York Red Bulls were originally known as the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. It wasn't until Red Bull, the energy drink company, purchased the team in 2006 when the team's name was changed to Red Bull New York (a.k.a. New York Red Bulls).

If the team goes under, it'd Dead Bull. And if you go to watch a different team, it's Instead Bull…read more And if you get pleasure in the bathrooms at half time, it might be Head Bull? This is the original MLS team that I was fanatical about, and have been following for many years. Of course in my day they were the Metrostars, but my day is no longer the day - however I still I'm a fan and I still root for them a lot, and especially since they moved into this amazing Stadium, I'm kind of jealous because I didn't get to be a fan in these days, just in those days. Of course the stadium is actually not in New York City and not even near it so they really should be the Jersey team because this is the heart of Latin New Jersey. Pretty much right across the river from Newark. It's beautiful and amazing and I'm a huge fan of a team still to this day. I just wish they would have put some titles on the board to match how amazing they were in so many different seasons. They've been nothing but great for the league and especially in the Thierry Henry days and the Bradley Wright-Phillips days - it's been nothing but awesome for this team. But no championships.