“If that means that some people miss a few practices for some period of time, I think that’s a perfectly reasonable thing to give, if it means that a lot of people have somewhere to sleep.” The latest migrant battleground: NYC soccer fields:
NEW YORK — For months, as New York City has struggled to find shelter for more than 50,000 migrants, Mayor Eric Adams has sought to rally residents to push Washington for more help.
The fields are heavily used by teams from public high schools and private leagues across the city. More than 3,000 people have signed petitions urging Adams to halt the plan. After Mayuga’s dual role was revealed Thursday by the news site The City, she said in a statement that she had not signed the petition herself.
Similarly unwarm welcomes have greeted several other migrant centers the city is building or has recently opened, including one in a recreation center at Sunset Park in Brooklyn and another in the parking lot of the Creedmoor state psychiatric hospital in Queens.Martin Jacobson, a New York soccer coaching legend at Martin Luther King Jr.
“Randall’s Island keeps kids off the street,” she said. “If you start expanding these cities and taking over more fields and lose their area to play, they’re going to go back to the street and that’s heartbreaking.” One parent from the West Side Soccer League, which charges a relatively low $175 per season for a spot, was so upset by the petition that he wrote on X that he was pulling his children out.
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