West Siders Win District Championship
By Lisa Chen
On July 13, the West Side Little League’s 11- to 12-year-old tournament team beat Staten Island’s Peter Stuyvesant to win the District 23 Championship, the first milestone on the road to the Little League World Series in Williamsport in August. This is the first time in three years and the second in 26 years that West Side Little League has won the 11–12s District Championship, which encompasses 12 leagues from Manhattan and parts of the Bronx.
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West Side Soccer Kicks Off Graduation
By Ashley Welch
Sixty Upper West Side teenagers celebrated over a decade of hard work and fun on the soccer field this past weekend.
The high school seniors attended their graduation from the West Side Soccer League, a division of the American Youth Soccer Organization, with a luncheon at the Hudson Beach Café on Saturday.
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Take It Easy, Weekend Warriors
Injuries to men returning to a sport are common, so start slowly
Ed Gemdjian, a personal trainer at Equinox’s 17th Street location, ran track and cross-country in high school until a series of injuries ended his running career.
Years later, he still gets the urge to run whenever the weather warms up.
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Yorkville Stickball Champ at 73
By Thomas Pryor
“My life as a boy growing up in Yorkville was stickball,” said Ron Weiss, a 73-year-old baseball player, who knocked in the first RBI of the pre-season for his senior team this spring.
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JUNIOR LEAGUE SPRING HOUSE TOUR
Step inside some of Manhattan’s most stylish homes Saturday, May 7, as part of the New York Junior League’s 16th Spring House Tour.
The tour showcases homes in some of the city’s most sought-after neighborhoods, including Midtown East, the Meatpacking District, Midtown City, the Upper West Side and the West Village. The houses in Midtown East that will be featured belong to Marjorie Reed Gordon, of Snap Decor, sewing together the indoor and outdoor space into a contiguous living area, and Darren Henault, of Darren Henault Interiors, which is the former town home of a coal magnate.
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City Week: August 20 – August 26
A Selective Listing of Recommended Cultural & Community Events
Compiled by Hannah O’Grady and Shilpa Agrawal
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20
Senior Citizen Jin Shin Jyutsu—Open to senior citizens, this is a peaceful way to start your afternoon. Join Judith Janus, practitioner of Jin Shin Jyutsu, to harmonize your mind, body and spirit with various exercises. DOROT, 171 W. 85th St., 212-769-2850; 10:30 a.m., $5 (suggested donation).
Summer Salsa—Dance Manhattan hosts this month’s Salsa Social, part of an eight-year-old program open to new and experienced dancers alike. 39 W. 19th St., 5th Fl., 212-807-0802; 9:30 p.m., $5-$10. Read more
City Week: August 13 – August 19
A Selective Listing of Recommended Cultural & Community Events
Compiled by Alice Robb and Reid Spagna
Friday, August 13
Mostly Mozart—The 2010 Mostly Mozart Festival continues with Osmo Vanska, called “a conductor of genius” by The New Yorker, leading the Festival Orchestra in a performance of Mozart’s D-Minor Piano Concerto and Symphony No. 40. Avery Fisher Hall, West 65th Street & Columbus Avenue, 212-875-5316; 8 p.m., $35-$90. Read more
Ben for Shortstop
Yes we can put a true fan of the national pastime on the All-Star team
By Ben Krull
The league bosses have excluded me from the ballot and ESPN refuses to cover my candidacy. But if you join my write-in campaign to play in the 2010 Baseball All-Star Game, we can send a message to the establishment. Read more
One Year, Two Record-Breakers
Inside the main gym at The Dalton School’s athletics building, there is a large banner listing the 1,000-point scorers in the school’s basketball history. The list stretches back decades and includes roughly a dozen entries. But until this year, it featured only one girl, a 2006 graduate named Mia Gliedman. This season, within a month of each other, two girls added their names to the short honor roll.
Steph Lechich started playing basketball with a small, rubber ball when she was 5. She was too small to use a real basket, so her father would mimic a hoop by holding his arms in a circle and allowing her to shoot through it. She’s been draining buckets ever since. Jan. 25, she hit a 3-pointer to pass the 1,000-point mark. Read more
Ride ’Em, Cowboy
Any time bulls come to Madison Square Garden, you usually know what to expect: A walking advertisement for big-and-tall clothing purveyors, some intense above-the-rim athleticism, a healthy dose of Derrick Rose and Joakim Noah and, if the past decade is any indication, a loss for the Knicks.
The bulls came to the Garden the weekend of January 8, but they had nothing to do with basketball. And instead of seven-footers, the half-filled arenas got to see 1,600-pounders. The athletes weren’t the Chicago Bulls but rather the bucking bulls of Professional Bull Riding’s fifth annual New York Invitational. Read more
