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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Mayor's Fund to Advance NYC, the U.S. Soccer Foundation, the New York City Football Club, Etihad Airways, and adidas launched the NYC Soccer Initiative, a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership that will build, maintain, and program 50 mini soccer pitches in underserved neighborhoods across the five boroughs in five years.

The partners pledge to invest a total of $3 million to build and maintain the pitches and provide free programming for New York City school children, focused on healthy, active living, and mentorship. The program will serve 10,000 young New Yorkers through after-school soccer and mentoring programs, such as soccer clinics, festivals, youth summits, and night leagues to promote safe, active, and connected communities; this will also include a partnership with the City's Young Men's Initiative, providing young men of color with mentorship opportunities.

Through constructing these new fields and supporting afterschool programming and mentoring, the NYC Soccer Initiative will repurpose underutilized public spaces in our most underserved neighborhoods, creating safe areas to promote physical health, youth development and community engagement. Site selection for the fields will be targeted towards neighborhoods that are focuses of the Mayor's Building Healthy Communities Initiative, the Parks Department's Community Parks Initiative, the Mayor's Action Plan for Neighborhood Safety or the Young Men's Initiative

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2019 Locations

Moore Playground (East Harlem, Manhattan) - East 130th, Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10037

Equity Playground (Woodhaven, Queens) - 91-02 88th Ave, Woodhaven, NY 11421

PS 150 (Brownsville, Brooklyn) - 364 Sackman St, Brooklyn, NY 11212

PS 142 (Lower East Side, Manhattan) - 100 Attorney St, New York, NY 10002

J Hood Wright Park (Washington Heights, Manhattan) - W. 173 St &, Haven Ave, New York, NY 10033

Neptune Playground (Coney Island, Brooklyn) - 2840 W 12th St, Brooklyn, NY 11224

Century Playground (Coney Island, Brooklyn) - 2951 West 3rd Street Brooklyn, NY 11224

People’s Park (Mott Haven, Bronx) - 535 E 141st St, Bronx, NY 10454

PS 42 (Arden Heights, Staten Island) - 380 Genesee Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10312

Flushing Meadows Corona Park (Flushing/Corona, Queens) - Corona, NY 11368

2018 Locations

Thomas C. Giordano Middle School 45/P.S. 46 Edgar Allan Poe (Belmont, Bronx)

Hostos Lincoln Academy of Science/ P.S. X010/I.S. 584/University Prep Charter High School (Woodstock, Bronx)

I.S. 384 Frances E. Carter/ P.S. 053 (Bushwick, Brooklyn)

Playground 62/P.S. 220 Edward Mandel (Forest Hills/Corona, Queens)

The Police Officer Rocco Laurie Intermediate School 72 (New Springville, Staten Island)

The Police Officer Rocco Laurie Intermediate School 72 (Second pitch at site)

P.S. 180 Hugo Newman (Harlem, Manhattan)

Riverdale Avenue Community School P.S. 446/Riverdale Avenue Middle School (Brownsville, Brooklyn)

M.S. 180 Dr. Daniel Hale Williams (Baychester, Bronx)

Castle Hill Playground/ Castle Hill Middle School/Linden Tree Elementary School (Parkchester, Bronx)

Junior High School 123 James M. Kieran/ The School for Inquiry and Social Justice (Soundview, Bronx)

2017 Locations

P.S. 083 Luis Munoz Rivera/ The Bilingual Bicultural School 182, Manhattan

P.S. 184 Shuang Wen, Manhattan

P.S. 093 Albert G. Oliver, Bronx

P.S. 66, Brooklyn

Triborough Bridge Playground (B), Queens P.S. 019 Marino Jeantet, Queens

Frederick Johnson Playground, Manhattan

Irwin Altman Middle School 172/Hillside Park, Queens

I.S. 49 Berta A. Dreyfus/ Eagle Academy for Young Men of Staten Island, Staten Island

P.S. 335 Granville T. Woods/Woods Playground, Brooklyn

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Partners

A special thank you to our partners for making this first of its kind initiative a reality. The NYC Soccer Initiative will utilize the U.S. Soccer Foundation's Soccer for Success program and builds off the success of the New York City Football Club's Healthy Hat-Trick program. Nationally, these initiatives have served more than 15,000 young people with after-school programming, positively impacting youth in making healthier food choices and improving confidence.