Randall's Island Sports Foundation, Inc.

New Job Opportunities at RISF

RISF is now hiring for the positions of Clerical Associate and Maintenance Handyman.
For more information on these positions and on how to apply please click here.

Darrl Stawberry, Ray Negron Give Tribute to The Boss as Hank’s Yanks Play on Randall’s Island

BY Christian Red
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 4:00 AM

A week after his death and three days after he was laid to rest in a Trinity, Fla., cemetery north of Tampa, George Steinbrenner’s aura still looms large over the Yankees and every extension of the franchise.
“It’s been a very difficult week because of my relationship [...]

John McEnroe’s Next Frontier: Home

July 20, 2010
The New Tennis Academy in His Name Is Designed to Put New York’s Junior Players Back Among the Nation’s Elite
By ADITI KINKHABWALA for Wall Street Journal
John McEnroe still fidgets.
He crosses and uncrosses his arms, he runs his fingers through that famously curly hair, he shifts in his chair. A guitar rests on a stand [...]

NY Times: On Randalls Island, Private Schools Play Free

By JENNY ANDERSON
Published: June 13, 2010
On a blazing May afternoon, a group of lanky seventh- and eighth-grade softball players from the Dalton School were locked in a fierce battle against a rival private school, St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s. The championship game was being played on Randalls Island, on an immaculately manicured field that sparkled [...]

Randall’s Island Sports Foundation awarded Challenge Grant by USA Track & Field.

Challenge Grants awarded to three groups
07-07-2010 

INDIANAPOLIS -The USA Track & Field Board of Directors announced three inaugural recipients of USATF’s 2010 Excellence Challenge Grants, with groups receiving as much as $50,000 for developmental programs. These grants, established at the 2009 USATF Annual Meeting, support the advancement of performance excellence in five specific areas: Race Walking, [...]

NY Daily News: Yankees’ Mariano Rivera, John McEnroe open new fields at Randalls Island after 3-year controversy

BY Michael Wursthorn DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, May 27th 2010, 11:24 PM
They have built them, and now everyone can come.
Public schoolchildren were on hand from PS 182 in the Bronx and Manhattan Center HS as city officials unveiled 62 new or renovated athletic fields on Randalls Island last week.
The $130 million project doubled the island’s [...]

NY Daily News Editorial on Randall’s Island

Fields of dreams: Randalls Island has become a top city sports destination
Sunday, May 23rd 2010, 4:00 AM

There’s some brightness in this era of dismal developments: New York City has a great new athletic and recreational resource on Randalls Island.
Ballplayers of all ages and every kind of ball are flocking to 62 new or renovated fields [...]

Sportime Announces Opening of New John McEnroe Academy

The John McEnroe Tennis Academy to Open in September at the new $18 Million SPORTIME at Randall’s Island Tennis Center
 NEW YORK (May 19, 2010) – Hall of Famer, native New Yorker and former world number one John McEnroe today announced that he will open and direct the John McEnroe Tennis Academy, with its inaugural, full-year [...]

RISF Announces Completion of over 60 Sports Fields

New York Yankees star players Mariano Rivera and Robinson Cano, New York Red Bulls soccer players, and tennis legend John McEnroe to attend ribbon-cutting event
NEW YORK, New York (May 19, 2010) – Randall’s Island Sports Foundation (RISF)  announces the completion of a 3-year-long, more than $130 million project, bringing over 60 state-of-the-art athletic fields to [...]

Randall’s Island “Learning Garden” cited by Mayor Bloomberg

MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND TV PERSONALITY RACHAEL RAY ANNOUNCE NEW PROGRAMS TO PROMOTE HEALTHY EATING
Gardening, Cooking and Nutrition Instruction to Show City Youth How Food is Grown and How to Bring that Food from Garden to Table
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Rachael Ray today announced a series of initiatives to help our City’s youth eat healthier [...]

Darrl Stawberry, Ray Negron Give Tribute to The Boss as Hank’s Yanks Play on Randall’s Island

BY Christian Red
DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER
Wednesday, July 21st 2010, 4:00 AM

A week after his death and three days after he was laid to rest in a Trinity, Fla., cemetery north of Tampa, George Steinbrenner’s aura still looms large over the Yankees and every extension of the franchise.
“It’s been a very difficult week because of my relationship [...]

John McEnroe’s Next Frontier: Home

July 20, 2010
The New Tennis Academy in His Name Is Designed to Put New York’s Junior Players Back Among the Nation’s Elite
By ADITI KINKHABWALA for Wall Street Journal
John McEnroe still fidgets.
He crosses and uncrosses his arms, he runs his fingers through that famously curly hair, he shifts in his chair. A guitar rests on a stand [...]

Randall’s Island Sports Foundation awarded Challenge Grant by USA Track & Field.

Challenge Grants awarded to three groups
07-07-2010 

INDIANAPOLIS -The USA Track & Field Board of Directors announced three inaugural recipients of USATF’s 2010 Excellence Challenge Grants, with groups receiving as much as $50,000 for developmental programs. These grants, established at the 2009 USATF Annual Meeting, support the advancement of performance excellence in five specific areas: Race Walking, [...]

New Job Opportunities at RISF

RISF is now hiring for the positions of Clerical Associate and Maintenance Handyman.
For more information on these positions and on how to apply please click here.

The Architects Newspaper: Randall’s Island Reborn

Regional park revived with major new amenities, its largest public space investment since Robert Moses

By Rebecka Gordan, June 14, 2010
Randall’s Island has long been a daunting landscape of deteriorating ball fields and overgrown parkland. But on May 19, the Randall’s Island Sports Foundation (RISF) announced the completion of more than 60 new athletic fields, one [...]

NY Times: On Randalls Island, Private Schools Play Free

By JENNY ANDERSON
Published: June 13, 2010
On a blazing May afternoon, a group of lanky seventh- and eighth-grade softball players from the Dalton School were locked in a fierce battle against a rival private school, St. Hilda’s & St. Hugh’s. The championship game was being played on Randalls Island, on an immaculately manicured field that sparkled [...]

Track Battles Abound In The Big Apple

 by Mario Fraioli * June 10, 2010 *
There’s plenty of races worth watching at the adidas Grand Prix meet in New York this weekend. Written by: Mario Fraioli While the much-anticipated 100-meter sprint showdown of Bolt vs. Gay will have to wait another few weeks, there are plenty of distance races on the undercard worth [...]

NY Daily News: Yankees’ Mariano Rivera, John McEnroe open new fields at Randalls Island after 3-year controversy

BY Michael Wursthorn DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, May 27th 2010, 11:24 PM
They have built them, and now everyone can come.
Public schoolchildren were on hand from PS 182 in the Bronx and Manhattan Center HS as city officials unveiled 62 new or renovated athletic fields on Randalls Island last week.
The $130 million project doubled the island’s [...]

NY Daily News Editorial on Randall’s Island

Fields of dreams: Randalls Island has become a top city sports destination
Sunday, May 23rd 2010, 4:00 AM

There’s some brightness in this era of dismal developments: New York City has a great new athletic and recreational resource on Randalls Island.
Ballplayers of all ages and every kind of ball are flocking to 62 new or renovated fields [...]

Sportime Announces Opening of New John McEnroe Academy

The John McEnroe Tennis Academy to Open in September at the new $18 Million SPORTIME at Randall’s Island Tennis Center
 NEW YORK (May 19, 2010) – Hall of Famer, native New Yorker and former world number one John McEnroe today announced that he will open and direct the John McEnroe Tennis Academy, with its inaugural, full-year [...]

RISF Announces Completion of over 60 Sports Fields

New York Yankees star players Mariano Rivera and Robinson Cano, New York Red Bulls soccer players, and tennis legend John McEnroe to attend ribbon-cutting event
NEW YORK, New York (May 19, 2010) – Randall’s Island Sports Foundation (RISF)  announces the completion of a 3-year-long, more than $130 million project, bringing over 60 state-of-the-art athletic fields to [...]

Randall’s Island “Learning Garden” cited by Mayor Bloomberg

MAYOR BLOOMBERG AND TV PERSONALITY RACHAEL RAY ANNOUNCE NEW PROGRAMS TO PROMOTE HEALTHY EATING
Gardening, Cooking and Nutrition Instruction to Show City Youth How Food is Grown and How to Bring that Food from Garden to Table
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Rachael Ray today announced a series of initiatives to help our City’s youth eat healthier [...]

adidas Grand Prix

NEW YORK (May 12, 2010) — Recently crowned world indoor champion Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica and American sprinter Allyson Felix are among the 18 Olympic and World champions and four IAAF Diamond League ambassadors added to the lineup of athletes slated to compete at the adidas Grand Prix on Saturday, June 12, organizers announced Wednesday. [...]

Sunken Meadow Fields Now Open

Sunken Meadow Fields, a collection of over 30 baseball and overlapping soccer fields, is now open.  For more information visit our sports fields page.

2010 Randall’s Island Access Guide Now Available

Plan your next visit to Randall’s Island with our helpful Access Guide.

Green Power Comes to Randall’s Island

Learn more about the City’s plan to build an alternative-energy project on Randall’s Island.