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NY Times: Hard-Driving Star D.J.’s Serve Up the Thumps

dsalerno — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:52:58 +0000

By JON PARELES

Published: September 6, 2010

Sunlight hit sequins at Electric Zoo, a two-day electronic dance festival on Randalls Island. For 12 hours a day on Saturday and Sunday, disc jockeys (not all using discs) pumped out 4/4 beats from four stages, and dancers in party costumes — with cat ears, fake-fur leggings, fluorescent wigs and all kinds of glitter — raised their hands in the air to channel them.

It was the second annual Electric Zoo, sold out with 25,000 people each day. In a musical zone that diligently parses itself into subgenres, the festival’s 67 acts added up to both a dance marathon and a broad-spectrum survey, from crowd-pleasing trance and relentless techno to abstract minimal house. In the three tents and on an outdoor main stage, with D.J.’s front and center acting more like cheerleaders than technicians, every style put bodies in motion.

Read the full review at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/07/arts/music/07zoo.html?_r=1&ref=arts

Korean Produce Association Festival

dsalerno — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:56:36 +0000

Randall’s Island Park is proud to host the Korean Produce Association’s annual festival. The event will take place October 9 & 10, 2010. For more informatin please visit www.kpany.org.

Request for Proposals: Food & Beverage Concession on Randall’s Island

dsalerno — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:55:59 +0000

We are very excited to announce the release of the Request for Proposals (RFP) for a Food & Beverage Concession at Randall’s Island Park in New York City.

The RFP seeks “proposals for the operation and maintenance of one (1) interior food concession at Icahn Stadium, the construction, operation and maintenance of a minimum of two (2) but no more than five (5) seasonal cafes, and the option of constructing, operating and maintaining up to five (5) mobile food units at Randall’s Island Park, Manhattan. Parks is seeking proposers who can demonstrate experience in food service operations to operate and maintain the food and beverage concessions”. The concession is for one (1) ten-year term.

There will be a proposer meeting and site tour at Randall’s Island Park on September 21, 2010 at 1pm.

Final proposals are due on October 14, 2010 at 3pm and must be submitted in a sealed envelope and received in the office of the Assistant Commissioner for Revenue, City of New York Parks & Recreation, The Arsenal-Central Park, 830 Fifth Avenue, Room 407, New York, New York 10065.

To download the RFP please click here.

If you have any questions please feel free to email David Salerno at David.Salerno@parks.nyc.gov

Fields 12 to 48 are closed due to the weather

lprimerano — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:01:14 +0000

Museum Acquires Storied Trove of Performances by Jazz Greats

dmaher — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:02:47 +0000

By: Larry Rohter

August 16, 2010

For decades jazz cognoscenti have talked reverently of “the Savory Collection.” Recorded from radio broadcasts in the late 1930s by an audio engineer named William Savory, it was known to include extended live performances by some of the most honored names in jazz — but only a handful of people had ever heard even the smallest fraction of that music, adding to its mystique. ….

The collection has already shed new light on what is considered the first outdoor jazz festival, the 1938 Carnival of Swing on Randalls Island. More than 20 groups played at the event, including the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras, and though newsreel footage exists, no audio of the festival was believed to have survived — until part of performances by Count Basie and Stuff Smith turned up on Mr. Savory’s discs.

Click here to read the entire article.

Champions For Children 2010

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:57:05 +0000

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 | Espace, New York City
Cocktails — 6 p.m., Dinner & Program — 7 p.m.

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Inside Front Cover $7,500
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Full Page $2,000
Half Page $1,000
Quarter Page $500

NOTE: Back Cover cannot be accepted online at this time. Please download and complete our reservation form and fax it back to (212) 829-0770 or call us at (212) 829-0002 to make your purchase.

Table and Ticket Reservations

Commissioner Sponsor Table $25,000

Includes premium seating for 10
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Leadership Sponsor Table $15,000

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Champion Sponsor Table $10,000

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Patron Ticket $2,500

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Friend Ticket $1,000

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Individual Ticket $750

NOTE: Commissioner Sponsor Table and Leadership Sponsor Table reservations cannot be accepted online at this time. Please download and complete our reservation form and fax it back to (212) 829-0770 or call us at (212) 829-0002 to make your reservation.

Contribution

Contributions and journal ads are fully tax-deductible. The non tax-deductible portion of each ticket is $185.
For further information: Please contact the RISF Benefit Office at 212-829-0002, or email risf@sharpthink.com.

Run the River 5K

dmaher — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:00:55 +0000

Randall’s Island Sports Foundation’s Young Professionals Council will be hosting a 5K road race followed by races for children and a party for all.

Start and finish will be within Icahn Stadium, which is a world class facility that meets International Amateur Athletic Federation specifications for accommodating local, national and international track and field events, including Olympic training and trials. The course will take runners outside Icahn Stadium along the island’s beautiful waterfront pathways and then return runner to the stadium where they can make a grand finish on the 400-meter Mondo surface running track with dramatic views of the East River and Manhattan skyline in the distance. After the adults 5K there will be a party and races for children.

Awards: Top 3 Male and Female Overall will receive an award and a cash prize. 1^st Place $150 * 2^nd Place $100 * 3^rd Place $50 Other awards will be given for the top 3 male and female races in certain age categories and all children who participate will receive an award.

Post Race Party: The post race party will include music and refreshments for all racers . All 5K runners will receive a t-shirt. A bag check will be provided.

Entry Fee: 5K – $30 (before Oct. 4) $35 (Oct. 5 & after); Youth – $5

Visit runtheriver5k.eventbrite.com to register for the race and to learn more information!

Randall’s Island Hosts Youth Track, Field Championships

dmaher — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:11:49 +0000

8/11/2010

By: Roger Clark

The City Parks Foundation hosted the 9th annual Track and Field championships at Icahn Stadium on Randall’s Island today.

Following an Olympics-style parade, thousands of kids participated in the 172 events, which included javelin, triple-jump and hurdles.

The competition is a culmination of a summer program at 12 city parks around the five boroughs for kids ages five through 16.

To read the entire article and see video of the event click here.

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

dmaher — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:20:25 +0000

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 with him, more than just being a baseball player. He meant a great deal to a lot of people, touched a lot of lives. I think a lot of times that was overlooked because he was The Boss,” former Yankees and Mets slugger Darryl Strawberry said Tuesday. “Everybody looked at him more because of everything he said about the Yankees and winning all the time.”

Strawberry was on hand to throw out the ceremonial first pitch of a baseball tournament on Randall’s Island that was sponsored by Verdero sporting goods, a Bronx-based company founded by Jorge Medina.

To read the full article click here.

John McEnroe’s Next Frontier: Home

dsalerno — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:07:27 +0000

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 by the desk in his small office at the Sportime tennis facility on Randall’s Island, next to an open racket bag and under a picture of Mr. McEnroe and Jack Nicholson.

Mr. McEnroe and Tony Blair, Mr. McEnroe and Bono, a portrait of Mr. McEnroe’s six kids and a shot of Mr. McEnroe on guitar—they’re all hanging on the wall, all a little haphazardly, almost as if that wild intensity has forced the frames to fidget too.

Except for one. It’s a cover of a 1977 Tennis magazine, with a Mr. McEnroe who looks remarkably like the one across the desk —save for perhaps a bit more hair—and a caption that reads, “Leader of the Junior Uprising.” On this day, that one’s perfectly straight. And right at eye level. Almost as if to say there will be nothing slapdash in this second junior uprising Mr. McEnroe is bent on leading.

The stab at rock stardom, the attempt at talk-show hosting, the game show his brother Mark unapologetically called “dopey,” all those dabbles are in the past. New York’s all-time greatest tennis player is home and committed to New York, certain there are burgeoning all-time tennis greats running around the same neighborhoods he once roamed—and that he’s the one to mold them.

The John McEnroe Tennis Academy officially opens right after the U.S. Open. But the seven-time Grand Slam-winner has been a presence here at this $19 million tennis center on the island off Manhattan’s 125th Street since December. He’s hired a director of tennis, he’s assembled a staff of coaches, he’s debated the merits of coach-to-player ratios and he’s worked with kids. Lots of them, in a very real, very patient way.

To read the full article please click here