{"id":211908,"date":"2026-04-27T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211908\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:16:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nyc-announces-free-fan-events-in-each-borough-ahead-of-fifa-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211908\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Nyc Announces Free Fan Events In Each Borough Ahead Of Fifa World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It&#8217;s the final countdown until the 2026 FIFA World Cup comes to the United States, and with high ticket prices, city officials say they&#8217;re launching free fan events so people can have the excitement even without a ticket.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul say there will be a designated venue in each borough. They say there will be things like live watch parties, cultural events, opportunities for local businesses to get involved and more.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Queens &#8211; USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, Flushing Meadows<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Bronx &#8211; Bronx Terminal Market<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Brooklyn &#8211; Brooklyn Bridge Park<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Manhattan &#8211; Rockefeller Center<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Staten Island &#8211; Hospital Community Park<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">In total, the events will be a 39-day celebration for people and businesses to enjoy the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The events last through the tournament, which starts on June 11 and ends on July 19. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the final countdown until the 2026 FIFA World Cup comes to the United States, and with high&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-211908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}