{"id":211924,"date":"2026-04-27T23:28:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211924\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T23:28:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T23:28:18","slug":"nyc-will-hold-free-world-cup-fan-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/211924\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC will hold free World Cup fan events"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York City will hold a series of free events for soccer fans who hope to experience the excitement of the World Cup but can\u2019t afford the hefty ticket prices to the matches<\/a>, officials announced Monday.<\/p>\n

The events \u2014 one in each of the city\u2019s five boroughs \u2014 will include watch parties for the matches and other festivities. They will be staged at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens, Brooklyn Bridge Park in Brooklyn, a shopping center near Yankee Stadium in the Bronx and a minor league baseball stadium in Staten Island.<\/p>\n

A separate fan event planned for Sports Illustrated Stadium in Harrison, New Jersey, where the New York Red Bulls play, will cost $10.<\/p>\n

World Cup matches will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where just getting to and from the matches on public transit could cost $150<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a noted soccer devotee, announced the free events alongside New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a fellow Democrat.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery fan should be able to watch the greatest tournament on earth without dipping into their savings,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n

Similar fan events are being planned for other U.S. host cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York City will hold a series of free events for soccer fans who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24330,12541,417,426,1066,9,24,56,63,65,64,400,319,35237,421,82],"class_list":["post-211924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-billie-jean-king","tag-fifa-world-cup","tag-general-news","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-sports-stories","tag-u-s-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211924","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=211924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}