{"id":225503,"date":"2026-05-09T04:52:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/225503\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T04:52:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T04:52:51","slug":"the-story-behind-sparrows-nest-a-mahjong-studio-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/225503\/","title":{"rendered":"The story behind Sparrow&#8217;s Nest, a mahjong studio in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tile game mahjong has been played for generations, holding a special place in several cultures. But recently, the game has had an <a class=\"externallink\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/lifestyle\/american-mahjong-obsession-6bae4ca9\">explosion of popularity<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>After the pandemic, many young people were searching for third spaces. And David Bresnick, a professional mahjong player, was looking for a place to play. So, in 2023, he decided to open Sparrow\u2019s Nest in Midtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be so great if there was a home for mahjong, a place to do it,\u201d Bresnick said. <\/p>\n<p>Click the audio player above to hear his story.<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The tile game mahjong has been played for generations, holding a special place in several cultures. But recently,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[88652,75,84,83,9,24,63,88651],"class_list":["post-225503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-mahjongg","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-third-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225503","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=225503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}