{"id":228679,"date":"2026-05-12T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228679\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:13:07","slug":"city-launches-soccer-streets-for-kids-ahead-of-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/228679\/","title":{"rendered":"City launches \u2018Soccer Streets\u2019 for kids ahead of World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITYWIDE \u2013 MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI on Monday officially launched the city\u2019s new \u201cSoccer Streets\u201d program, a traveling series of field days visiting 50 public schools across the city ahead of the World Cup, which starts in June.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Streets will be transformed into soccer pitches, art stations and block parties. Students will play pickup matches, run drills, paint team flags and celebrate the world\u2019s biggest sporting event.<\/p>\n<p>The events began May 1 and will continue through the last day of school on June 26, the city said in a press release. The city has not yet released a full schedule or list of participating schools.<\/p>\n<p>Schools interested in participating can contact Street Lab to learn more and get involved. Soccer Streets is a part of the city Department of Transportation\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dot\/html\/pedestrians\/openstreets.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Open Streets for Schools<\/a> program, which allows schools to close an adjacent street to traffic for recess, outdoor learning and safer pickup and drop-off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITYWIDE \u2013 MAYOR ZOHRAN MAMDANI on Monday officially launched the city\u2019s new \u201cSoccer Streets\u201d program, a traveling series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3302,98,100,99,9,24,63,4189,5271,14771],"class_list":["post-228679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-breaking","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-open-streets","tag-schools","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228679","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=228679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}