{"id":238186,"date":"2026-05-20T16:44:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238186\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T16:44:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T16:44:44","slug":"whitey-ford-field-clean-up-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/238186\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitey Ford Field Clean-Up &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-05-20\/7p1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199677\" class=\"wp-image-199677 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7p1-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers came to Whitey Ford Field to clean out the dugout, remove divots from the ballfield, and rake the infield. Photo by Neil Herdan\" width=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-199677\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers came to Whitey Ford Field to clean out the dugout, remove divots from the ballfield, and rake the infield. Photo by Neil Herdan<\/p>\n<p>Friends of Whitey Ford Field thank everyone who participated in their cleanup last week. Fifteen volunteers from Astoria Sports, NYC Rising Stars, Queens Lighted Softball Association, Eleanor Roosevelt High School, Frank Sinatra High School for the Arts, and the FDNY (NYC Bravest) with their youth explorers unit ventured down to Whitey Ford Field to clean out the dugout, remove divots from the ballfield, and rake the infield.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, we would like to thank Mike Gutierrez and Michael Brown, who had battled a huge blaze at one of Astoria\u2019s oldest churches, First Reformed Church, a few days before. This five-alarm fire, which started in an abandoned rectory, eventually spread to most of the church, re\u00adsulting in its complete demolition a week or so later. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-05-20\/7p2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199681\" class=\"wp-image-199681 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7p2-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Astoria Sport Softball Photo by Neil Herdan\" width=\"225\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-199681\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Astoria Sport Softball Photo by Neil Herdan<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-05-20\/7p3.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199685\" class=\"wp-image-199685 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/7p3-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"(L. to r.): Mike Gutierrez and Michael Brown with their youth explorers.\" width=\"225\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-199685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L. to r.): Mike Gutierrez and Michael Brown with their youth explorers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Volunteers came to Whitey Ford Field to clean out the dugout, remove divots from the ballfield, and rake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-238186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238186","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=238186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}