{"id":256649,"date":"2026-06-05T18:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256649\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:32:10","slug":"long-summer-nights-nyc-extends-hours-for-athletic-fields-at-select-parks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256649\/","title":{"rendered":"Long summer nights: NYC extends hours for athletic fields at select parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who play sports in <a href=\"https:\/\/nycgovparks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New York City parks<\/a> will be able to play later at night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/?s=mamdani\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> and NYC Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura announced on June 5 that sports lighting will remain on for an additional hour, extending to 11 p.m., at 50 park locations citywide this summer. The announcement comes a week before the start of the FIFA World Cup, and amid the Knicks\u2019 historic run in the NBA Finals \u2014 both of which Mamdani and Shimamura alluded to in their announcement.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/lifestyle\/extended-hours-athletic-fields-nyc-parks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at amNY &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tLong summer nights: NYC extends hours for athletic fields at select parks &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Those who play sports in New York City parks will be able to play later at night. Mayor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[99986,232,22925,9,24,56,63,65,64,22458,93357,10649],"class_list":["post-256649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-athletic-fields","tag-lifestyle","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nyc-parks","tag-nyc-parks-commissioner-tricia-shimamura","tag-parks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256649","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=256649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}