events<\/a> as well as regional grants, accessibility initiatives, tourism promotion and community programming. Businesses across the state \u2014 including bars, restaurants, hotels and other hospitality providers \u2014 saw economic benefits, officials said.\n<\/p>\n\u201cWhen we brought the FIFA World Cup to New York, we wanted to make sure every New Yorker, every community and every industry would benefit \u2014 these past six weeks have proven that effort a success,\u201d New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a news release about the economic gains generate by the World Cup.<\/p>\n
Economic impact figures are still being finalized, but the state expects that they will \u201cfar exceed\u201d initial projections.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen all the numbers are in, the 2026 FIFA World Cup will stand as a clear win for New York and proof that investing in major events generates real economic returns for taxpayers, local businesses and communities across our state,\u201d Justin Brannan, senior director of major events for New York State, said in the news release.\n<\/p>\n
Watch parties on Long Island drew thousands of attendees, food and beverage vendors, exhibitions and more.\n<\/p>\n
The June 12 watch party evet at Stony Brook University drew 6,000 attendees throughout the day, including about 5,000 for the evening USA vs. Paraguay match.\n<\/p>\n
The UBS Arena World Cup Watch Party on June 19 attracted more than 13,000 attendees across two matches, with approximately 3,000 fans attending the U.S. vs. Australia match and more than 10,000 attending Haiti vs. Brazil. The event also served as a platform for a \u201crare cross-sector partnership\u201d among UBS Arena, Oak View Group, the New York Mets, the New York Islanders and New York City Football Club, officials said.\n<\/p>\n
More than more than 4,200 people gathered at Eisenhower Park on July 1 for the U.S. vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina, according to The Island FC, which partnered with Nassau County and Bruce Blakeman, the county executive, for the event.\n<\/p>\n
Additional watch parties were hosted at Landmark on Main Street in Port Washington, Stereo Garden in Patchogue, Mulcahy\u2019s Pub and Concert Hall in Wantagh, and Plattduetsche Park in Franklin Square.\n<\/p>\n
The World Cup is expected to deliver benefits beyond the tournament through investments in community infrastructure and youth sports.\n<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019re making sure the World Cup has a lasting impact on our state by investing in soccer fields and youth soccer programming to support young athletes for years to come,\u201d Hochul said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The FIFA World Cup generated an estimated $2.1 billion in economic impact from its first five matches at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3386,11015,9014,776,9,11,10,49,51,50,27987,114649,14771],"class_list":["post-302566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-economic-impact","tag-fifa","tag-hotel","tag-long-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-revenue","tag-room-rates","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302566","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=302566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}