{"id":329436,"date":"2026-08-25T18:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329436\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T18:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:08:20","slug":"mamdani-announces-100-us-open-tickets-for-new-yorkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329436\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani Announces $100 US Open Tickets for New Yorkers"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City tennis lovers<\/a>: Your wallets might be spared.<\/p>\n

Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/a> is offering $100 tickets for the US Open<\/a> at a fraction of market value. One thousand lucky residents will be granted access to the tournament for $100, which includes main-draw matches from August 30 through September 8. Tickets include seats in Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong Stadiums, as well as grounds passes.<\/p>\n

Tickets will go on sale online<\/a>\u00a0beginning at 10 a.m. EST on Wednesday, August 26, on a first-come, first-served basis. Buyers must have a ZIP code in the five boroughs. Lucky winners will be able to purchase a ticket for themselves and a friend, the mayor said.<\/p>\n

The face value for grounds pass tickets this year is $65. But, as of Tuesday, tournament entry is going for between $240 and nearly $500 on resale platforms like Ticketmaster.<\/p>\n

The US Tennis Association is partnering with the Mayor’s Office on the offer.<\/p>\n

“Part of the beauty of living in our city is also the exposure to some of the greatest sporting events across the world,” the mayor said at a Tuesday press conference. “Yet, like what we’ve seen with many sporting events, the cost has continued to increase, and many New Yorkers feel as if they don’t have a chance at being a part of something like this.”<\/p>\n

Mamdani has made lotteries<\/a> and lower-cost sports tickets hallmarks of his affordability strategy this summer. He offered New Yorkers a chance to land discounted World Cup tickets<\/a>, Knicks-themed wire trash cans, and front-row seats to the July Fourth fireworks. Starting this fall, high schoolers will also be eligible for cheap entry to Broadway shows.<\/p>\n

The US Open, America’s marquee tennis tournament and one of the biggest in the world, has a reputation for grandeur<\/a>. Attendees spend hundreds of dollars beyond entry on chicken nuggets with caviar, merchandise, and the beloved Honey-Deuce cocktail. It’s part sports tournament, part public fashion show<\/a>, and part opportunity to impress your Wall Street buddies<\/a> with access to an exclusive viewing box.<\/p>\n

It’s almost a sure thing that these $100 US Open tickets will go quickly. When Mamdani announced affordable, limited-edition $50 World Cup jerseys<\/a> in June, New Yorkers played hooky from work and waited in an hourslong line just for the chance at wearing one. Some of the jerseys, however, were going for up to $1,000 on resale websites the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City tennis lovers: Your wallets might be spared. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is offering $100 tickets for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43407,8569,35957,123869,123870,105490,1445,1092,9,8783,56,63,65,64,3039,18053,31079,26626,123868,93628],"class_list":["post-329436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-access","tag-august","tag-chance","tag-cheap-entry","tag-great-sporting-event","tag-ground","tag-mamdani","tag-mayor","tag-new-york","tag-new-yorkers","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-part","tag-seat","tag-ticket","tag-tournament","tag-us-open-tickets","tag-world-cup-ticket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329436","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=329436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}