Sports and Recreation

The city's greatest sports center is the Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex, a state-of-the-art, 30-acre athletic temple with facilities for jogging, basketball, volleyball, lacrosse, rock-climbing, swimming, golf, and much more. Golfers can swing a club at seven different courses throughout the boroughs courtesy of American Golf, the world's largest golf course management company. Bowlers try for strikes at the Bowlmor Lanes, NYC's hip bowling Mecca. Prefer gliding across the ice? Skate at Central Park's Wollman Rink or Lasker Rink, uptown and in Bryant Park in Midtown. Chelsea Piers has two year-round indoor ice rinks, two outdoor roller rinks, and an extreme skate park. And of course, there's the famous rink in Rockefeller Center. Joggers and runners can contact the New York Road Runners Club for information about participating in the world-famous NYC Marathon in November or any of their many organized runs. If you love seeing the world from a bicycle, at Central Park Bicycle Tours you can join a group, or rent a bikes by the hour and explore solo. Keep in mind that Central Park is just one of the city's vast web of 1,700 parks and playgrounds. In fact, Manhattan's famed green oasis is number five on the list of the city's ten largest parks! You can also enjoy running, jogging, in-line skating, basketball, softball, and soccer--not to mention great special events and festivals--at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx, the Greenbelt on Staten Island, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, and many more. You can even go bird watching in New York City! Central Park and the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx offer bird walks, and spring in Queens brings thousands of migrating shore birds to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Center. Learn more about NYC's parks. If the sea suits your fancy, go aboard a hi-tech vessel and learn how to maneuver a boat off the dock with Compass Rose Performance Sailing Charters, just a ferry ride away from the World Financial Center.

New York Mets
Shea Stadium | Flushing, NY 11368
phone 718-507-8499 | fax 718-507-7735
New York's own National League team at its open-air stadium. Seats 55,000. Design a group package for 25 or more. Choose from meals, picnics, barbecues, concessions.

New York Yankees
Yankee Stadium | Bronx, NY 10451
phone 718-293-4300 | fax 718-681-8603
At Yankee Stadium, see the Yankees' quest for their 27th World Series trophy, or tour the hallowed grounds of past and present Yankee greats. One of the finest U.S. sports facilities. Groups: 12+. Private rooms: 15; capacity: 22-150.

New York Knicks
Madison Square Garden | New York, NY 10001
phone 212-465-5867 | fax 212-465-6498
Get New York's hottest ticket. See the NBA's flagship fanchise at MSG.

New York Giants
Giants Stadium | East Rutherford, NJ 07073
phone 201-935-8111 | fax 201-935-8493
Cheer on 'Big Blue,' one of the oldest and most successful franchises in NFL history.

New York Rangers
Four Penn Plaza | New York, NY 10001
phone 212-465-6741 | fax 212-465-6092
New York Ranger home games will be played at Madison Square Garden. For individual tickets call 212-307-7171, for group sales call 212-465-6080.