Sports
Harlem softball
Kids play softball at Wagner Houses public housing in East Harlem. Photo by An Hai Phung.
Boxing Two
Photo by Edouard de Mareschal.
Boxing
Alicia Ashley, a 43 year old Jamaican-American, is a is a three time world champion. Photo by Edouard de Mareschal.
New York Aviators backup goaltender Peter Dundovich.
Through three games this season, he has a 2.77 GAA.
Excited Yankees fan Matt Glennon climbs a tree in Federal Plaza during the ticker tape parade celebrating the team's World Series victory
Glennon, 19, traveled from Connecticut for the event but like many other fans, wasn’t able to get closer than the JumboTron set up in Federal Plaza because of the huge crowds that converged near City Hall.
A baseball fan shows off his New York Yankees banner after game six of the World Series on Wednesday
The Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 7-3 to win the title.
Richard Drew, an Associated Press photographer, zooms in on Jim Bouton, former Yankee pitcher, as he signs copies of the AP's new book, New York Yankees 365
Drew said he didn’t know until he arrived at the event that he had at least six pictures in the book.
Former Iona College standout Steve "All Day All Night" Burtt Jr. sets for a free throw at Dyckman Court in Upper Manhattan
Burtt, the son of former NBA player Steve Burtt, Sr., is a Harlem native who has played professionally in Israel.
View more photos of the event in Drew Geraets’s Flickr album.
Below street level on Coney Island Avenue table tennis contests rage on the tables of the Brooklyn Table Tennis Club.
Managed by Nison Arinov, a table tennis champion from Tajikistan, the club hosts players, many from former Soviet republics, late into the night, six days a week.
For immigrants, sports can maintain a link to an identity and a culture left behind in another country. Click here to read more about the way that a community has grown around table tennis in southern Brooklyn.
For more reporting on immigration across the borough by students at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, view Brooklyn Bridges Cultures.
The lead pack in the men's 5,000 meters race along Icahn Stadium's backstretch Saturday at the Reebok Grand Prix.
Micah Kogo of Kenya won the race on Randall’s Island in 13:02.90 – the fastest time ever recorded in North America. For more images of the race, visit Drew Geraets’s Flickr set of images of the race.
