Soccer Moms Want Their Patch Of Grass

The Crocs industry would be nowhere without soccer moms. SUVs would be collecting dust at the local dealership if it weren’t for soccer moms. The acronym “MILF” would simply look like a misspelling of MILK if it weren’t for soccer moms. Yet, New York developer Sheldon Solow doesn’t care about any of that. The billionaire developer is proposing to “build Manhattan’s largest residential development—4,000 apartments in six residential towers—on the former Con Ed site just south of the United Nations,” but a remaining five-acres of valuable space won’t be housing any soccer fields or baseball diamonds, and that’s got quite a lot of those soccer moms ticked.

“We’re already at maximum capacity on the fields we have,” says Kate Crotty, a Stuyvesant Town mom with two soccer-playing daughters. She’s a founder of Ballfields for Kids, which claims at least 750 families as members and wants fields added to Solow’s plans. Otherwise, Crotty says, area sports leagues will be forced to hold tryouts—meaning some children won’t be able to play.

We bet all New York soccer moms look like Anne Hathaway. Since we’ve arrived at that conclusion, we’re hoping Solow comes around to let them little boogers get a field.
A Red Card for Solow’s Plans? [New York]
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