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While the Yankees are gearing up for the playoffs, there’s another baseball club uptown that will play far beyond the last out of the World Series.
For most of the 200-plus kids in the Victor Lebron Little League in Washington Heights, baseball is life. They play games six days a week – and practice on the seventh.
And when other leagues take a break for the winter, these players run drills in a school basement.
Susan-Kate Heaney has 30 friends she knows everything about – and they know everything about her.
They’re all so close they live with her and her husband, Marc Kelly, in Williamsburg.
Heaney’s pals don’t need too much space, though. A corner in the room or a small closet will suffice.
That’s because her best friends are mops.
When Jon Morris looked up after arriving in New York from Kentucky four years ago, he could not see stars. He felt disconnected from the rhythms of nature. So Morris decided to make his own stars in the Hudson River and share them with New Yorkers.
On the decaying wooden stumps of Pier 49, off Bank St., 150 solar-powered LEDs shine in white and blue, perched inches above the water. “Reflect the Stars” is an interactive public art project conceived by Morris, creative director for Windmill Factory, which organizes art events with corporations and nonprofits to bring attention to social and environmental issues.
Ramona Richardson and Mensa Smith are looking for a few good young men.
The boys competitive step team for Brooklyn Technical High School, in Fort Greene, is down to six boys after most of the team graduated last year, and only three of those have any experience in competing.
