NEW YORK — As a Bostonian visiting New York, I’m the slightest cut above, which is to say I’m not a total rube. I lived here for nearly three years, 1983-85, wrote almost daily for the New ...

Stickball has long been the sport of choice for kids growing up on the streets of New York City. But there is hope, because on streets in the Bronx and Washington Heights, a new form of this ...

Even stickball, the quintessential New York street game, is in danger of dying out, says Bronx-born Matt Levy. “I loved my childhood, and I grew up playing these games.

FILE- In this July 19, 2004, file photo, Katherine Gallagher of Glen Rock, N.J., shows her mother Emily a “Primp and Polish” Barbie, at Toys R Us flagship Times Square store in New York.

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Writing about "The Neighborhood" Little Italy in Meatballs & Stickball Two Italian-American guys are on Mulberry Street in New York City, near the intersection of what they called Jersey Alley.

The young guys wear orange T-shirts with the name of their team, La Fiebre (The Fever) Stickball. The old guys dress in New York Yankees caps and shirts and speak with the voice of Robert De Niro.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) - Some candidates for mayor and other offices have taken a swing at a New York City tradition: trying to hit a rubber ball with a broomstick. Several politicians ...

The youth league plays on Stickball Boulevard in the Bronx every Sunday after the adult games. Parents and children come from all over -- upstate New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, all five ...