Yonkers Insider: City of Yonkers: ***NEWS RELEASE***: CITY OF YONKERS BREAKS GROUND ON NEW SOCCER & LACROSSE FIELD ON NORTH BROADWAY & ODELL AVENUE.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CITY OF YONKERS BREAKS GROUND ON NEW SOCCER & LACROSSE FIELD ON NORTH BROADWAY & ODELL AVENUE.

 

First Regulation-Sized Soccer Field to be Constructed in Northwest Yonkers.

L-R: Dr. Fred O. Hernandez, Assistant Superintendent, Yonkers Public Schools; Lisa McKay-Harris, Deputy Parks Commissioner; Rev. Steve Lopez, Yonkers Board of Education President; Paul Summerfield, Yonkers City Engineer; Steve Sansone, Commissioner, Yonkers Parks Department; Ava Corporan, William Boyce Thompson School student; Mike Breen, Yonkers City Council Minority Leader; Jason Calixto, William Boyce Thompson School student; Adonis Crosby, William Boyce Thompson School student; William Limsiaco, William Boyce Thompson School student; Richer Tek, William Boyce Thompson School student; Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano; Anthony Landi, Yonkers Deputy Mayor;  Erick Mendez, William Boyce Thompson School student; Dr. Edwin Quezada, Superintendent, Yonkers Public Schools; Eduardo Mora, William Boyce Thompson student

 

(Photo Credit: Maurice Mercado/City of Yonkers)

 

YONKERS, NY – May 8, 2023 – Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano today joined representatives from the Yonkers Department of Parks, Recreation & Conservation, City Engineering, Yonkers Board of Education and students from William Boyce Thompson School to break ground on the City’s new soccer and lacrosse field at North Broadway and Odell Avenue.

 

The new field is the first of its kind in northwest Yonkers and the third regulation-sized soccer field in Yonkers. The 70,000 sq. ft. multi-use artificial turf field will feature lighting, parking, bleachers and overlook the Hudson River with picturesque views of the Palisades. The Yonkers Parks department will permit the field’s use to Yonkers Public Schools and local boys and girls clubs.

 

“The City is taking a parcel that’s laid dormant for decades, reimaging and repurposing it for more open, green space for our community to enjoy,” said Mayor Spano. “This ideal location will be accessible for northwest Yonkers and provide for the growing demand for more soccer and recreational fields.”

 

In addition to the nearly two dozen parks renovated in the last decade, the new field will join the City of Yonkers’ 80+ neighborhood parks system. Construction is expected to be complete in spring 2024.

 

The 3.4 acre lot is located at 1061 North Broadway, formerly part of Iona College’s Elizabeth Seton Campus. The site was part of the Elizabeth Seton Campus parking lot expansion project in 1990. Fill material, consisting of construction and demolition debris, asphalt, concrete, ash were brought to the site to construct the parking lot but the project eventually halted. In 2017, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) determined the cleanup requirements needed to address any potential contamination related to the lot had been met. The site is now owned by the City of Yonkers.