Category: Extracurricular Activities

  • Lace Up for Immune Health

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    Anna Amelianchik Exercise is critically important for physical and mental health because it helps stave off diseases related to obesity and reduces the symptoms of anxiety and depression. However, there is reason to believe that exercise might also protect against infectious diseases. In fact, a 2010 study showed that near-daily aerobic activity and the perception…

  • A Different Kind of Outbreak

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    Anna Amelianchik Before the novel coronavirus resulted in travel restrictions, event cancellations, and toilet paper shortages, The Rockefeller University community faced a different kind of outbreak: The Outbreak challenge. The Outbreak is a team-based six-week step and fitness challenge that syncs real-life steps and physical activity data recorded by a fitness tracker and translates them…

  • CrossFit: Everything You Need to Know About One of Our Current Fastest Growing Sports

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     Francesca Cavallo Starting any new exercise practice can be discouraging, and it’s no different when entering into a CrossFit gym, which can be a nerve-wrecking experience. Although in the current sports environment everybody is talking about CrossFit, there are those who don’t even know what kind of sport it is. CrossFit is a complete and…

  • Free Summer Park Events in NYC

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    Susan Russo Park rules for ALL parks: NO glass containers (baby bottles OK); alcohol; smoking; drugs; dogs off leashes YES blankets or towels (but NO plastic or tarps); restrooms; food vendors/stands MOVIES Manhattan Bennett Park (Fort Washington Avenue and West 183rd Street, Pinehurst Avenue) Thursday, July 21   Show starts at 8:30pm. – Ray St. Nicholas…

  • Manhattan Spring and Summer Fun

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    By Susan Russo Consider these (mostly) FREE events in NYC Parks, many falling between June and October: At Bryant Park (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, from 40th to 42nd Streets) check out http://bryantpark.org/ for days and times of events. For adults and kids, there are games to play, such as chess, checkers, mah jongg, and…

  • Paninis and Pupusas: A Jackson Heights Love Story

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    By Brianna Caszatt and A Gerald Martini In the months leading up to the World Cup, we kept reading headlines like “Panini Truck Heist in Brazil” or “Colombian Teacher Caught Stealing Students’ Paninis,” to which we thought: what the heck do sandwiches have to do with football? Then our Brazilian friend presented us with our…

  • Crickets: From Midnight Music to Midnight Snack?

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    By Jason Rothauser “And how much is that per cricket?” I ask. I’m standing in front of the reptile cages of a local Brooklyn pet store. “Ten cents a pop.” Sounds reasonable. “I’ll take forty.” In a minute or two, the clerk has wrapped up the insects in a large plastic bag, the same way…

  • World Cup 2014: Enough Info to Get by in Conversation

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    By Brianna Caszatt & A Gerald Martini, football masterminds  Temperatures are rising and flowers are in bloom: summer is practically here. And for one month this summer, people around the globe will be riveted to their screens watching all the drama unfold in Brazil at the 2014 World Cup—the football (yes football, but soccer if…

  • Puerto Rico in March – Summer at the tip of Winter

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    By Natalia Ketaren Puerto Rico, “the rich port,” is an unincorporated territory of the United States. To us travellers from the US, that means that the currency is in dollars, our cell phones work and we need only a valid US license to travel there. San Juan is the capital. It is one of the…

  • Take Me Out to the Ball Game

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    By Aileen Marshall It’s springtime in New York, and that means the start of baseball season. There is still hope in the air for the Mets, and great expectations for the Yankees, the two New York teams. Baseball is known as the “Great American Game,” illustrated by a commercial from about 30 years ago, which…