Maimonides Park — Attraction in New York

Overview: Incredible experience with entertainment beyond baseball and delicious food for all. It's easy to get a souvenir from the game, as lots of foul balls are given out + baseball are often handed to and thrown to kids and adults from the bullpen, base coaches, and players. Whenever there's a home run, I recommend checking out where it went beyond the stadium after the game, as you might find the home run ball up for grabs. What is now (I believe) a park or parking lot area slightly behind the left field wall used to be a large empty lot, and once two Hudson Valley Renegades players went back-to-back with home runs, one of them being the (Now) young Yankees star Jasson Dominguez. Me and my father check out the pathway infront of the lot after the game, and both balls we right next to each other in the lot! We got a worker in there to throw them over to us, and even though that was a few years ago now it will always be one of my favorite memories in New York.

Experience: If you're in to baseball, it will be a great and exciting experience. Even if you're not, it's awesome to get so close to young talent for prices that would barely even get you in to an MLB stadium. Tickets go for about 10-30 dollars, depending on the date, availability, location, and promotion of that day. All seats are super close to the stadium and give you a great view. There is lots of delicious food and even a few activities on the concourse, and you can always have a quick departure to the train or to the beach and amusement park depending on what you want to do after the game.

Food: Delicious food with a suprising variety. They have classics like hot dogs and nachos, but also a ton of more variety foods for such a small concourse and stadium. I cannot stress HOW MUCH I recommend the loaded nachos on the 3rd base side of the concourse (Pictured). They were so delicious, I'm not ashamed to say I've gone to games just for them.

Good to know: Always holds promotions with great events for kids, teens and adults and cool items for fans and collectors. There will frequently be fireworks, special events with dinosaurs and activities, and even letting kids or the whole crowd run the bases after the game and get a picture at home plate after (Pictured). It has a massive parking lot that does cost money to park at and is shared with a nearby ice rink, however I would still recommend taking either the F, D, Q, or N train to Stillwell and walking...

This place is the home of my favorite team The Brooklyn Cyclones. The Cyclones are a minor league team affiliate of the Mets. They play short season A ball and you'll find me at this place cheering for my team on most games. This stadium is located in Coney Island, right near the beach. On a sunny day there's no better place to be. For me it is a fun place, but it can get crowded and the food lines can get long. I try to get there early when the lines are shorter. They have a lot of give aways such as bobbleheads, caps and jerseys, but you must arrive early as they are usually only given to the first 2,000 people to who enter. There is a subway station just two short blocks away where several train lines stop (N, D, F, Q, B). You can easily spend a day at the beach and then catch a game at night. There's baseball, cheerleaders, mascots (Sandy and Pee Wee), there's also King Henry who is in charge of between innings entertainment. The short season runs from mid June to early September. I have met a good number of players who are now in the major leagues. Sometimes the Mets send their injured players to do rehab games (Syndergaard and Vargas made appearances last season) before they go back to the big team. There is a lot to see and do during the game, there's protective netting all the way to the end of the dugouts, but always keep an eye out...

If you're not one for sitting in huge baseball stadiums or paying close to $10 for a hot dog, you'll enjoy the cozy feeling of MCU Park - located steps from the Coney Island boardwalk, Nathan's, and nostalgic amusement park rides.

As part of a Friday evening/night Coney Island excursion, a bunch of us went on a Friday night and snagged field level seats here for $16 a pop. For those who don't know, the Brooklyn Cycles are the Single-A affiliate of the New York Mets. During games, they've got mascots, cheerleaders, and other entertainers working the stands during and in-between innings, with on-field fan contests to boot! At the end of the game, they even ENCOURAGE fans to throw stuff on the field - $1 tennis balls to be exact. Get one in any of the assorted hula hoops they have set up, and you win a big prize.

Immediately after the ballgame, we were also treated to a wonderful fireworks show, right over the boardwalk and water...we had the best seats in the house! I had no idea that they also tricked out the now-defunct "Parachute Jump" ride with a pretty sweet array of patterned LED lighting.

Overall, we had a great time here. Visiting from Manhattan, I'm not sure I'd come all the way down here JUST for a ball game, but it was a perfect addition to our awesome summer evening/night down in...