The New York City Rollersports Coalition is a collection of amateur New York City athletes with common facility needs, bound together to encourage and support development of an indoor roller skating rink for the people of New York.
It is a tragedy that Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn — the birthplace of roller disco — currently contain no indoor facilities for year-round roller skating. With the recent demise of the last remaining indoor roller skating and roller sports rinks in New York City, many athletes and skating enthusiasts are forced to battle the elements at the city’s sub-par outdoor roller skating facilities, or compelled to leave the city entirely in order to practice and compete.
The vision
The Coalition’s primary goal is to encourage and initiate development of a dedicated indoor rollersports facility convenient to midtown Manhattan and major mass transit options. Ideally, this facility would serve as a permanent practice home for a variety of established community groups, and would be large enough to host sporting events for 2,000-5,000 spectators.
The facility would serve as the focal point of roller sport athletics in the tri-state area. It would be a center for serious and casual amateur leagues, youth training, individual exercise, and recreational skate dancing, 12 months a year. With a flexible design, it could host world-class speed skating, roller hockey, roller derby, skateboarding or skate dance events and exhibitions. Venue television programming rights and live internet content streaming rights could be sold to local sports cable networks or internet portals.
The groups composing the New York City Rollersports Coalition are established leagues and associations with long track records of supplying exciting competitive action and skating opportunities to its members and audiences. These groups provide an immediate built-in customer base for such a facility. Combined, they can provide over fifty hours a week of paid tenancy. They represent hundreds of dedicated regular participants — and they also bring with them throngs of fans and an existing body of sponsors.
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