New York Districts?

[Kevin Leonard]

According to Google Maps, it takes about 5 hours to drive from the top of Long Island to Albany. That would be the longest drive any team would have to take to get to a centrally located state championship.

Montauk to Albany: 5 Hours
Manhattan to Albany: 3 Hours
Rochester to Albany: 3 Hours
Buffalo to Albany: 4 Hours, 30 Minutes

This doesn't seem that bad, and with some help from sponsors and other teams, I'm sure most teams that qualify for NYCMP that want to attend NYCMP would be able to. As the NYFIRST community, we could figure out a solution to that problem.

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Eastern long island is farms.

Venues arent hard. We have cable vision as a sponsor and sbpli has them as a sponsor along. James dolan is in direct contact with us so I'm sure they are also in contact with him. He owns multiple venues including Madison square garden but that's kinds far off. There's also stony brook and Queens college that have huge easy to get to venues along with Brooklyn tech hs (team 334 i believe) I've been to their school and they have huge facilities. Again all of this id far off as I'm not sure if any of these places or teams would be willing but believe me 5 venues is possible. The Nassau coliseum is losing the ny islanders this year also and I'm sure they need events to fill the stadium up.

Back to the other discussion.

When we do nyc we take the train and a district van to move our stuff. It costs us for the van but the train is payed for by students. That costs us 500ish. When we do sbpli we pay nothing as we get a school bus with a wheel chair lift.

However if we were out of nyc it would cost us upwards of 3k just for transportation.

I lived in nyc for 12 years and currently live in long island. Expecting teams around here especially the manhatten brooklyn and Queens teams to go out of train distance is a bigger deal then you think.

There are trains from NYC to Albany. There's even one that ends about a mile from the Times Union Center (which would be a likely venue if we were able to secure it for this time of year).