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The 2026 FIFA World Cup entered its semifinal stage on July 14 with France facing Spain at Dallas Stadium in Arlington, Texas, the first of two matches that will determine which teams advance to the tournament’s final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. England and Argentina meet in the second semifinal on July 15 in Atlanta. The final, scheduled for 3 p.m. ET, will mark the first men’s World Cup final played on United States soil since 1994 and will be broadcast live on FOX to a projected global audience in the billions.   Key Takeaways France and Spain opened the semifinal round on July 14 in Dallas, with England vs. Argentina following on July 15 in Atlanta. The World Cup final takes place July 19 at MetLife Stadium, temporarily branded “New York New Jersey Stadium,” with an 82,000-seat capacity and no general spectator parking. NJ Transit reduced its round-trip rail fare to $98 after backlash over an initial $150 price, while shuttle buses cost $20. The halftime show features Madonna, Shakira, BTS, and Justin Bieber in the first-ever World Cup final halftime performance, curated by Coldplay’s Chris Martin. New York City has designated every

The 57th Annual March Passed the Stonewall Inn Under a Theme Rooted in Marsha P. Johnson’s Call for Universal Liberation The 57th NYC Pride March moved through Manhattan on Sunday, drawing an estimated 75,000 marchers and more than 2 million spectators to a route that wound from Midtown through Greenwich Village and past the building where the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement began. Organized by Heritage of Pride, the march stepped off at noon from 26th Street and Fifth Avenue, traveled south along Fifth Avenue to Eighth Street, looped past the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street, and dispersed near 15th Street and Seventh Avenue. The scale of the turnout arrived against a backdrop that made the day’s theme feel less like a slogan and more like a direct response to the current moment. “For All Of Us,” drawn from a quote attributed to LGBTQ+ activist and Stonewall veteran Marsha P. Johnson — “There is no pride for some of us without liberation for all of us” — was chosen by organizers to center the march on trans and nonbinary communities facing what Heritage of Pride described as “a growing wave of hateful attacks at every level of government.” That framing carried

Group I Rematch of a 2002 Upset Headlines an Eight-Match Slate Building Toward the July 19 Final The 2026 FIFA World Cup has landed in the New York metropolitan area, and the region’s role in the tournament is only beginning to take shape. After an opening fixture that drew more than 80,000 spectators, attention now turns to Tuesday, June 16, when France meets Senegal at the stadium operating as New York New Jersey Stadium for the duration of the tournament. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. ET. The match carries more than group-stage stakes. It revisits one of the most consequential results in modern World Cup history: Senegal’s 1-0 defeat of then-defending champion France in the opening game of the 2002 tournament, a result that helped propel the Lions of Teranga to the quarterfinals. The colonial and footballing ties between the two nations give the fixture a weight that extends well beyond Group I positioning, where the two sides share the bracket with Iraq and Norway. A Statement Opener at MetLife The venue’s tournament debut came on Saturday, June 13, when Brazil and Morocco played to a 1-1 draw before a crowd of 80,663. Morocco, semifinalists in 2022 and reigning

On a quiet West Village corner where Bedford Street meets Commerce, a three-story brick sliver of a building has spent more than 150 years proving that scarcity, in New York real estate, is its own form of currency. The house at 75½ Bedford Street measures nine feet six inches across at its widest exterior point, narrowing to roughly two feet at its tightest interior pinch. It is routinely described as the narrowest house in the city, and the title has done more for its value than any renovation could. The structure reads less like a residence than an accident of 19th-century land economics. Its footprint is the leftover space of a carriage path, and everything notable about it since has flowed from that constraint rather than in spite of it. A House Built in the Width of a Carriage Path According to the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, the house went up in 1873 during a smallpox epidemic, built for Horatio Gomez, a trustee of the Hettie Hendricks-Gomez Estate. The lot it occupies was never meant to hold a home. It was the carriage entranceway running between 75 and 77 Bedford Street, the

New York City closes its grandest avenue to traffic and opens its grandest museums for free on Tuesday, June 9, when the 48th annual Museum Mile Festival transforms a stretch of Upper Fifth Avenue into a three-hour celebration of art and street life. From 6 to 9 p.m., the corridor between 82nd and 110th Streets becomes car-free, and eight of the city’s leading cultural institutions waive admission for anyone who shows up. The lineup of participating museums reads like a survey of the city’s collecting ambitions: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the Jewish Museum, the Museum of the City of New York, El Museo del Barrio, the Africa Center, and Neue Galerie New York. More than 20 organizations participate in total, including neighborhood partners such as the Church of the Heavenly Rest, Asia Society, and 92NY, which present outdoor programming along the route. The opening ceremony begins at 5:45 p.m. at El Museo del Barrio. A Tradition Built on Access The festival has run since 1978, when a coalition of institutions launched it to widen public awareness of the cultural treasures clustered along this stretch of the Upper East Side.