Over the past four years, New York City’s $100 million professional soccer club has bounced from a pier on the Hudson River to a public park in Queens, to a factory site in the South Bronx in its relentless search for a permanent home.
This being New York, where the real estate market is especially frantic, the tour for a home for the team, New York City F.C., has taken them to two-dozen locations. But the latest spot is right back where the club started in 2011: Manhattan.
New York City F.C., owned jointly by royalty from the United Arab Emirates and the Yankees, is considering a move to Columbia University’s Baker Athletics Complex, at the northern tip of Manhattan.