Anyone know the NYTimes article about urban games?

December 24, 2005 7:47 PM

Sunday New York Times, probably November 27th, an article about urban games, possibly on the front page?

I've done searches with restricted date range (so maybe my date is wrong) on the nytimes site, and I've tried searching every permutation of "urban games" "big games" etc. I've just spent a long time combing through the site.

Just wonder if anyone has way better skillz than I do, or better yet knows the article I'm talking about. Some kind of article about games that take place in New York City, maybe, where people are running around, maybe.

Only one thing certain: appeared in the Sunday NYTimes sometime shortly after Thanksgiving.

Desperate to find it, thanks in advance and happy non-denominational holidays to the lot of you.

posted by cloudscratcher to media & arts (9 comments total)

Sorry if this is misguided, but I thought I remember seeing that in the NYT Magazine, not the paper itself.
posted by rossination at 8:28 PM on December 24, 2005

Need more description, since "urban games" isn't doing it. Can you remember anything else about the article? Anything at all?
posted by mediareport at 8:36 PM on December 24, 2005

I saw the article you're talking about re-printed in the Seattle Times. I'd have guessed it was a couple or 3 months ago, tho, so perhaps it was a different article on the same phenomenon.

Sorry. I can't think of the name of the sport, but it was basically urban skateboarding without the skateboard. Running around, jumping, climbing, balancing- I'm pretty sure the sport has the word 'free' in it.
posted by carterk at 9:28 PM on December 24, 2005

Do you mean parkour, carterk?
posted by ph00dz at 10:07 PM on December 24, 2005

Huh. I thought of this kind of urban gaming. Must...have...clarification...
posted by mediareport at 10:16 PM on December 24, 2005

This made me think you were referring to this
article in the NYT about freerunning.
posted by ig at 10:32 PM on December 24, 2005

Huh. I thought of this kind of urban gaming. Must...have...clarification...

exactly that type of urban gaming (I helped with that HSW article, btw)

The freerunning/parkour stuff is in the right neighborhood, but not the right address. I gather from multiple recollection that this was about games like pacmanhattan, et al.
posted by cloudscratcher at 7:49 AM on December 25, 2005

Are you sure it was the NYT?
posted by mediareport at 8:20 AM on December 25, 2005

The Toronto Star had an article . Maybe this article can give you a more helpful search term. Or hopefully it has the information you need.
posted by stuart_s at 8:24 AM on December 25, 2005