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Take the Field The Intro Rebuilding Athletic Facilities A publicprivate partnership between three New Yorkers and the City of New York to rebuild public high school athletic fieldsenjoyed by over 200000 students and neighborhood residents annuallythroughout the five boroughs. Learn More Between 1974 and 1999 spending on sports programs throughout the five boroughs of New York City radically declined. It sounds like a joke but it was a fact that many school teams had annual budgets of about 100 eachan amount insufficient to cover the cost of one football helmet. In 2000 the year Take the Field was founded the New York City Department of Education allocated less than 1 of its budget to sports education for grades K12.