Mamdani’s campaign for cheap World Cup tickets delivers 1,000 for city of 8 million
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced the availability of 1,000 discounted World Cup tickets for local residents. The tickets, priced at $50 each, will be distributed through a lottery system starting May 25. This initiative aims to ensure that working-class New Yorkers can afford to attend the games, countering the high prices set by FIFA.
- ▪1,000 tickets will be available for New York City residents at a cost of $50 each.
- ▪The tickets will include free roundtrip bus transportation to the MetLife Stadium.
- ▪Distribution will occur via a lottery starting May 25, with measures in place to prevent scalping.
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- ▪ Soccer-New York City offering $50 World Cup tickets for residents — Investing.com — News
- ▪ Mamdani announces 1,000 $50 World Cup tickets for New Yorkers — New York Post
- ▪ Mamdani announces $50 World Cup ticket lottery for New York City residents — NBC News — World
- ▪ New York City residents will get a chance to purchase $50 World Cup tickets — ABC News — Politics
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Some lucky New York City residents will soon get a chance to snag cheap seats to this summer’s high-priced World Cup.Recommended Video Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Thursday that 1,000 tickets costing $50 will be made available to residents of the city of more than 8 million for the most watched sporting event in the world. “To put that into perspective, that is five lattes in New York City,” Mamdani quipped from a bar in Harlem’s Little Senegal neighborhood alongside U.S. men’s national team forward Timothy Weah. About 150 tickets per game will be made available for seven of the eight matches played at the roughly 82,000-seat MetLife Stadium, located across the river from Manhattan in New Jersey.
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