HENGE in the Media
NYC Parks Dep't Plans for New Park, by Mary Johnson, DNAinfo.com, 10.5.2012
The Joys of Ping-Pong in the Open, by Ariel Kaminer, The New York Times, 3.27.2011
Ping Pong in the Park, by Kathryn Kattalia, New York Times/NYU: The Local East Village, 3.25.2011
The Little White Ball Obsession That Isn't Golf, by Thomas Lin, New York Times, slide show, 6.2.2011
Mayor Denny Doyle to unveil outdoor ping pong tables at Beaverton City Park, by City of Beaverton, BlogOregonLive, 9.13.2011
Paddle Tales, by Kirsten Fleming and Alisa Wolfson, New York Post, 4.16.2011
New York City's Public Parks Add Ping Pong Tables, by Nate Berg, Planetizen, 4.5.2011
Ping Pong and Planting: Creating Community in Gulick Park, by Kim Gledhill, The Lo-Down, 3.31.2011
Tompkins Square Park Gets Ping-Pong Table Made of Stone, by Aleks Segal, 3.21.2011
New Ping Pong Table Unveiled in Tompkins Square Park, by Patrick Hedlund, DNAinfo, 3.20.2011
Table Tennis Now A Permanent Part of Tompkins Square Park, by Grieve, 3.19.2011
Ping Pong Stars Rumored to Attend Unveiling of Table in Tompkins Square Park, by Patrick Hedlund, DNAinfo, 3.18.2011
Outdoor Ping Pong Coming to Tompkins Square Park, by Table Tennis Nation, 3.11.2011
Tompkins Tough?, by Cynthia Romero, The Villager, 8.19.2010
Outdoor Ping Pong on the Table for East Village's Tompkins Square Park, Patrick Hedlund, DNAinfo, 8.2.2010.
Ping Pong On The Playground, by Paige, PlaygroundDesigns.blogspot.com, 7.9.2010
Weekly Chatter, by Gary Howe, MyWheelsAreTurning.com, 7.16.2010
Gulick Park, Now With a Concrete Ping Pong Table, Grand Street News, 6.2010
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Table Tennis in New York City
Roosevelt Island Table Tennis, George Braithwaite
Pong and the LES Cup, at Grand Opening, Ben Smyth
SPiN, Susan Sarandon, Jonathan Bricklin, et al
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Table Tennis in the Media
For Alzheimer's and dementia patients, pingpong is a game — and therapy, by Eric Spitznagel, BusinessWeek, 5.5.2011
Ping Pong Goes Corporate, by Eric Spitznagel, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 5.4.2011
Table tennis titan George 'The Chief' Braithwaite brings tournament to Roosevelt Island, by Clare Trapasso, 2.4.11
Pingpong therapy brings net gains to Alzheimer’s patients, by Rachel Heller, Jewish Journal, 1.25.2011
Back and Forth Sport is Back Again by Ravi Somaiya, New York Times, 11.26.2008
Back to the Basement, by Nancy Franklin, New Yorker Magazine, 2.17.2003
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Ping Pong Diplomacy: Fortieth Anniversary
Connie Sweeris, Ping Pong Diplomat, by Jeff Campagna, Smithsonian Magazine, 3.21.2011
Table tennis titan George 'The Chief' Braithwaite brings tournament to Roosevelt Island, by Clare Trapasso, 2.4.2011
George Braithwaite:A Ping-Pong Diplomat Back at the Table, City Room: New York Times Video, 3.2.2010
Ping Pong Diplomacy, World News Network--compilation of news videos.
Table Tennis and Health: The Sport for All; Table Tennis Not Only Healthy, Also Therapeutic, Ian Marshal, ITTF News, 1.31.2011
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Table Tennis in Literature
'The Mighty Walzer,' Ping Pong Wizard (Of Sorts), by Harold Jacobson, radio interview by Scott Simon, Weekend Edition, NPR, 4.2.2011
Everything You Know Is Pong: How Mighty Table Tennis Shapes Our World, by Roger Bennett, !t Books, 2010
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The Scene Abroad
Dr. Pong, East Berlin's bar life meets table tennis—in the round. Proprietor is American Oliver Miller