Lyndhurst Rec Center

Looking in at the main field at Lyndhurst Recreation Center from beyond the first-base bullpen, Apr-2010.

Beyond left field is an indoor recreation building (the white building in the left of the photo).

The view from behind home plate just after sunset. Everything is artificial turf except the plate and the mound.

• Location: Valley Brook and Polito avenues, Lyndhurst, N.J.
• Opened: 2009
• Home team: Felician University Golden Falcons, Central Atlantic College Conference; Lyndhurst High School Golden Bears, North Jersey Interscholastic Conference
• Capacity: 300 seated

This complex, located at the base of the Valley Brook Avenue hill between the road and the Lackawanna Main Line, includes three large artificial turf fields. All can be used for soccer, but only one, the farthest east, is specifically dedicated to that sport. The others can be used for baseball and softball. The middle field plays to standard dimensions and has a clay pitcher’s mound and home plate area, while the westernmost field is laid out to softball or youth baseball dimensions.

Lyndhurst High School, which had played their home games at Matera Field at Marin Oval for a quarter-century, relocated to the new recreation complex in 2009. Felician College (now University), which played several seasons at Breslin Stadium across town, followed the Golden Bears to the new field in 2010.