A meetup of Moroccan soccer fanatics at a historic Astoria baseball field roared to life with fireworks and flares on Tuesday evening, sending pink smoke wafting toward Manhattan.

The group of around 20 people unfurled a massive banner in sections, which was assembled to depict the logo of Ultras Winners 2005, a supporters group for the Casablanca-based Wydad Athletic Club. Neighbors who shared videos of the meetup on Reddit said some in the group had a brief fistfight. Then came the pyrotechnics.

“ It looked like a bomb was going off,” said Neil Herdan, cochair of Friends of Whitey Ford Field. He said he learned of the celebration from a local dog owners' group and alerted the parks department and NYPD. “There were fireworks and flares, flare guns.”

The shockwaves from the exploding fi

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