City confirms plans to demolish Stadium
As of the end of June, plans are still in place to level Yankee Stadium after the season. Excerpt below and full article here.
“Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe confirmed the city’s plans to level the entire stadium to make way for three community ballfields.
“Preserving the facade would make it difficult to maximize the park space,” said Benepe.
After the city gave about two dozen acres of nearby parkland to the Yankees organization for a new stadium and retail complex, Parks was obligated by law to find the same amount of space in the area to build replacement parks.
In the crowded southwest Bronx, however, Parks has struggled to match the parkland it forfeited to the richest franchise in sports, even resorting to putting new recreation facilities on the roofs of parking garages being built for the stadium.”
3 Comments to City confirms plans to demolish Stadium
All one can say is…yeah,…sure…
There is no reason whatsoever that the facade, and some seats cannot be saved, lower section, dugout to dugout…if done the right way, it would be a plus for the bronx, the preservation of the original 1923 section of the Stadium. To just tear it all down would be a crime. They are doing this in Detroit, saving the original section of Tiger Stadium, “Navin Field” for use as a museum and sports facility
This is Yankee Stadium, an icon. …once its gone, its gone forever
August 25, 2008
I have no problem with them turning the area into park space, but they should preserve the foulpole-to-foulpole field and parts of the shell. There’s no reason they can’t integrate the facade and the Yankee Stadium sign into the park.
August 25, 2008
It would be great to save some of the old stadium. Just the lower level, from dug out to dugout would be fine.
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August 25, 2008