NEW YORK | Yankee Stadium Demoltion/Heritage Park
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as posted by nyguy in the new yankee stadium construction thread here is whats planned for the land that old yankee stadium sits on which will become heritage park.
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It will take a while to get this down, about a year and a half I believe (from the planning).
But the neighborhood awaits the park space that was lost, so it's time for the stadium to go....:( Keep in mind that the lost facilities aren't being rebuilt as on the stadium site itself, but around it. Here's a look at the some of the Macombs Dam Park space lost for the new Yankee Stadium from Gary Dunaier. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3374/...c53f2411_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3502/...5341c6aa_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3427/...68e603c2_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3453/...49da5b8a_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3408/...fb150857_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3106/...dc1aea3d_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3349/...9bcc4cc2_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3332/...85a5b650_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3495/...7184be65_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3298/...c4cee3f6_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3121/...b3c3fdc4_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3118/...83bc2d36_b.jpg |
The new Yankee Stadium, as seen from some of the new park facilities...
This is the new, temporary track, from Bronx170 http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3632/...bab734b7_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3413/...cb541432_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3356/...f411a8c1_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3542/...b1a4cde3_b.jpg http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3634/...effef548_o.jpg |
http://www.lonelypamphleteer.com/
The “Deconstruction” of Yankee Stadium Begins APRIL 1, 2009 -- Representatives of the New York City Department of Parks briefed a community meeting in The Bronx, March 25, on the progress of development on the site of Yankee Stadium and the immediate vicinity. Renderings of development plans were screened at the meeting and images, taken by LPR of these renderings accompany this report. Yankee Stadium is to be “deconstructed” (the term used by the Parks Department), by June, next year, and replaced by “Heritage Field, ” The renderings indicate that no part of Yankee Stadium will remain standing. “Deconstruction” began that day – March 25 – one Parks Department representative said at the meeting, and he noted that “demolition” methods will not be used. (LPR can understand why the term “dismantled” was not used, as well.) Apparently Yankee Stadium will be taken down – respectfully. This thought is, admittedly, fanciful, but LPR has a notion that Babe Ruth and all the Yankees of the past who constructed the team’s heritage are not amused. Yankee Stadium coming down; Freedom Tower – now to be called One World Center --going up – at the site of Ground Zero: Expressions, perhaps, of the spirit of the New York establishment:: “Moving ahead without sentiment.” http://www.lonelypamphleteer.com/sto...new-looklg.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/111118463/original.jpg |
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i don't know why we can't have some part of yankee stadium left over. at least with the polo grounds they have the staircase. it will be sad that their will be nothing left of the place that the stadium that most legendary player in baseball played in.:whatthefuck: i've run across this rendering and i personally would love if they would do this. http://i44.tinypic.com/qyz41z.jpg http://baseball-fever.com/showpost.p...&postcount=838 |
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http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...ew_fields.html
Bronx kids still waiting for new fields http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/st...r_gonzalez.jpg April 10th 2009 The baseball season officially begins next week for All Hallows High School - a wonderful Bronx Catholic school in the shadows of the new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium. The varsity team's home opener will be against Iona Prep on Wednesday, but the game will not be played in the Bronx. It will not kick off a few blocks away at Babe Ruth field in Macombs Dam Park, where All Hallows played all its home games for so many decades. Babe Ruth field is gone. All Hallows, which opened its doors on E. 164th St. 80 years ago, and which every year graduates virtually all of its students and sends them on to college, is suffering through its third consecutive year of its sports teams being homeless. So are the track and soccer teams. So are teams at many other neighborhood schools. Next week, All Hallows will "host" the visiting Iona team on Iona's field up in New Rochelle. For this scandalous state of affairs, we can all thank the legendary Yankees organization and the Department of Parks. Both have failed to address the problem they created for neighborhood kids when they grabbed 22 acres of public parkland to make way for the new stadium and its assorted parking garages. If you go to the All Hallows Web site, you will find the letters "TBA" (to be announced) as the site for most baseball home games this spring. Back in 2006, when the City Council approved the stadium plan, the Parks Department assured neighborhood residents that temporary alternate fields would be provided. It said new replacement parks, including a new running track, would be built quickly, some to open as early as this summer. The Yankees even promised $800,000 a year for the community and its sports teams. The past three years have been a nightmare for the school's sports programs to pin down sites for their home contests, Principal Sean Sullivan said. "I can get an answer from the Pope in Rome faster than I can from the Parks Department," said Sullivan, who doubles as assistant baseball coach. Only a few days ago, the Parks Department finally offered the baseball team a rundown field at Pelham Bay Park - a 40-minute trip to the other side of the Bronx. "The field looks like a lunar landscape," Sullivan said. "When I'm standing in the third base coaching box, I can't see my shortstop completely because he's playing in a ditch." To accomplish all this additional traveling for the varsity and JV teams, even for practices, the school has been forced to buy two small buses and order a third. The total cost, says school President Paul Krebbs, has been more than $100,000. Krebbs figured that since the new stadium made them homeless, the Yankees should help bear the school's additional cost. He applied for a $40,000 grant from the Yankees Community Foundation to pay for one bus. That amounts to less than one inning's pay for CC Sabathia. "We were rejected," Krebbs said. "They told us they don't pay for vehicles." The Yankees did give the school a huge second-hand pitching machine from the old stadium, but it's far too big to be used indoors - and there's no way to get it to Pelham Bay Park. So what about the new baseball fields that were supposed to replace the ones the neighborhood lost? Well, the construction cost has since skyrocketed, and the city has set back the openings until 2011. That's because most of the fields will be on the site of the old Stadium, which is still standing. No one has explained how the Mets managed to tear down Shea Stadium as soon as the season ended, but demolition of old Yankee Stadium hasn't even begun. Somehow, the new stadium has opened on time, the Yankee garages are on schedule and the new Metro-North station is done. Only when it comes to replacing the community's lost parkland are huge delays acceptable to the Yankees and Mayor Bloomberg's people. After all, its just thousands of poor blacks and Hispanics who will suffer. There are student athletes at All Hallows who will go through all four years of high school being treated like gypsies by their city and the big, rich team down the street. What a way to play ball with our kids. |
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other than the fact that shea was a turd there are big differences too. for one the mets need the area that shea occupied for parking spaces and two yankee stadium is surrounded by neighborhood with an elevated subway platform right behind. what did this guys think would happen? they would just blow it up and haul away the debris. this guy really needs to use common sense.
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http://baseball-fever.com/showpost.p...postcount=1095 this picture was taken on 4-10-09 |
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http://baseball-fever.com/attachment...1&d=1239831409 anybody know whats going on at the old stadium? do they have some kind of ceremony going on for opening day? |
hey, what's gonna happen with all the pieces of the old stadium? are they gonna auction them off like when wrigley was renovated?
my cousin is a huge yankees fan, and i'd love to get a piece of the old stadium. could someone pm about the demo remains? |
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More reading on the new parks..
http://www.gothamgazette.com/article...090413/14/2884 Quote:
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loungeflyDE http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3621/...3bd8646b_b.jpg Another look at the grassless stadium... http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3653/...70a882a1_b.jpg |
Construction on the garage-top park...
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