Yankee Stadium [I] Demolition

[Rob R]

sure, if you want to see a kid who looks like groucho marx...

hahaha. In that clip, he kinda ran like Groucho too, crossing River Ave to the Stadium.

[JohnCropp]

The classic 1923 opening day photo compared to last Saturday....closest I could get to the original vantage point without being run over in the middle of the street.

How'd you get the cars to pose like that?

[cgcoyne2]

They should take all the steel from Real Yankee Stadium and melt it down to make a battleship called the U.S.S Super Cool Awesome and sail it into the Persian Gulf to kick some A$$!

It's in the works but it'll be named the U.S.S. Steinbrenner.

[410 FT]

Miserable day 12:30 PM
Observed that the hole to the right of Gate 2
has been enlarged(7:30 PM).Earlier in the day, 8:45 AM ,a
grapler was pulling plaster out of The Gate.
I stopped and filmed a two minute video of it that was
unremarkable,so I left it on photobucket without placing it
on YouTube.
First two photos taken at night 7:30 PM:




You would think the rain would encourage the upper deck
to be brought down.Severe lack of dust. But it was cancelled.


This photo ended up overall looking better than I expected for just sticking the camera out the window of the subways stairs. I took this one as I was leaving because I noticed a worker urinating in right center field behind the tractor.


A lot of people were here today,with better cameras
so that+ rain=mood shots for me. There was an artist on the platform who thinks they're
a painter,but I could have done better with the brush held with my toes(not pictured).

[cgcoyne2]

I would make gate 2 more profitable, ie: Old Yankee Stadium Restaurant/sports pub on the ground floor, Old Yankee Stadium Souvenir/Sports Shop, Yankees museum...that kind of thing on the upper floors. I'd also keep the back atrium facing the baseball field so that it can be viewed from these retail spots. All in all, gate 2 can be preserved while its space leased out to sports (or baseball) related retail and the city can collect its taxes & make money too. Has anyone thought of it in that sense?

Call it Stan's Gate 2 New Yankee Stadium. Whaddyasay?

[cgcoyne2]

I've often thought an upper deck, lodge, grandstands and bleachers made a stadium look much bigger. I really believe this. And I believe in ghosts.

You don't say?

[Rob R]

How'd you get the cars to pose like that?

Biscuits. .........

[The Monument]

Just got this info--remaining UD sections coming down today, Wed and Thursday. I'll probably go Thurs to see the last sect come down. Gate 2 demo scheduled for next week, possibly Monday. I'll be in Fla but I know that many of you will be present with cameras in hand. Can someone get there with a vidcam {not cell phone video}? I saw the Save Gate 2 article in today's NY Daily News. In my Suffolk County edition it was tucked away in the Queens News section. More conspiracy. When the absolute, final piece comes down we should all be there, like a bunch of the guys did for Shea.

[Maxlugar]

I have an eSmog Scout Pro EVP. Should I bring it up there next week?

[Gary Dunaier]

I took this one as I was leaving because I noticed a worker urinating in right center field behind the tractor.

Must be a Mets fan! Or maybe it was Lonn Trost?

There was an artist on the platform who thinks they're a painter,but I could have done better with the brush held with my toes(not pictured).

Was it a female? Because there was a girl artist on the platform Friday, wonder if it was the same person.

[Maas_Pasqua_Pags]

Just got this info--remaining UD sections coming down today, Wed and Thursday. I'll probably go Thurs to see the last sect come down. Gate 2 demo scheduled for next week, possibly Monday. I'll be in Fla but I know that many of you will be present with cameras in hand. Can someone get there with a vidcam {not cell phone video}? I saw the Save Gate 2 article in today's NY Daily News. In my Suffolk County edition it was tucked away in the Queens News section. More conspiracy. When the absolute, final piece comes down we should all be there, like a bunch of the guys did for Shea.

How about we chain ourselves to Gate 2 and force the demolition to start in RF................

[JoeDOYS]

[QUOTE=410 FT;1707926]
This photo ended up overall looking better than I expected for just sticking the camera out the window of the subways stairs. I took this one as I was leaving because I noticed a worker urinating in right center field behind the tractor.


What a dirtbag.

I captioned my post on this. How dare this guy pee on the field.

[Mike Wagner]

He's really PISSED OFF about the job because nothing of the Stadium is supposed to be left standing.

-Mike Wagner

[YankeeStadium1923]

Just got this info--remaining UD sections coming down today, Wed and Thursday. I'll probably go Thurs to see the last sect come down. Gate 2 demo scheduled for next week, possibly Monday. I'll be in Fla but I know that many of you will be present with cameras in hand. Can someone get there with a vidcam {not cell phone video}? I saw the Save Gate 2 article in today's NY Daily News. In my Suffolk County edition it was tucked away in the Queens News section. More conspiracy. When the absolute, final piece comes down we should all be there, like a bunch of the guys did for Shea.

I did a quick search on the Daily News web site and found nothing.....

Anychance you have the link?

I agree with meeting to watch the final piece come down.

[doctor_gogol]

How'd you get the cars to pose like that?

I think they're drugged before hand. You usually can't get cars to sit still for a picture.

[doctor_gogol]

I took this one as I was leaving because I noticed a worker urinating in right center field behind the tractor

I bet that isn't the 1st time someone peed in the outfield. Knowing Ruth's and Mantle's drinking histories, I bet it happened more than once.

[410 FT]

Gary,the same person. Hope she's not part of the Forum.
Joe,what's really remarkable is that there are port-a-potties all around for their use, couple that with the fact that they know by now there is on average at least 2-5 people taking pictures and video from all angles throughout the day.

Extra photo from yesterday:

[orioles667083]

The classic 1923 opening day photo compared to last Saturday....closest I could get to the original vantage point without being run over in the middle of the street.

Can we turn back the clock?

[YankeeDean]

Wow. Two more days and the whole upper deck will be gone. I keep saying wow. A while back I wondered why Bloomberg, who I voted for and support, since he still has some Boston carpetbagger history sticking to him (gasp! was he a Red Sox fan?), couldn't make a grand yet relatively inexpensive gesture to his adopted city by picking up the tab on saving gate 2.

[locke40]

Here some of my iPhone pictures from yesterday (3.22.10). I didn't see anyone from baseball-fever there; the weather was terrible and drizzly.

[quagmire]

The more I think about it, the happier I am that we bought tickets to go to NYS after the demo of OYS is supposed to be done. Could not imagine actually seeing it down to its last pieces of concrete in person. Would be too gut wrenching....

[Maas_Pasqua_Pags]

Any pictures from today? Did another section go wayward?

[The Monument]

Two sections should have fallen today. I'm going thurs to see last Tier sect fall. I don't have the link to the DN Gate 2 article. I'm sure it will be on the SaveGate2 site soon. When we do meet for the last wall down, perhaps a toast after that at Stan's? Or the Yankee Tavern? Then we'll follow the dump truck from the site and grab ourselves some souvenirs.

[Strawman]

Or maybe it was Lonn Trost?

Gives a whole new meaning to the word "moat."

[DN4L]

When we do meet for the last wall down, perhaps a toast after that at Stan's? Or the Yankee Tavern? Then we'll follow the dump truck from the site and grab ourselves some souvenirs.

How about having the toast at the Hard Rock, inside NYS?