Yankee Stadium [I] Demolition

[Paul W]

"Three and a half years after Mayor Bloomberg closed huge portions of Mullaly and Macombs Dam parks to make way for the Yankees new $1.5 billion stadium, the replacement ballfields the city promised are nowhere to be seen...."

"...while the new community ballfields "should be ready sometime in late 2011..." - that means 2012

4 fields in total gone for at least 3-4 years, you take away the fields and kids won't play the game.

btw - if you don't think that public ballfields in areas like this have any good players on 'em, rod carew was discovered by twins scout herb stein on those fields...

[JohnCropp]

You've got red on you.

[DM23MVP]

"Three and a half years after Mayor Bloomberg closed huge portions of Mullaly and Macombs Dam parks to make way for the Yankees new $1.5 billion stadium, the replacement ballfields the city promised are nowhere to be seen...."

"...while the new community ballfields "should be ready sometime in late 2011..." - that means 2012

4 fields in total gone for at least 3-4 years, you take away the fields and kids won't play the game.

btw - if you don't think that public ballfields in areas like this have any good players on 'em, rod carew was discovered by twins scout herb stein on those fields...

Boo hoo. The poor kids lost a few dirty, disgusting ballfields for a 3 years. Soon they'll have brand new fields that actually have grass, and probably a lot less used condoms and dog crap.

[Strawman]

Boo hoo. The poor kids lost a few dirty, disgusting ballfields for a 3 years. Soon they'll have brand new fields that actually have grass, and probably a lot less used condoms and dog crap.

That's either a shocking lack of concern - or some brilliant satire of Randy Levine.

[threeyoda]

"Three and a half years after Mayor Bloomberg closed huge portions of Mullaly and Macombs Dam parks to make way for the Yankees new $1.5 billion stadium, the replacement ballfields the city promised are nowhere to be seen...."

"...while the new community ballfields "should be ready sometime in late 2011..." - that means 2012

4 fields in total gone for at least 3-4 years, you take away the fields and kids won't play the game.

btw - if you don't think that public ballfields in areas like this have any good players on 'em, rod carew was discovered by twins scout herb stein on those fields...

3 fields. They built a new one where the other parking lot was in that picture. And what would you rather have:

4 dirty, all dirt, no grass, dog crap fields OR 4 brand new, full with grass, state-of-the art fields. The only thing is you have to lose 3 out of the 4 in the old park, and use the other 5 fields in the area until the brand new ones are done in 5 years.

[JohnCropp]

Bottom Line: the stadiums in Queens and East Rutherford will be parking lots before the stadium in the Bronx is a park... and that's some bushwick.

[threeyoda]

Bottom Line: the stadiums in Queens and East Rutherford will be parking lots before the stadium in the Bronx is a park... and that's some bushwick.

I completely agree

[Paul W]

Boo hoo. The poor kids lost a few dirty, disgusting ballfields for a 3 years. Soon they'll have brand new fields that actually have grass, and probably a lot less used condoms and dog crap.

doubt that you would like this type of b.s. if it way your fields missing for years! if you actually ever played the game, i still do...

[scooterfan]

Boo hoo. The poor kids lost a few dirty, disgusting ballfields for a 3 years. Soon they'll have brand new fields that actually have grass, and probably a lot less used condoms and dog crap.

These comments are breathtakingly elitist and beyond revolting. These kids and young adults who utilized these fields, basketball and handball courts would take the old set-up in a New York heartbeat.

These "dirty, disgusting ballfields" should have been improved years and years ago, but high level Yankee executives were too busy calling the people who used them "monkeys." For years all the Yankees did was post "We Care" signs when we all know they should have been doing so much more!!!

[410 FT]

Is there anything in particular we should be looking for(to photograph),as the Stadium is taken down? Is there any old photos to show a structure or section that hasn't been seen in years that will soon be revealed and quickly removed?

[Gary Dunaier]

Right field bleachers to center field (158th St) back wall completely gone.

Just to clarify... are you saying the ENTIRE wall to the right of the Diamond Vision is gone? (The now-removed Budweiser ad, the Bank of America ad and the sweet little UTZ girl?)


(Photo taken February 15, 2010. © Gary Dunaier. Link to upload on Flickr.com: here.)

It's no longer just the tiny sliver that was gone on the 16th?

[tugger]

You've got red on you.

Yeah, boyyyeee!

[The Korean]

doubt that you would like this type of b.s. if it way your fields missing for years! if you actually ever played the game, i still do...

Most inner city kids in Bronx and such dont play baseball. So....yea.

[NYaDiO]

Most inner city kids in Bronx and such dont play baseball. So....yea.

This is untrue I know a lot of kids that still play baseball myself being one of these kids who played. And we had to play in the streets because there have not been any field since the start of the new Stadium. Don't get m wrong I love the ne Stadium, but as someone said we would take those fields in a New York heartbeat. And if kids don't play baseball much these days its because where do we play with no fields or anything for 3 years? "If you build it they will come." Well guess what we've had nothing to go to for 3 and a half years. I used to play on those fields when I was 13 I was pretty good to but after not having a field so long you lose hope you know. By the way I'm 18 now when construction started I was 15. With that out of the way, nice pics guys. I want to go down and catch a few snapshots but this damn cold weather just makes me hide haha.

[mandrake]

Demolition scheduled to be finished by June ?????

From the daily news:

Many of these will open this spring, David Lombino, a spokesman for the city's Economic Development Corp. said Tuesday.

As for the baseball and little league fields, any work on them will have to wait until the old stadium comes down.

"Demolition should be finished by June," Lombino said, while the new community ballfields "should be ready sometime in late 2011."

If Lombino is right, those baseball fields will finally be replaced more than five years after the original ones were taken away from the youth of the community.

Somehow, Yankee Stadium was built on schedule. So were the huge parking garages around it. So was the new Metro-North station.

Only the replacement parks for the community have suffered these delays. As for the politicians in the Bronx, they must all be waiting for their Yankees tickets.

[email protected]

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...#ixzz0ftVmHhxM