June 6, 200719 yr the stadium is falling apart because 3/4 of it IS the original stadium. when they remodeled in the 70s they only tore off 1/3rd of the top deck and added 12 rows new to the roof and tore off the bottom of the field level so they could lower the field....otherwise the ramps, concourses and even the middle deck IS the original stadium...when iI was about 15 I was taken inside the stadium (march of 76) and I personally saw them installing the blue panelling of the middle deck directly over the white metal of the old stadium.....so I know that the majority of YS dates back to 1922....geez its time to go
August 14, 200718 yr http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseball/met...53.story?page=1 PROGRESS REPORT THE NEW STADIUMS BY STEVE ZIPAY | steve.zipay@newsday.com August 12, 2007 On a steamy day a year ago this week - the anniversary of Babe Ruth's passing - a chorus line of Yankees brass and politicians posed with bat-handled shovels to turn the symbolic soil in Macombs Dam Park for the proposed $800-million successor to the stadium known as The House That Ruth Built. A few weeks earlier, about six miles south in a Shea Stadium parking lot, the initial construction work on a $700-million ballpark designed to evoke memories of Ebbets Field already had begun, with far less fanfare. For these projects, which will reshape the baseball landscape in New York City, what a difference a year has made. As summer spins to fall and the Yankees and Mets contend for postseason berths in their aging homes (Shea opened in 1964 and Yankee Stadium was rebuilt for the 1976 season), fans will continue to see their teams' new digs rising rapidly nearby. Executives involved in the massive undertakings firmly expect them to be ready for the 2009 home openers. "We're a long way from where we were," said Valerie Peltier, a managing director of Tishman Speyer Properties, which is overseeing the development of the massive new Yankee Stadium. It will embrace up to 53,000 fans, many of whom will enter through a Great Hall with soaring ceilings and cathedral windows. "The superstructure, the steel and concrete that's been poured in place, is about 85 percent complete. By the end of the year, the full project will be about halfway done. For the Yankees, the end of the year is November, right? When they stop playing?" Peltier said confidently last week. "So by mid-November, you will be able to see the entire skeleton, including the upper deck of the building; the whole geometry of what this building is going to look like will be done. We are absolutely on schedule." So, too, is the Mets' project, dubbed Citi Field, which will hold 47,000 in its dark green seats and in 54 state-of-the-art suites, 10 of which will be 18 rows from the natural grass. At Willets Point, five orange cranes bend over the site like graceful giraffes. Four light towers in rightfield are in place, as is one of the stair towers. Behind where home plate will be placed curves the C-shaped framework of the entrance rotunda that will be named for Jackie Robinson. "The main concourse is done," said Mets chief operating officer Jeff Wilpon, a real estate veteran, referring to the 40-foot open walkway that will ring the stadium and provide field views from almost all points. Aisles and walkways are visible, and "right around the beginning of November, we should be done with the superstructure steel. Obviously, to get the steel done before December is desirable." A wrap of precast red brick facade is being installed not only around the ballpark but on the second level of the building that will house the Mets' offices. It is expected to be completed within a few months. "One of the big stair towers is in," Wilpon said, "and the others by September." The centerfield scoreboard steel supports are set; steel columns extend down the baselines into the outfield. And things the casual observer doesn't see are there: the Con Ed vaults, the stalwart foundations. Over in the Bronx, a key element of the new park is en route. "In a couple of weeks, you'll start to see the arrival of the huge concrete inserts for the cathedral windows, giant 40-foot-tall pieces of architectural precast and limestone along Jerome Avenue and down 161st Street," Peltier said. "We've already started that work on River Avenue. That's going like gangbusters." More than 1,000 workers are toiling at the sprawling site. "You lose sight of that sometimes," she said. "When people leave at the end of the day, it's like people coming off a cruise ship." The re-imaging of the aging ballparks will alter the field dimensions in Queens, but not in the Bronx. The Yankees, who want to replicate some facets of the existing stadium, say the distance to the fences will remain the same. The Mets want a pitcher-friendly park like Shea; the right- and left-center alleys will be 8 to 12 feet deeper, the distance down the lines will be 3 to 8 feet shorter; the deepest part of centerfield will be 408 feet, not 410. Because each franchise is financing the construction - the city and state are providing tens of millions for site preparation, parking, parkland and some mass transit improvements - they aim to finish on time. In the harsher winter months, work will continue on each site, especially in enclosed spaces, according to both executives. "Bathrooms and lights and ceilings, that'll be early next year," Peltier said. At Citi Field - the naming rights were sold to Citigroup in a 20-year, $400-million marketing deal - the target date to complete the major work is the end of next year, which will allow four months to tidy up before the first pitch is thrown in April 2009. "And I'd like to be out of our offices before they start demolishing Shea," he said with a laugh. "The banging will be too much." Wilpon, whose family firm has helped guide midtown Manhattan projects such as Bear Stearns' corporate headquarters, the octagonal tower completed in 2001 that includes eight trading floors, said stadiums and skyscrapers pose different challenges but demand the same attention. During the Mets' last trip to Milwaukee and Chicago, Wilpon - who traveled with the team - wasn't far from his laptop, where three special webcams at Citi Field provided him looks at the job in progress. "I'm very much in the mix," he said. "If I see something's not happening, I'll make a call." NEW YANKEE STADIUM Location: Just north of current park Groundbreaking: August 2006 Cost: $800 million Capacity: 53,000 Suites: 67 Design highlights: Great Hall, roof latticework, copper frieze Architect: HOK Sport Construction firm: Turner Opening: April 2009 CITI FIELD Location: In Shea's leftfield parking lot Groundbreaking: November 2006 Cost: $700 million Capacity: 45,000 Suites: 54 Design highlights: Jackie Robinson rotunda, sweeping concourse, wider seats angled toward field Architect: HOK Sport Construction firm: Hunt-Bovis Opening: April 2009
September 13, 200718 yr http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/base....sendoffs.0141/ Dates, opponents set for regular-season finales at Yankee and Shea stadiums Posted: Wednesday Sep 12, 2007 7:46 PM NEW YORK (AP) -Yankee Stadium is set to host its final regular-season game on Sept. 21, 2008, with New York playing Baltimore. Shea Stadium will hold its regular-season wrapup a week later, on Sept. 28 against Florida. The Yankees and Mets recently received schedule drafts for the 2008 season from the commissioner's office. The Yankees also will host the All-Star game. Both New York teams are moving into new ballparks in 2009. Yankee Stadium opened in 1923. The new $1 billion ballpark is built across the street and will keep the same name. Shea opened in 1964. The $800 million Citi Field is being built in the parking lot beyond Shea's center-field wall. Fancy new stadiums may wall out fans
September 13, 200718 yr Their new stadiums look real nice from the pics that I saw, hopefully we can be lucky enough to get one for our fish
September 13, 200718 yr It is painful as a Marlin fan to hear this Let's get our stadium situation settled already
September 13, 200718 yr It will be exciting for two or three years. I don't know. I have very mixed emotions about the whole thing from a Yankee perspective. There's a whole lot of history that is going to be transplanted. I don't think it will work.
September 13, 200718 yr It will be exciting for two or three years. I don't know. I have very mixed emotions about the whole thing from a Yankee perspective. There's a whole lot of history that is going to be transplanted. I don't think it will work. Seconded. Although, the sight lines from a Yankee stadium suite are so bad for many fly-balls that I can fully understand the need for an upgrade...but I don't agree with throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
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February 8, 200818 yr I'm going to New York during the summer to see Shea and Yankee Stadium. Should be fun.
February 8, 200818 yr I'm going to New York during the summer to see Shea and Yankee Stadium. Should be fun. Save yourself the money, stick your head in a toilet bowl and smell. As for Yankee stadium, have someone spit and throw stuff at you while your head is in said toilet bowl (actually I've been once and monument park is mildly interesting -- the stadium itslef is pretty crummy).
February 8, 200818 yr New Yankee Satdium looks incredable.... I'll be going to N.Y. in May to see The House That Ruth Built for the last time... Its gonna be sad to see it go but i'm really excited about the new place...
February 8, 200818 yr Those photos are amazing! I went to Yankee Stadium last July and the new stadium looked nothing like that! Its crazy how so little time it takes for these guys to get a start of the art stadium up
February 8, 200818 yr I'm going to New York during the summer to see Shea and Yankee Stadium. Should be fun. Save yourself the money, stick your head in a toilet bowl and smell. As for Yankee stadium, have someone spit and throw stuff at you while your head is in said toilet bowl (actually I've been once and monument park is mildly interesting -- the stadium itslef is pretty crummy). It's not about the building, it's about the experience....wait...30,000 Met fans....sh*t, I haven't thought this through fully.
February 9, 200818 yr It's not about the building, it's about the experience....wait...30,000 Met fans....sh*t, I haven't thought this through fully. 09/30/07
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March 24, 200818 yr I haven;t been to shea since 95 and YS since 96, but I am going up for the last game at YS ( got tix thru stubhub)....had to go back because i went to the first game after the renovation in 76, so for me its full circle... if you can go, then go....its history guys, something every fan should see once, like fenway and wrigley....... the neighborhood is fine because on game days there is a big police presence, I wouldn;t want to wander around on a non game day tho..... being a former bronx resident, the new stadium will do nothing for the area, its shot....... it is what it is
April 4, 200818 yr You can look them up yourselves, but here are some links to the most recent galleries of the new Yankee and Shea stadia going up, from just this week: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14504460@N02/...57604352609067/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/25298694@N03/...57604375553229/
May 4, 200818 yr "The love of the game and this city is in my DNA," Wilpon said. "I've lived here all my life. People have asked me why I am building a smaller stadium . I didn't build a smaller stadium to make money. I'm doing it because that is the way to give fans the best experience of being close, like in Ebbets Field." http://www.newsday.com/services/newspaper/...0,3897483.story http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee98/citi_field/Citi%20Field%202/CitiFieldConstruction2008-05-03024.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee98/citi_field/Citi%20Field%202/CitiFieldConstruction2008-05-03025.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee98/citi_field/Citi%20Field%202/CitiFieldConstruction2008-05-03050.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee98/citi_field/Citi%20Field%202/CitiFieldConstruction2008-05-03051.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee98/citi_field/Citi%20Field%202/CitiFieldConstruction2008-05-03058.jpg http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee98/citi_field/Citi%20Field%202/CitiFieldConstruction2008-05-03005.jpg
May 6, 200818 yr I'm going to New York during the summer to see Shea and Yankee Stadium. Should be fun. Save yourself the money, stick your head in a toilet bowl and smell. As for Yankee stadium, have someone spit and throw stuff at you while your head is in said toilet bowl (actually I've been once and monument park is mildly interesting -- the stadium itslef is pretty crummy). It's not about the building, it's about the experience....wait...30,000 Met fans....sh*t, I haven't thought this through fully. Yup, i'll be in NY this summer as well
July 13, 200817 yr Two new article on the new stadiums in New York from the Sun-Sentinel: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/other/s...0,6612683.story http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/other/s...0,7638253.story You could also check out the links to the latest pics of Yankee and Citi: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/other/n...54.photogallery http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/other/n...98.photogallery http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5126/attachmentlv1.jpg http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/3254/attachmentwm4.jpg http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/3816/attachmentmr4.jpg http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/7195/attachmentkh2.jpg Here are a some very good pics of the new Yankee Stadium model that was shown at the All-Star Fan Fest yesterday. Credit Gary Dunaier for these: http://www.flickr.com/photos/14504460@N02/...57606132821958/
July 13, 200817 yr great photos. I got to go see Citi field when I was in Queens a month ago and its just a great park. It screams baseball and i love it. Yankee stadium looks to epic to me. But I really hate the yankees.
July 15, 200817 yr I would like anyone to guess which one of these will be finished first... Is it this one... Or is it this one... You decide.
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