Comments on: Save Yankee Stadium?

By: TRUTH

TRUTH — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:37:34 +0000

Anyone that knows the first thing about landmark criteria, knows that Yankee Stadium is worthy of landmark status. It is the greatest arena since the Roman Coliseum. Greed, ego, and corruption, are the real reasons the Stadium has not been landmarked. The Bronx just nationally landmarked an affordable housing complex, because it had ONE party in 1975, that had early hip-hop-type music. I kid you not: Google it up (“Bronx Hip Hop Preservation Pete Shaver”.)

Does anybody really believe Yankee Stadium is less historically and architecturally significant than a totally non-descript affordable housing comlex that had early hip- hop-type music? Nah. It’s all about destroying the Stadium and legends – first and foremost Ruth – that Steinbrenner could never surpass. … Oh yeah, and they can sell this so-called “non-historical” Stadium, piece-by-piece, in the largest plundering since the British found King Tut.

When Bloomberg and the Yankees announced their plans for the new Stadium, they specifically said the old one would be saved, with the interio dedicated to recreation for the local community. They deliberately misled the public. In actuality, they’re both sharing BIGTIME in ripping off and selling this National Treasure to collectors and auction houses all over the world.

Of course, the Stadium is a national landmark, no matter how hard the City tries to claim it’s not. How many World Series have been played at the Hip Hop landmark? How many times did Pele, Mandela, and the last three Popes,visit there? Anyone with a brain knows Yankee Stadium is a national landmark – despite the greed and corruption blocking that official designation.

Let’s kids from the neighborhood, and all around the world, play in the same stadium that eveyone from Ruth to A-Rd have. It’s the greatest treasure the Bronx has ever witnessed. Don’t rob them of it. Let them play inside it’s walls. And let the Hall of Fame open up a satellite museum there. It will make an absolute fortune for the community -as it always has – a fortune they’ll desperately need, if they want to see any games in the new stadium – The Stadium That Ruthless Built – aka Hankee Stadium..

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:32:07 +0000

Some buildings merit landmark status. This stadium is not one of them. The memories are great, but the stadium is not. It’s important to distinguish between the two.

By: Mike-Woodmont CT

Mike-Woodmont CT — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:22:01 +0000

The new Stadium is where it is because the Yankees and the City of New York did a swap of a park for the new stadium location. I don’t know how many of you geniuses have ever really been to the Bronx and to Yankees Stadium but your mean-spirited “suggestions” are completely uncalled for. The Yankee Stadium neighborhood is just that. People actually live there. There is valuable open space that has always been used for athletic activities. There was a genuine compromise that allowed this magnificent new Yankee Stadium to built. Not only is there going to be a new park area where the old stadium is now, but the “footprint” of the stadium replete with the baseball diamond and the foul lines will remain. The people who live there need to be able to live a real life as much as anyone else.

By: RockinDaBronx

RockinDaBronx — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:09:49 +0000

no, tear it down, take a dump on it, pave it and throw up a methadone clinic. God forbid someone comes up with a creative way to merge parkland with the world’s most famous baseball park.

By: No

No — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:21:47 +0000

The Houses that Ruth Built, they could call it.

By: No

No — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:20:56 +0000

At the Yankees’ expense, that is.

By: No

No — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:20:37 +0000

I’d rather they built some low-income housing on the site.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:19:41 +0000

I’m glad someone made something like this.
I thought about doing something simliar, but never got the chance to do so.

By: JimmyH

JimmyH — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:05:36 +0000

If the site of the current stadium becomes park land, in this age of GPS have the exact location of home plate measured and place a bronze (or whatever) replica permanently in the exact GPS location of the old one. In this way, at least, people can stand at the replica plate and say “this is where the Babe stood” or “Here’s where Mantle swung from” and let their imaginations do the rest.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:38:28 +0000

Pittsburgh did keep part of a wall from Forbes Field. I would say to keep just the lower level of seats, from dugout to dugout. Get rid of the rest for parkland. Leave 5,000 seats and it can even be use for small summer concerts or city championships games for high school baseball. You can fit other little league fields in the other parts. Remember you can get closer to the street because you don’t need such wide sidewalks.