Yankee Stadium From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For the ballpark used by the Yankees until 2008, see Yankee Stadium (1923). For other places with the same name, see Yankee Stadium (disambiguation) . Yankee Stadium Yankee Stadium (2009) Location East 161st Street & River Avenue, Bronx, New York Coordinates 40°49′45″N 73°55′35″W / 40.82917°N 73.92639°W / 40.82917; -73.92639 Broke ground August 16, 2006 Opened April 3, 2009 Owner New York Yankees (land leased from the City of New York) Operator New York Yankees Surface Grass Construction cost US $1.6 billion[1] Architect HOK Sport Capacity 52,325[2] Field dimensions Left Field - 318 ft (96.9 m) Left-Center - 399 ft (121.6 m) Center Field - 408 ft (124.3 m) Right-Center - 385 ft (117.3 m) Right Field - 314 ft (95.7 m) Tenants New York Yankees (MLB) (2009- ) Yankee Stadium is the home ballpark for the New York Yankees. It replaced the previous Yankee Stadium, built in 1923. The new ballpark was constructed across the street, northwest of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The first game at the new Yankee Stadium is scheduled on April 3, 2009, when the Yankees host one of two exhibition games against the Chicago Cubs. [3] The first regular-season game is scheduled to be played on April 16, 2009 when the Yankees host the Cleveland Indians. Although the stadium began construction in August 2006, the project of building a new stadium for the Yankees is one that has spanned many years and faced many controversies. Financing for the stadium has been a very divisive issue, with New York City citizens criticizing the city's decision to use funds to build the sports venue, instead of using it for other pressing issues. The projected total cost of the stadium is $1.6 billion, making it the second most expensive stadium in the world after Wembley Stadium.[1] Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 Planning 1.2 Construction 1.3 Financing 2 Design 2.1 Monument Park 3 Access and transportation 3.1 Parking lots and garages 3.2 Metro-North station 4 Public opinion 4.1 Objections 4.2 Supporting views 5 Stadium comparison 6 Construction gallery 7 See also 8 References 9 External links [edit] History [edit] Planning Team owner George Steinbrenner began a visible campaign for the building of a new stadium in the 1980s, going to the extreme of making statements alleging unsafe conditions around Yankee Stadium; such stirring of public fear was remarkable, considering that such statements could tend to discourage attendance at his own team's games. Among the options allegedly considered by the Yankee ownership was moving the team across the Hudson River to New Jersey.[citation needed] Days before leaving office in December 2001, New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani announced "tentative agreements" for both the New York Yankees and New York Mets to build new stadiums. Of $1.6 billion sought for the stadiums, city and state taxpayers would pick up half the tab for construction, $800 million, along with $390 million on extra transportation.[4] The plan also said that the teams would be allowed to keep all parking revenues, which state officials had already said they wanted to keep to compensate the state for building new garages for the teams.[5] The teams would keep 96% of ticket revenues and 100% of all other revenues, not pay sales tax or property tax on the stadium, and would get low-cost electricity from New York state.[5] Business officials criticized the plan as giving too much money to successful teams with little reason to move to a different city.[5] Michael Bloomberg, who succeeded Giuliani as mayor, exercised the escape clause in the agreements to back out of both deals, saying that the city could not afford to build new stadia for the Yankees and Mets. Bloomberg said that unbeknownst to him, Giuliani had inserted a clause in this deal which loosened the teams' leases with the city and would allow the Yankees and Mets to leave the city on 60 days' notice to find a new home elsewhere if the city backed out of the agreement.[4][5] At the time, Bloomberg said that publicly funded stadiums were a poor investment. Under Bloomberg, the New York City government would only offer public financing for infrastructure improvements; the teams would have to pay for the stadium themselves. Bloomberg called the former mayor's agreements "corporate welfare." Giuliani had already been instrumental in the construction of taxpayer-funded minor league baseball facilities KeySpan Park for the Mets' minor league Brooklyn Cyclones and Richmond County Bank Ballpark for the Staten Island Yankees. [edit] Construction New Yankee Stadium under construction, June 28, 2008Groundbreaking ceremonies for the stadium took place on August 16, 2006, the 58th anniversary of Babe Ruth's death, with George Steinbrenner (the Yankees' owner), Michael Bloomberg (the Mayor of New York City) and George Pataki (then the Governor of New York) among the notables donning Yankees hard hats and wielding ceremonial shovels to mark the occasion.[6][7] The Yankees continued to play in the previous Yankee Stadium during the 2007 and 2008 seasons while their new home stadium was built across the street. During construction of the Stadium, a construction worker named Gino Castignoli, an avid Boston Red Sox fan, buried a replica David Ortiz jersey underneath the visitors' dugout with the objective of placing a hex on the Yankees, much like the Curse of the Bambino that had plagued the Red Sox long after trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees. After Castignoli was exposed by co-workers, he was forced to help exhume the jersey.[8] The Yankees organization then donated the retrieved jersey to the Jimmy Fund, a charity started in 1948 by the Red Sox' National League rivals, the Boston Braves, but long championed by the Red Sox and particularly associated with Ted Williams.[9][10] Castignoli has since claimed to have buried a 2004 American League Championship Series program/scorecard, but has not said where he placed it.[11] The satirical newspaper The Onion parodied this event with a story claiming longtime Yankees star Bernie Williams was being buried under the new ballpark. [12] [edit] Financing Rather than the $800 million value affixed to the stadium (which is for the stadium and not for the parking garages, highway improvements and other items associated with the construction), independent analysts have set the tab for the complete project closer to $1.3 billion. The city's share includes allowing the Yankees to occupy 22 acres (89,000 m2) of Macombs Dam Park and John Mullaly Park (which is already used for stadium parking on game days), and to build parking garages on those parks. City-funded artificial surface will be placed on top of those parking garages to make up for the lost parkland. The city would retain ownership of the land, but would not charge the Yankees rent or property taxes. In addition, the city would foot the bill for acquiring scattered parcels of land near the waterfront, about a half-mile away, and building smaller parks as replacements there. The cost of renovating the existing parkland would be about $25 million; building new parkland will cost $150 million. That cost includes demolition costs for the historic Yankee Stadium, which would be completely torn down. The building's destruction would be paid for entirely by the city and replaced with parkland. The city will also issue tax-exempt bonds for the Yankees' new stadium. The Yankees would repay those bonds with payments in lieu of taxes; the Yankees have not paid taxes. The Yankees have arranged for the lease on Yankee Stadium to be classified as an "operating lease", even though many accountants think that the Yankees' early involvement in the building of the stadium should have precluded operating lease accounting. This is extremely important to the financing because it means that the Yankees will be able to keep significantly more revenue from the stadium and will not have to share it with the rest of Major League Baseball. New York state taxpayers will pay $70 million to help the Yankees build parking garages (as authorized by the State Legislature). The parking garage project would cost $320 million. City and State taxpayers will forgo up to $7.5 million annually in lost taxes resulting from the sale of $225 million in tax-exempt bonds authorized on October 9, 2007, by the New York City Industrial Development Agency (administered by the New York City Economic Development Corporation) to finance construction and renovation of the parking garages.[13][14] However, if the parking revenues are not enough to pay a reported $3.2 million land lease to the City of New York, the entity that will operate the parking garages and collect revenue will be able to defer that payment.[15] State taxpayers, through money that has accumulated from the MTA's budget since the 1980s, will also pay all of the costs of a train station on the Metro-North commuter railroad. In addition to the public subsidies and billions of dollars of increased revenue, the Yankees will benefit from a change to Major League Baseball's 2002 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that deducts new-stadium building costs from a team's net local revenue, which in turn reduces a team's revenue-sharing payments. For the Yankees,the largest contributor to the revenue sharing pool with roughly $300 million in overall revenues, this rule means 40 percent of their share of the price tag may be borne by the remaining 29 baseball teams. All told, the Yankees and the taxpayers can each expect to pay about $450 million, and the Yankees will cover the remaining costs from diverting revenue sharing payments that would have been paid to the other baseball teams. Lonn Trost, the Chief Operating Officer of the Yankees, confirmed in February 2008 that the new stadium would retain its original name, Yankee Stadium. [edit] Design Gate 4, the main entrance, of the new Yankee StadiumThe new stadium's design, by HOK Sport, consists of two separate structures. The Indiana limestone exterior is a wall circling the perimeter of the Yankees' new property, and resembles the pre-renovation exterior of the original Yankee Stadium. The interior is a modern ballpark, with increased amenities. It features a replica of the copper frieze that lined the inner wall of the original Stadium's upper deck until 1973, a lining torn down during the 1974–75 renovations (a replica of the original frieze lined the portion of the original structure that was removed during those renovations, beyond the outfield wall). It is above the bleachers and faces River Avenue. The Yankees use this frieze as a marketing tool on television and in print, and have allowed the sporting-goods chain Modell's to use it, as well. Between the perimeter and the stadium is a "great hall" with more than 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) of retail space, and a significant increase from the current ballpark when the New Yankee Stadium opens in 2009. On June 18, 2008, the Yankees announced two new restaurants will open in the new stadium, and will be open year round to both ticket holders and non ticket holders. A Hard Rock Cafe and a new restaurant named NYY Steak are both located beyond right field. The Hard Rock Cafe does not have a view of the field, while NYY Steak does. The Hard Rock Cafe at Yankee Stadium officially opened on March 30, 2009 and an opening ceremony will take place on April 2, 2009.[16] Due to the sports bar in center field, approximately 600 bleacher seats in the right and left field bleachers have obstructed views that will cause fans to miss any action occuring deep in the opposite outfield. To combat this, the Yankees installed TV monitors on the sides of the sports bar so fans will still be able to follow the action. In response to the criticisms and objections of fans and media, the Yankees reduced the price of these obstructed-view seats from $12 to $5.[17][18] [edit] Monument Park Monument Park, which features the Yankees' retired numbers, five freestanding monuments, and a few dozen plaques dedicated to some of the Yankees' players and managers beyond the left-center field wall, has been relocated to the new stadium. Based on designs revealed in 2005, the new Monument Park will be in center field, situated under a restaurant covered in black tinted glass, which will serve as the batter's eye. The transfer of Monument Park from the old stadium to the new stadium began on November 10, 2008. [19] The first monuments were put in place on February 23, 2009.[20] [edit] Access and transportation The new stadium is served by the same station complex as the current stadium: 161st Street–Yankee Stadium of the New York City Subway. Construction has begun on a Metro-North Railroad station to serve commuters from Manhattan via Grand Central Terminal and 125th Street and from New York's northern suburbs. The stadium will also be served by multiple bus lines and have ferry service. [edit] Parking lots and garages Aside from existing parking lots and garages serving the stadium, construction for additional parking garages is planned. The New York State Legislature agreed to $70 million in subsidies for a $320 million parking garage project. On October 9, 2007, the New York City Industrial Development Agency approved $225 million in tax-exempt bonds to finance construction of three new parking garages that will have 3,600 new parking spaces, and renovation of the existing 5,569 parking spaces nearby.[21] Plans initially called for a fourth new garage, but this was eliminated before the final approval. The garages will be built (and renovated) by the Community Initiatives Development Corporation of Hudson, N.Y., a nonprofit entity that will use the parking revenue to repay the (...?) and pay a $3 million yearly land lease to the City of New York. Parking is expected to cost $25 per game.[21] [edit] Metro-North station Main article: Yankees-E. 153rd Street (Metro-North station) On May 21, 2007, Crain's New York reported that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority concluded an agreement with the City of New York to design and build a new commuter rail station on the Metro-North Commuter Railroad's Hudson Line, which runs adjacent to Yankee Stadium. The MTA has indicated that trains from all three Grand Central Terminal-based lines will serve the stadium on game days. The MTA awarded a Design-Build contract to CCA-Halmar, and a construction management contract to DMJM+Harris. The new station, intended to handle 10,000 commuters on game days, will cost $91 million; the city is paying $39 million, with MTA funding the rest.[22] This project had been promoted for several decades, and in the MTA's annual budget since the 1980s. Despite being part of the old Yankee Stadium renovation plan during the 1970s, plans for the station did not go ahead until the impetus from New Yankee Stadium. The new station will provide service to all three Metro North lines (Hudson, Harlem and New Haven) via existing track connections that are not normally used for revenue passenger services. Approximately ten trains before and after the games will serve the station and will allow riders to leave from and travel to stations on all three Metro North lines.[23] A shuttle train will also transport fans between the stadium and Grand Central Terminal, potentially helping to reduce traffic on the subway lines used to connect to New Jersey Transit and Long Island Railroad trains at Penn Station. [edit] Public opinion [edit] Objections The stadium project has been criticized by community groups, urban planners, and parks, health, and public transportation advocates. In the fall of 2005, Bronx Community Board 4 voted against the project (the board's decisions are nonbinding). Opponents have contended that a private business should not have received more than $400 million in public subsidies for a project that would provide only limited benefit to the local community. Opponents also object to the demolition of the country's fourth-oldest, and arguably most historic, baseball park—the first to be called a "stadium"—and which has become one of the beloved venues in all of American sports. Some of the most vehement objections, however, have come from neighborhood residents. Unlike previous stadium discussions, this one was perceived to have taken place in the absence of any community input. First, the Yankees obtained approval from key legislators prior to publicly announcing their plan, pre-empting any opportunity for negotiation. Then, in the days after the stadium's design was unveiled, the New York State Legislature transferred Macombs Dam and John Mullaly Parks without a public hearing. Opponents maintained that this action violated state and federal laws, which were designed to protect parkland. City officials, including then-Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión, Jr., announced that the parkland that was taken would be replaced with "better" parks. Community groups countered that the new parks would be small and scattered throughout the borough, compared with the then-existing 22 acres (89,000 m2) of central, continuous open space. The plan would build parks on the Harlem River waterfront, which is one mile (1.6 km) distant from the current parkland and access would require travelling under an interstate highway and over railroad tracks. Ten acres of the replacement parks would be built on an artificial surface atop new parking garages; these parks would be closed to accommodate fans' cars on the 81 home game days, which account for almost half of the days during the six-month baseball season. Other parks would be built on the 9-acre (36,000 m2) site of Yankee Stadium, which will undergo complete demolition starting in 2009. The city has agreed to pay $150 million for the new parks and to demolish Yankee Stadium. Health advocates are concerned about the effect of increasing exhaust fumes and loss of 377 mature trees on this Bronx neighborhood, which reportedly has one of the highest childhood asthma rates in the United States. Parks advocates contend that the Yankees have taken advantage of the surrounding neighborhood, which comprises the poorest congressional district in the United States. Comparisons have been made to other neighborhoods, such as those surrounding Prospect Park in Brooklyn and Central Park in Manhattan, where parkland has historically been protected from the incursion of private business. Community groups had proposed that the Yankees use several available parcels of land south of East 161st Street to build their new stadium, or to renovate the old stadium. The latter proposal was rejected by the Yankees, as it would have required temporary relocation of the club to Shea Stadium, similar to what was done for the renovation during the 1974-75 seasons, a move that George Steinbrenner stated on several occasions would never be repeated. Renovation of the old park would have also required retrofitting what the Yankees maintain is an antiquated structure, and which would not have solved the issue of insufficient luxury box space, which is widely viewed as a key factor in the Yankees' desire for a completely new stadium in the first place. It should be noted that a 1998 plan estimated the cost of stadium renovation at about $200 million, with an additional cost of about $25 million for park restoration. Although the Yankees and some public officials have argued that Yankee Stadium is "falling apart", the city's Buildings Department, which examines all city-owned buildings (including Yankee Stadium) annually, concluded that the stadium is, overall, structurally sound, despite a 1998 accident where one of the stadium's support beams collapsed hours before a game was scheduled to be played.[24] [edit] Supporting views City officials, including Mayor Michael Bloomberg, say the neighborhood will benefit from the new stadium, even with the two large parks being replaced with much smaller and scattered segments of parkland. Yankees President Randy Levine says a new stadium will create thousands of jobs for the community. The New York City Economic Development Corporation, whose members are appointed by the mayor, says the stadium would increase the city’s tax base by $96 million over a 30-year period, (a figure considerably smaller than the $450 million the public is chipping in to bring the new stadium to life). Moreover, the Yankees have claimed that stadium renovations would eventually become so expensive as to provide no advantage over replacing the venue. It also ensures that the Yankees will remain in New York City for the next several decades. In the 1980s, the Yankees flirted publicly with relocating to the Meadowlands Sports Complex, saying that fans—many of whom live outside New York City itself—were unwilling to travel to the South Bronx for games, mostly because of traffic concerns (the current stadium can be accessed by subway, but not by Metro-North) and crime concerns outside the stadium. Even when the team won the 1996 World Series, few weekday home games drew crowds much beyond half the stadium's capacity, and some did not exceed 20,000 spectators. The recent upswing in attendance, partially due to $5.00 tickets for selected mid-week night games since 2002 (the Yankees have attracted 4 million fans a season each year since 2005, averaging nearly a sellout every game) has rendered those arguments moot. Finally, supporters of the new stadium point out that the New Yankee Stadium actually resembles the original "classic" Yankee Stadium more than the current structure (due to the 1974-75 renovations). The original Stadium was a multi-purpose stadium, designed for football, track meets, and non-sports related gatherings, as well as baseball. The new venue will be a baseball-only stadium. [edit] Stadium comparison The field dimensions at the new stadium will be identical to those existing at the older Yankee Stadium when it closed in 2008 (as opposed to the dimensions when it opened in 1923).[25] The new stadium will seat 51,000 fans (with a total capacity of approximately 53,000 with standing room), compared to 57,545 in the older stadium. The new stadium's seating will be spaced outward in a bowl, unlike the stacked-tiers design at the old stadium. This design will place most fans farther back but lower to the field. Lower-level seats will be near 30,000 (compared with 20,000 in the older Stadium), with about 20,000 seats in the upper deck. The stadium has a split upper-deck design seen in new stadiums such as Citizens Bank Park, with seating sections above and below the upper concourse and a view of the field from the concourse itself. There will be about half as many bleacher seats as the older Stadium's 7,500, but 2,000 standing room spots will be added. Each level of seating at the new stadium will contain a "premium seating" section. These sections will contain cushioned seats, cup holders, and access to private bars/clubs and restrooms. These sections are mostly placed behind home plate and seats within these sections are much more expensive. [26] Statistic Old Stadium [as in 2008] New Stadium Opening Day April 18, 1923 April 16, 2009 (scheduled) Capacity 56,866 52,325 (includes standing room) Seat width 18" to 22" (46 to 55 cm) 19" to 24" (48 to 61 cm) Legroom 29.5" (75 cm) 33" to 39" (84 to 99 cm) Concourse width (average) 17 ft (5.2 m) 32 ft (9.8 m) Cup holders None All seats in general seating bowl Luxury suites 19 56 Team stores 6,800 sq ft (630 m2) 11,560 sq ft (1,074 m2) Restroom ratio 1 per 89 fans 1 per 60 fans Public elevators (passenger lifts) 3 (Otis Traction) 16 (Otis Gen2 MRL Traction) Video scoreboard 25' by 33' (7.6 x 10.1 m) (Standard Definition LED) 59' by 101' (18 x 30.8 m) (High Definition LED) Distance from Home Plate to: Backstop 72' 4" (22.05 m) 52' 4" (15.95 m) Left Field 318' 318' ( 96.9 m) Left Center 399' 399' (121.6 m) Center Field 408' 408' (124.4 m) Right Center 385' 385' (117.3 m) Right Field 314' 314' ( 95.7 m) Source: The New York Yankees [25] [edit] Construction gallery Steel support beams for the upper deck of the new Yankee Stadium, as seen from the 161st Street-Yankee Stadium subway station. November 10, 2007. The future Great Hall at the new Yankee Stadium.November 10, 2007. The new Yankee Stadium under construction. November 7, 2007. Construction of the new Yankee Stadium as seen from the old stadium. June 15, 2007. A view of the new facing on Opening Day, April 1, 2008. A view of the construction from the old stadium on Opening Day, April 1, 2008. Construction in progress, June 7, 2008. Interior view, July, 2008 View from parking lot across the street on September 19, 2008. Gate 4 of the new Yankee Stadium. March 9, 2008 [edit] See also Citi Field, a new baseball stadium for the New York Mets (National League) also opened in 2009, next to the Mets' previous home Shea Stadium in northern Queens (New York City). Barclays Center, a proposed arena for the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association to be built by and over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Atlantic Avenue railyards in northwestern Brooklyn (New York City). 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Steinbrenner Field Lore Curse of the Bambino • Murderers' Row • Babe Ruth's called shot • Lou Gehrig's "Luckiest Man" Speech • The M&M Boys • Reg-gie! • Bucky Dent • Pine Tar Incident • Jeffrey Maier • Aaron Boone's walk-off home run Culture Monument Park • Old-Timers' Day • The Bleacher Creatures • Yankees Universe • Bob Sheppard • Eddie Layton • Mel Allen • Logos, Uniforms and Dress Code • Holy Cow! • Robert Merrill • "Yankees win! 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Humphrey Metrodome · Kauffman Stadium · Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum · Oriole Park at Camden Yards · Progressive Field · Rangers Ballpark in Arlington · Rogers Centre · Safeco Field · Tropicana Field · U.S. Cellular Field · Yankee Stadium National League AT&T Park · Busch Stadium · Chase Field · Citi Field · Citizens Bank Park · Coors Field · Dodger Stadium · Dolphin Stadium · Great American Ball Park · Miller Park · Minute Maid Park · Nationals Park · Petco Park · PNC Park · Turner Field · Wrigley Field [show]v • d • eThe Yankees-Red Sox Rivalry New York Yankees • The Bronx, New York City, New York • Yankee Stadium Boston Red Sox • Boston, Massachusetts • Fenway Park Key Moments Frazee's Folly • Curse of the Bambino • 1978 Tiebreaker Game • Bucky Dent's Home Run • Aaron Boone's Home Run • The Bloody Sock • The Curse Reversed Key Series 1999 ALCS • 2003 ALCS • 2004 ALCS Key People Babe Ruth • Harry Frazee • Joe DiMaggio • Ted Williams • Carlton Fisk • Thurman Munson • Bucky Dent • Bill Buckner • Roger Clemens • Wade Boggs • Derek Jeter • Andy Pettite • Mark Teixeira • Pedro Martínez • Mike Mussina • Alex Rodriguez • David Ortiz • Manny Ramirez • Curt Schilling • Jason Varitek • Johnny Damon • Aaron Boone • Joe Torre • Grady Little • Tim Wakefield • Josh Beckett • Terry Francona Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Stadium" Categories: Major League Baseball venues | Sports venues in the Bronx | New York Yankees