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Yankee Stadium
New Yankee Stadium

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; -73.92639Coordinates: 40°49′45″N 73°55′35″W / 40.82917°N 73.92639°W / 40.82917; -73.92639
Broke ground August 19, 2006
Opened April 3, 2009 (exhibition game)
April 16, 2009 (regular season)
Owner New York Yankees
(land owned by the City of New York)
Operator New York Yankees
Surface Grass
Construction cost US $1.5 billion[1]
Architect Populous
Capacity 52,325[2]
Field dimensions Left Field - 318 feet (97 m)
Left-Center - 399 feet (122 m)
Center Field - 408 feet (124 m)
Right-Center - 385 feet (117 m)
Right Field - 314 feet (96 m)
Backstop - 52 feet (16 m)
Tenants
New York Yankees (MLB) (2009-present)

Yankee Stadium is a stadium located in the The Bronx, a borough of New York City, New York, United States. It serves as the home ballpark for the New York Yankees, replacing the previous Yankee Stadium, built in 1923. The new ballpark was constructed across the street, north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park. The first game at the new Yankee Stadium was a preseason exhibition game against the Chicago Cubs played on April 3, 2009, which the Yankees won 7–4.[3] The first regular season game was played on April 16, 2009, a 10–2 Yankees loss to the Cleveland Indians.[4][5]

Much of the stadium incorporates design elements from the previous Yankee Stadium, paying homage to the Yankees' history. Although stadium construction began in August 2006, the project of building a new stadium for the Yankees is one that spanned many years and faced many controversies. The projected total cost of the stadium is $1.5 billion, making it the second most expensive stadium in the world.

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[edit] History

[edit] Planning

New York Yankees 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 the original Yankee Stadium, disregarding the possibility that such statements could 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.

Shortly before leaving office in December 2001, New York City Mayor Rudolph 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.[6] 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.[7] 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 the state of New York.[7] Business officials criticized the plan as giving too much money to successful teams with little reason to move to a different city.[7]

Michael Bloomberg, who succeeded Giuliani as mayor in 2002, exercised the escape clause in the agreements to back out of both deals, saying that the city could not afford to build new stadiums 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 sixty days' notice to find a new home elsewhere if the city backed out of the agreement.[6][7] 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

Yankee Stadium under construction in November 2007

Groundbreaking ceremonies for the stadium took place on August 16, 2006, the 58th anniversary of Babe Ruth's death, with Steinbrenner, Bloomberg and then-Governor of New York George Pataki among the notables donning Yankees hard hats and wielding ceremonial shovels to mark the occasion.[8][9] 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 and avid Boston Red Sox fan, buried a replica jersey of Red Sox player David Ortiz 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 Ruth to the Yankees. After the worker was exposed by co-workers, he was forced to help exhume the jersey.[10] 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.[11][12] The worker has since claimed to have buried a 2004 American League Championship Series program/scorecard, but has not said where he placed it.[13]

[edit] Financing

$70 million of New York state tax revenue will be used to 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.[14][15] 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.[16]

[edit] Features

The new stadium is meant to be very similar in design to the original Yankee Stadium, both in its original 1923 state and its post-renovation state in 2008. The exterior resembles the original look of the 1923 Yankee Stadium. The interior, a modern ballpark with greater space and increased amenities, features a playing field that closely resembles the previous ballpark before its closing.

[edit] Design and layout

The Indiana limestone exterior, shown at Gate 4, mirrors the exterior of the original Yankee Stadium in 1923.

The stadium was designed by the architect firm Populous (formerly HOK Sport). The exterior was made from 11,000 pieces of Indiana limestone, along with granite and pre-cast concrete.[17] The design closely mirrors the exterior of the original Yankee Stadium when it first opened in 1923.[17] The exterior features the building's name V-cut and gold-leaf lettered above each gate.[17] The interior of the stadium is adorned with hundreds of photographs capturing the history of the Yankees. The New York Daily News newspaper partnered with the Yankees for the exhibition "The Glory of the Yankees Photo Collection", which was selected from the Daily News' collection of over 2,000 photographs.[18]. Sports & The Arts as hired by the Yankees to curate the nearly 1,300 photographs that adorn the building from sources including the Daily News, Getty Images, the Baseball Hall of Fame and Major League Baseball.

The seats are laid out similar to the original stadium's stands, with grandstand seating that stretches beyond the foul poles, as well as bleacher seats beyond the outfield fences. The Field Level and Main Level comprise the lower bowl, with suites on the H&R Block Level, and the Upper Level and Grandstand Level comprising the upper bowl.[19] Approximately two-thirds of the stadium's seating is in the lower bowl, the inverse from the original Yankee Stadium.[19] Approximately 51,000 fans can be seated, with a standing room capacity of 52,325.[20] The new stadium's seating is spaced outward in a bowl, unlike the stacked-tiers design at the old stadium. This design places most fans farther back but lower to the field, by about an average of 30 feet. Over 56 suites are located within the ballpark, triple the amount from the previous stadium.[17] Seats are 19–24 inches (48–61 cm) wide, up from the previous stadium's 18–22-inch (46–56 cm) wide seats, while there is 33–39 inches (84–99 cm) of leg room, up from 29.5 inches (75 cm) of leg room in the previous stadium.[19] Many lower level seats are cushioned, while all seats are equipped with cupholders.[19] To allow for the extra seating space, the stadium's capacity is reduced by more than 4,000 seats in comparison to the previous stadium.[19]

The frieze that lined the roof of the original Yankee Stadium from 1923-1973 is replicated in its original location.

Many design elements of the ballpark's interior are inspired by the original Yankee Stadium. The roof of the new facility features a replica of the frieze that was a trademark of the previous ballpark.[19] In the original Yankee Stadium, a copper frieze originally lined the roof of the upper deck stands, but it was torn down during the 1974–75 renovations and replicated atop the wall beyond the bleachers.[19] The new stadium replicates the frieze in its original location along the upper deck stands.[19] Made of steel coated with zinc for rust protection, it is part of the support system for the cantilevers holding up the top deck and the lighting on the roof.[21] The wall beyond the bleacher seats is "cut out" to reveal the subway trains as they pass by, like they were in the original facility. A manually-operated auxiliary scoreboard is built into the left and right field fences, in the same locations it existed in the pre-renovation iteration of the original Yankee Stadium.[19]

The Great Hall is situated along the southern front of the stadium.

Between the exterior perimeter wall and interior of the stadium is the "Great Hall", a large concourse that runs between Gates 4 and 6.[22] With seven-story ceilings, the Great Hall features more than 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) of retail space and is lined with twenty banners of past and present Yankees superstars.[22] The Great Hall features a 5 x 383 foot LED ribbon.[22]

Monument Park, which features the Yankees' retired numbers, as well as monuments and plaques dedicated to distinguished Yankees, has been moved from its location beyond the left field fences in the original Yankee Stadium to its new location beyond the center field fences at the new facility. The newly relocated Monument Park is now situated under the sports bar. The new location of the monuments is meant to mirror their original placement in center field at the original pre-renovation Yankee Stadium, albeit when they were on the playing field. The transfer of Monument Park from the old stadium to the new stadium began on November 10, 2008.[23] The first monuments were put in place on February 23, 2009.[24] Yankees pitcher Mariano Rivera requested that the Yankees reposition the team's bullpen, as well as add a door to connect the Yankees' bullpen to Monument Park, in order to allow Yankees relievers access to it. The organization complied with his request.[17][25]

[edit] Field dimensions and playing surface

The field dimensions for the outfield fences have the same distance markers as the original facility prior to closing yet the dimensions are not identical.[26] Due to the design of the right-field stands and the inclusion of an embedded manual scoreboard, the right-field wall is an average of 5 feet closer to home plate.[27] Overall, the fences measure 318 feet to left field, 399 feet to left-center field, 408 feet to center field, 385 feet to right-center field, and 314 to right field.[19][20] At the old Yankee Stadium, the right field wall curved from the right-field corner to straightaway center, while at the new ballpark the fence takes a sharp, almost entirely straight angle.[27] This results in a difference at certain points between the right field markers of as much as 9 feet.[27] The dimensions in left field are substantially the same despite the presence of an embedded auxiliary scoreboard there as well.[27]

The outfield fences measure 8 feet 5 inches (2.6 m) high from the left-field foul pole until the Yankees' bullpen, when the fences begin to gradually descend in height until the right field foul pole, where they are only 8 feet (2.4 m) tall.[19] This also marks a decrease from the previous Yankee Stadium, where the outfield walls stood at a height of approximately 10 feet.[28] The distance from home plate to the backstop is 52 feet 4 inches (16.0 m), a reduction of 20 feet (6.1 m) from the previous facility.[20] The field is made up of Kentucky bluegrass, the same surface as the previous stadium, which is grown on a 1,300 acres (530 ha) farm in Bridgeton, New Jersey. The grass is equipped with a drainage system (featuring over 14,000 feet (4,300 m) of pipe) that makes the field playable an hour after taking 2 inches (51 mm) of rain.[19]

[edit] Amenities and facilities

A signature by Babe Ruth is one of many autographs in the "ball wall", the centerpiece of the Yankee Museum.
 
A signature by Babe Ruth is one of many autographs in the "ball wall", the centerpiece of the Yankee Museum.
A signature by Babe Ruth is one of many autographs in the "ball wall", the centerpiece of the Yankee Museum.

Yankee Stadium features a wide array of amenities. It contains 63 percent more space, 500,000 square feet more in total, than the previous stadium, with wider concourses and open sight lines on concourses.[17] Along with 227 miles of wired Ethernet cable, the building has sufficient fiber-optic cable wiring that Cisco Vice President and Treasurer David Holland calls the building "future proof".[17] Over 1,100 high-definition video monitors are placed within the stadium and approximately $10 million worth of baseball merchandise is housed within the ballpark.[17]

The center field scoreboard, which measures 59 x 101 feet was the third largest high definition scoreboard in the world when it opened (behind the 8,736 square foot board at newly renovated Kauffman Stadium and the new 8,066 square foot board at the renovated Tokyo Racecourse).[29]. Displaying 5,925 ft² of video, the scoreboard can display four 1080p high definition images simultaneously.[19]

The Yankees clubhouse features 30,000 ft² of space, over 2.5 times the space of the clubhouse from the previous facility.[30] The dressing area alone features 3,344 ft² of space, with each locker equipped with a safety deposit box and touch-screen computer.[30] The Yankees clubhouse features a weight room, training room, video room, and lounge area, while both teams' clubhouses have their own indoor batting cages.[30] The Yankees' therapy room features a hydrotherapy pool with an underwater treadmill.[30] The Yankees are believed to be the first team to chemically treat their uniforms, as well as the showering surfaces with an anti-bacterial agent that reduces the risk of infection.[30]

The Yankees Museum, located on the lower level at Gate 6, displays a wide range of Yankees' memorabilia.[31] A "Ball Wall" features hundreds of balls autographed by past and present Yankees, and there are plans to eventually add autographs for every living player who has played for the Yankees.[31] The centerpiece of the museum is a tribute to Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series, with a commemorative home plate in the floor and statues of Larsen pitching to Yogi Berra.[31] Along with a facsimile of a current locker from the Yankees' clubhouse, fans can view the locker of the late Thurman Munson, which sat unoccupied in the previous stadium's Yankee clubhouse in honor of Munson.[31]

The ballpark offers a wide choice of resturants. There are 25 fixed concessions stands, along with 112 moveable ones.[22] A Hard Rock Cafe is located within the ballpark, but it is open to anyone at the 161 St. and River Ave. entrance year round.[22] The Hard Rock Cafe at Yankee Stadium officially opened on March 30, 2009, and an opening ceremony took place on April 2, 2009.[32] A steakhouse called NYY Steak is located beyond right field.[22] Celebrity chefs will occasionally make appearances at the ballpark's restaurants and help prepare food for fans in premium seating over the course of the season.[22] Above Monument Park in center field is the Mohegan Sun sports bar, whose tinted black glass acts as the ballpark's batter's eye. The sports bar obstructs the view of approximately 600 bleacher seats in the right and left field bleachers, preventing fans from seeing the action occuring deep in the opposite side of the outfield. In response, the Yankees installed TV monitors on the sides of the sports bar and have reduced the price of these obstructed-view seats from $12 to $5.[33][34]

[edit] Stadium comparison

Yankee Stadium from the inside
Characteristic Old Stadium [as of 2008] New Stadium
Opening Day April 18, 1923 April 16, 2009
Capacity 56,866 52,325 (includes standing room)
Seat width 18–22 inches (46–55 cm) 19–24 inches (48–61 cm)
Legroom 29.5 inches (75 cm) 33–39 inches (84–99 cm)
Concourse width
(average)		 17 feet (5.2 m) 32 feet (9.8 m)
Cup holders None All seats in general seating bowl
Luxury suites 19 56
Team stores 6,800 square feet (630 m2) 11,560 square feet (1,074 m2)
Restroom fixture ratio 1 per 89 fans 1 per 60 fans
Public elevators
(passenger lifts)		 3
(Otis Traction)		 16
(KONE Traction)
Video scoreboard 25 feet by 33 feet
(7.6 × 10.1 m)
(Standard Definition LED)		 59 feet by 101 feet
(18 × 30.8 m)
(High Definition LED)
Distance from Home Plate to:  
Backstop
72 feet 4 inches (22.05 m)
52 feet 4 inches (15.95 m)
Left Field 318 feet 318 feet ( 96.9 m)
Left Center 399 feet 399 feet (121.6 m)
Center Field 408 feet 408 feet (124.4 m)
Right Center 385 feet 385 feet (117.3 m)
Right Field 314 feet 314 feet ( 95.7 m)
Source: The New York Yankees [20]

[edit] Accessibility and transportation

In addition to subway stations, Yankee Stadium is serviced by a recently opened Metro-North Railroad station.

The stadium is accessible via the 161st Street–Yankee Stadium station, the same station that served the old Yankee Stadium, on the B, D, and 4 lines of the New York City Subway. It is also served by the Yankees-E. 153rd Street station on the Metro-North Railroad which opened on May 23, 2009,[35] which routinely features Hudson Line train service, but on game days, Harlem Line and New Haven Line trains also platform there, as well as shuttle trains from Grand Central Terminal. The stadium is also served by multiple bus lines and ferry service.

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.[36] 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 bonds and pay a $3 million yearly land lease to the City of New York. Parking is expected to cost $25 per game.[36]

[edit] Public opinion

[edit] Opening and public perception

Although Yankee Stadium has been praised for its amenities and its usage of "classic" design elements from the original facility, the new stadium has been widely criticized for fan-unfriendly practices.[37][38] Seats within the first eight rows in the lower bowl, called the "Legends Suite", rank among the highest priced tickets in professional sports, with the average ticket in the section selling for $510 and the most expensive single game-day ticket costing $2,600.[37] Legends Suite Seats have been regularly empty, with many ticket holders in this section having given up their tickets, and others remaining unsold, despite most other seats in the ballpark selling out. This has created an "embarrassing" image on television of the seats behind home plate being almost completely vacant.[37] Consequently, a surplus of tickets for Legends Seats have emerged in the secondary market, and with supply exceeding demand, resale prices have dropped.

Legends Suite seats are also walled off from the other lower bowl seating and are patrolled by stadium security, with the divider being described as a "concrete moat" that creates a "caste system" within the ballpark.[37][38] Fans that do not have tickets within this premium section in the front rows are not allowed to access it or stand behind the dugouts during batting practice to watch players hit and request autographs.[37][38]

The Yankee Stadium staff was also criticized for an incident during a May 4, 2009 game, which was interrupted by a rain delay.[39] Fans were told by some staff members holding "How may I help you?" signs that the game was unlikely to resume and consequently, many fans exited the stadium, only for the game to eventually resume play.[39] The fans that left the ballpark were not permitted to re-enter, per the stadium's re-entry policy, and many subsequently got into arguments with stadium personnel.[39] In response to the backlash the Yankees received for the incident, the staff members were required to sign a gag order preventing them from speaking to media, but they did indicate that communication for rain delays would be improved.[39]

[edit] Home run haven

Yankee Stadium has quickly acquired a reputation as a "bandbox" and a "launching pad" due to the high number of home runs hit at the new ballpark.[40][41][42][43][44][45] Through its first 23 games, 87 home runs have been hit at the venue, easily besting Enron Field's (now called Minute Maid Park) previous record set in 2000.[46] Yankee Stadium is also on pace to threaten Coors Field's 1999 single-season record of 303 home runs allowed, and the hometown New York Daily News newspaper has taken to publishing a daily graphic comparing each stadium's home run totals through a similar number of games.

ESPN commentator Peter Gammons has denounced the new facility as "one of the biggest jokes in baseball" and concludes that "[it] was not a very well-planned ballpark."[42] Likewise, Gammons' ESPN colleague Buster Olney has described the stadium as being "on steroids" and likened it to his childhood Wiffle-ball park.[40][47] Newsday columnist Wallace Matthews joined in the criticism, labeling the stadium "ridiculous" and decrying its cheapening of the home run.[41] Former Yankee Reggie Jackson termed the park "too small" to contain current player Alex Rodriguez and suggested it might enable the third baseman to hit 75 home runs in a season.[41]

A variety of theories have been posited to account for the dramatic increase in home runs at the new Yankee Stadium over the original stadium, foremost among these the sharper angles of the outfield walls[27] and the speculated presence of a wind tunnel.[40] During construction of the new ballpark, engineers commissioned a wind study, the results of which indicated there would be no noticeable difference between the two stadiums.[48] The franchise is planning to conduct a second study, but Major League rules prohibit it from making any changes to the playing field until the off-season.[48]

An independent study by the weather service provider AccuWeather in June 2009 concluded that the shape and height of the right field wall, rather than the wind, is responsible for the proliferation of home runs at the stadium.[49] AccuWeather's analysis found that roughly 20% of the home runs hit at the new ballpark would not have been home runs at the old ballpark due to the gentle curve of its right field corner, and its 10-foot wall height.[49] Nothing was observed in wind speeds and patterns that would account for the increase.[49]

[edit] Yankee Stadium firsts

Logo for the inaugural season at the Stadium.

Before the official Opening Day against the Cleveland Indians April 16, 2009, the Yankees hosted a two-game exhibition series at the Stadium in early April against the Chicago Cubs.[4] Grady Sizemore of the Indians was the first player to hit a grand slam off of Yankee pitcher Dámaso Marté. The Indians and 2008 Cy Young Award winner, Cliff Lee, spoiled the opening of the new stadium by winning 10-2. Before the Yankees went to bat for the first time, the bat that Babe Ruth used to hit his first home run at the old Yankee Stadium in 1923 was placed momentarily on home plate. [50] Jorge Posada hit the first Yankee home run in the new ballpark hitting his off Lee in the same game.

Statistic Exhibition Regular season
First game April 3, 2009
Yankees 7, Cubs 4		 April 16, 2009
Indians 10, Yankees 2
Ceremonial First Pitch Reggie Jackson Yogi Berra
First Pitch Chien-Ming Wang CC Sabathia
First Batter Aaron Miles (Cubs) Grady Sizemore (Indians)
First Hit Aaron Miles (Cubs) Johnny Damon
First Yankees Batter Derek Jeter Derek Jeter
First Yankees Hit Derek Jeter Johnny Damon
First Home Run Robinson Cano Jorge Posada
First Grand Slam Grady Sizemore (Indians)
First Win Chien-Ming Wang Cliff Lee (Indians)
First Save Jonathan Albaladejo Mariano Rivera
First HR off the Mohegan Sun Restaurant Russell Branyan (Mariners)
First National Anthem Singer Kelly Clarkson

[edit] Other events

The first ever non-baseball event at the Stadium took place on April 25, 2009, with pastor and televangelist Joel Osteen holding a “Historic Night of Hope” prayer service.[51]

A New York University graduation ceremony took place on May 13, 2009 with the address being delivered by U.S. Secretary of State and former New York Senator Hillary Clinton.

The University of Notre Dame has expressed interested in having the Fighting Irish play a college football game at Yankee Stadium, possibly against historic Yankee Stadium rival Army. [52] The stadium was also considered a leading candidate for hosting the 2010 NHL Winter Classic[53], before Fenway Park in Boston was chosen.[54]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

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