Aug
03
Updated Yankee Stadium demolition photos
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Tom Kaminski of WCBS 880 took a bunch of aerial photos of the ongoing demolition at the Old Yankee Stadium this morning. The seats are all gone as are most of the field level sections, but the dugout is still intact. Head on over and check the pictures out, just make sure no one at work will laugh at you if you cry.
(h/t Sliding Into Home)
It’s like watching an old friend wither and die.
Agreed, but I feel more like:
“It’s like watching an old friend
wither and diebeing slowly murdered and not being able to do anything to stop it.”+187
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUA0ai0XxRU (SFW – music video)
sadly i agree
I don’t recall any of this wailing when the 1923 Yankee Stadium was mutilated between the 1973 and 1976 seasons. Of course, those were the days when if the Yankees could somehow draw 20,000 on a Sunday without a giveaway. Where, oh where were all of the great Yankee fans then? Remember, they drew 966,000 in 1972!
I wish they would have just destroyed it like what was done with Shea. It’s too painful to watch.
They would if they could. Shea was out in the middle of nowhere, they were able to basically wrecking ball the place. YS is adjacent to two subway lines and in an urban area.
Yep, plus you technically can’t “wrecking ball” anything in NYC. All tall buildings have to be dismantled piece by piece.
If you’ve been downtown in recent years, you may have noticed the old Deutschebank next to the World Trade Center has slowly been shrinking, level by level. That one is even more complicated due to the asbestos contamination from the WTC building during 9/11.
With Shea, due to its location they were able to dismantle it to a certain point, and then sort of pull down sections after it was largely stripped. As Mike A. said, they can’t do that with Yankee stadium.
Kind of a nit-pick, but the dismantling of the Deutsche Bank building really is a special case. Numerous buildings around/on top of the Fulton transit center, just a couple of blocks from the DB building, came down very quickly. The DB building is an extreme outlier due to environmental remediation and political issues..
Is there any structural reason to leave the dugouts intact? or is that maybe something they plan on leaving behind as part of a YS memorial?
Auction, probably.
That’d be a nice item to put in my backyard (if I had one) or my basement (if I had one).
Those weeds on the field level are heart wrenching.
Good thing they wasted 1.5 billion so they could get some luxury boxes there.
My parents got me a brick from Monument Park for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. Just set it up in my office a couple of minutes ago. Then I came on here. Strange to turn around and look at that then pull up this post…
i was thinking about getting one of those…it seems to be the only reasonably priced thing…
That’s really why my parents got it for me. Apparently, they were watching a game one night and saw a commercial for the seats and thought about that first. Then my sister goes online and finds out that they’re like $2,000 a piece, not to mention I have no place for one. So they settled on the brick. For $150, just a cool thing to own since there are a limited number of them.
I bought the seat pair,coupled them with some black and white pix of the old Stadium,and put them in my hallway.They look fantastic,friend and relatives come over to see them all the time,folks I haven’t seen for years.
The Grand Old Lady of Baseball.Lets all be there for her at the end,a sort of Irish wake if you will.Perfect world…..Win the World Series, and have the celebration in the Bronx, at the Grand Old Lady’s bier.
I will be there !!!