Even though all playoff games were sellouts, Legends Suite ticket holders were in the lounges and the restaurant underneath instead of their seats. If a game isnt a nail-biter, its fine to leave early; plenty of fans will do that, since it helps beat the crowds filing into the subway station after a match.
[114] President Bill Clinton spoke at the 2011 ceremony.
A signature by Babe Ruth is one of many autographs in the "ball wall", the centerpiece of the Yankee Museum.
One will run for the ALCS game on October 15itll leave from Grand Central at 2 p.m.
[101], The Notre Dame Fighting Irish played a college football game at Yankee Stadium against The Army Black Knights on November 20, 2010, with the Irish defeating the Black Knights 273. "[68] In his autobiography The Closer, the Yankees' longtime relief pitcher Mariano Rivera wrote about the new stadium's atmosphere: "It doesn't hold noise, or home-team fervor, anywhere near the way the old place did.
Yankee Stadium is accessible by car via the Major Deegan Expressway (I-87), with connections to the Cross Bronx Expressway (I-95), Bruckner Expressway (I-278), and other highways and roads. 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. Syracuse defeated Kansas State 3634 in a shootout, before a crowd of 38,274. [40], The Yankees clubhouse features 30,000 square feet (2,880 m2) of space, over 2.5 times the space of the clubhouse from the previous facility. The current Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium located in the Bronx, New York City.
This marked the two teams' first meeting in the Bronx since 1969. Though it lacks the nostalgic qualities of the actual house that Ruth built, the Yanks new home is a major improvement over the old one in many ways.
[94] Yankees amassed a record of 245 for homes games against every opposing teams' first games visiting the current Yankee Stadium. [56] 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. The service will still be subject to a price flooring policy, but the team stated that the new arrangement would provide a "superior, more secure, [and] better experience". Cotto defeated Foreman with a TKO in the ninth round.
Tickets to a Yankees game can be inexpensive, depending on where you want to sit; bleacher seats can be had for as little as $15, and at the Grandstand Levelaka the nosebleedstickets are occasionally as low as $10.
[38] The interior of the stadium is adorned with hundreds of photographs capturing the history of the Yankees. [115] Taylor Swift received her honorary doctorate in fine arts at the 2022 ceremony.[116]. [43] A Hard Rock Cafe is located within the ballpark, but it is open to anyone at the 161st St. and River Ave. entrance year round. However, Cuomo lost his re-election bid a few months later. [52] Since then, it has also been surpassed by what was the world's largest scoreboard at AT&T Stadium and the new scoreboard at the Philadelphia Phillies' Citizens Bank Park. Theres also no re-entry if you leave the stadium to light up. [40] 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.
Games at the new stadium do not feature the same deafening crowd moments and often sound eerily silent. [98], On April 21, 2014, it was announced that New York City FC, a Major League Soccer expansion team owned jointly by the New York Yankees and Manchester City, would play in Yankee Stadium from 2015 until their new stadium site is determined and the stadium is built.
The team justified the decision by stating that it was meant to combat fraud associated with printed digital tickets.
The grass is equipped with a drainage system (featuring over 14,000 feet (4,300m) of pipe) that makes the field playable an hour after taking 2 inches (51mm) of rain. [56] 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. Maybe I'm wrong, but it's hard to see that the new place can ever quite duplicate that. 
[82] However, the Yankees offense, as in previous years, had employed many home run hitters in 2009. As long as the bottle is not opened, you can bring it into the stadium. ", "Yankee Stadium Dimensions Cramping New York City FC's Style", "New York City FC Announces Home Venue for Upcoming Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League Match Against Santos de Gupiles Ftbol Club", "Sanu Sets Big East Record, Rutgers Outlasts Army", "First Pinstripe Bowl to Be Held Dec. 30", "MD-Rutgers game moved from Yankee Stadium", "At Yankee Stadium, Rangers Will Share Glamour with Rivals", "Madonna Treats Yankee Stadium To A Holiday On Her MDNA Tour! [61][62] Overall, the average ticket price is $63, the highest in baseball.
Ahead of the 2020 season, the Yankees added two new "social spaces"; the Stella Artois Landing at sections 232A and 232B in left field and the Michelob ULTRA Clubhouse at sections 207 and 208 in right field. "Coming from Oakland, the fans there were so rowdy. It was easier to come here.
[59] Consequently, a surplus of tickets for Legends Seats have emerged in the secondary market, and with supply exceeding demand, resale prices have dropped. The first regular-season match-up, against the Cleveland Indians, took place on April 16, 2009; the Bombers went on to win the World Series that year. [30], Michael Bloomberg, who succeeded Giuliani as mayor in 2002, called the former mayor's agreements "corporate welfare" and 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. Both teams played to a sold out stadium; Lafayette winning, 277. The Masterpass Batter's Eye Deck above the Center Field Sports Bar is an outdoor gathering space in center field with clear full views of the playing field available to all ticketed guests.
Real Madrid won 51, before a crowd of 49,474.
But if you plan on sitting there, be prepared to participate in the Bleacher Creature traditions.
Whats happening with the L train shutdown? ), the food options are more diverse, andcruciallythere are more bathrooms.
The stadium is reachable via the 161st Street Yankee Stadium station complex, the same that served the old Yankee Stadium, by the 4, B, and D trains of the New York City Subway.
4, was retired (Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth); the only perfect game in World Series history, pitched by Don Larsen in 1956; Roger Mariss record-setting 61st home run; and the World Series-winning game against the Atlanta Braves in 1996, which began the teams late-aughts heyday. The current stadium features 4,300 club seats and 68 luxury suites. The community was left without parkland for five years. If you want to have the most fun, snag a seat in section 203, aka the bleachersthough definitely dont do this if you plan to root for the opposing team.
IDA Approves $325.3 Million, Most for Yankee Stadium Garages", "More Soccer At Yankee Stadium: AC Milan vs. Real Madrid In August! [38] Over 1,100 HD video monitors are placed within the stadium and approximately $10 million worth of baseball merchandise is housed within the ballpark. [11] NYCFC played their first game at Yankee Stadium on March 15, 2015. [71] 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. [80] Nothing was observed in wind speeds and patterns that would account for the increase. [43] With seven-story ceilings, the Great Hall features more than 31,000 square feet (2,900m2) of retail space and is lined with 20 banners of past and present Yankees superstars. You can check out a virtual Yankee Stadium seating chart here. [55] The Yankees' therapy room features a hydrotherapy pool with an underwater treadmill. [36] These attempts didn't have much effect upon the home team, though: the Yankees went on to win the 2009 World Series at the end of their first MLB season in the new stadium.[37]. [39] Sports & The Arts was 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. October (Thurman Munson gave this one to Reggie Jackson during the 1977 season); and The Captain, aka Derek Jeter, who played his last game in 2014. [118][119] In an interview with WFAN radio, Yankees COO Lonn Trost explained that the measures were to help combat ticket resale, arguing that the team did not want fans to purchase "premium" seats at bargain prices, because they would be filled by "someone who has never sat in a premium location [before]". (1,024 446 pixels, file size: 404 KB, MIME type: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/33427774@N05, https://www.flickr.com/photos/33427774@N05/3728297866/sizes/l/, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Yankee_Stadium_Grandstand_Level_View.jpg&oldid=584162007, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, == Summary == {{Information |Description={{en|1=.
Like its predecessor, the new Yankee Stadium hosted the World Series in its very first season; in the 2009 World Series, the Yankees defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 4 games to 2. In 1988, Mayor Ed Koch agreed to have city taxpayers spend $90 million on a second renovation of Yankee Stadium that included luxury boxes and restaurants inside the stadium and parking garages and traffic improvements outside. [80], The number of home runs hit at the new stadium slowed significantly as the season progressed,[81] but a new single-season record for most home runs hit at a Yankee home ballpark was nonetheless set in the Yankees' 73rd home game of 2009 when Vladimir Guerrero of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim hit the 216th home run of the season at the venue, surpassing the previous record of 215 set at the original Yankee Stadium in 2005. ", "Jay Z and Justin Timberlake Take Over Yankee Stadium as Legends of the Summer", "Yankee Stadium Slugfest: Miguel Cotto Beats Junior Middleweight Champ Yuri Foreman", "President Bill Clinton to Speak at NYU's 2011 Commencement", "Taylor Swift gets honorary degree from New York University", "Here's why the Yankees are getting rid of print-at-home tickets", "New York City fans left stranded over ticket farce in Toronto draw", "Nobody Could Get Into The NYCFC Game At Yankee Stadium Because Of The Yankees' Stupid Ticket Policies", "Yankees exec gets snobby when defending new ticket policy", "Yankees glad John Oliver is a paying customer", "John Oliver Offers Premium Yankees Seats for 25 Cents Apiece on 'Last Week Tonight', "John Oliver sent 'riff-raff' dressed as unicorns and 'left sharks' to the Yankees game", "StubHub Will Serve as Yankees' Ticket Reseller", Ballparks.com overview of proposed stadium, Photographic Updates of the Construction of the New Yankee Stadium, Metro-North Railroad station at Yankee Stadium, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning, Bill Mazeroski's 1960 World Series home run, Current ballparks in Major League Baseball, Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium, Robert K. Kraft Field at Lawrence A. Wien Stadium, USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Yankee_Stadium&oldid=1100303361, American football venues in New York City, All articles with bare URLs for citations, Articles with bare URLs for citations from March 2022, Articles with PDF format bare URLs for citations, Articles with dead external links from October 2010, Articles with dead external links from November 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata, Pages using New York City Subway service templates, Articles with unsourced statements from November 2017, Articles with MusicBrainz place identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 25 July 2022, at 06:48. Both games drew a little more than 50,000 spectators, almost the full capacity of the stadium. Monument Park is now situated under the sports bar; black shades cover the monuments on the back wall during games to prevent interference with the vision of the batter. The Devils and Islanders never played an outdoor game before this series.[107]. Despite playing in both fixtures and traditionally being seen as "NYC's team", the Rangers were officially the away team in both games.
Original file (1,024 446 pixels, file size: 404 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg). The roof of the new facility features a replica of the frieze that was a trademark of the previous ballpark. [113], 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. [86] Grady Sizemore of the Indians was the first player to hit a grand slam off of Yankee pitcher Dmaso Marte. [38] It features the building's name V-cut and gold-leaf lettered above each gate. In July, Jeter became the first Yankee to join the 3,000 hit club and collect all 3,000 hits with the franchise. Current NCAA Division I FBS bowl game stadiums, New York City Industrial Development Agency, one of the most expensive stadiums ever built, The Garth Brooks World Tour with Trisha Yearwood, List of most expensive buildings in the world, "Yankees brass turned Stadium games into a funeral", "Young star Aaron Judge the talk of Yankees' Old-Timers' Day at the Stadium", "New York Yankees baseball team to refinance $1 billion of stadium debt", "S&P raises Yankee Stadium bonds to 'BBB', "Yankees parent group carrying nearly $2 billion in debt", http://www.fieldofschemes.com/documents/Yanks-Mets-costs.pdf, "New Yankee Stadium respects its rich history", "New York City FC outline plans for Yankee Stadium's baseball-to-soccer conversion", "2020 Official Media Guide and Record Book", "2021 Official Media Guide and Record Book", "2018 Official Media Guide and Record Book", "New York Yankees on the Forbes MLB Team Valuations List", "Question 4: Will Jeter Lure 4 Million Fans? The West Side Stadium plan resurfaced in December 2001, and by January 2002, months after the September 11 attacks, Giuliani announced "tentative agreements" for both the New York Yankees and New York Mets to build new stadiums. It is the home field for Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and Major League Soccer's New York City FC. [53][54] Displaying 5,925sqft (550.5m2) of video, the scoreboard can display four 1080p HD images simultaneously.
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. The seats are laid out similar to the original Yankee Stadium's stands, with grandstand seating that stretches beyond the foul poles, as well as bleacher seats beyond the outfield fences.
YMCA by the Village People: During the seventh inning stretch, the grounds crew at Yankee Stadium comes out to do their thing, but they also do the YMCAarm gestures and all. Over 56 suites are located within the ballpark, triple the amount from the previous stadium.
[89] In 2011, three significant milestones were achieved at the stadium. But unlike Citi Field, the options arent especially NYC-centric; among the local vendors slinging chow at the ballpark are Lobels, a longtime Upper East Side butcher shop that has an outpost there (try the steak sandwich; they have locations in sections 134 and 321) and Mighty Quinns, the BBQ hotspot. Theres a group of regulars, known as the Bleacher Creatures, whove claimed the cheap seats as their territory, and you wont find more die-hard fans in the stadium. We have no idea. However, it was also believed that the team was trying to specifically hinder the ticket resale service StubHub, which competed against an official resale service run by TicketMaster known as the Yankees Ticket Exchange. 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. Whos to blame for MTAs declining ridership? [67] The lack of fan noise was noticeable in the 2012 playoffs as well, with thousands of unsold seats for Game 5 of the ALDS and Games 1 and 2 of the ALCS.
[83], In 2010, the early rate of home runs were markedly less through May 15, 2010, with 35 home runs hit in 14 games for 2.5 per game (a projection of 205in 2009, the stadium finished at 2.93 per game for a total of 237). As a further satire of Trost's arguments against discounted resale, Oliver then announced a contest in which viewers were invited to send photos of themselves dressed as if they had "never sat in a premium location before", with winners offered the ability to purchase a pair of Legends Seats from one of the first three home games of the season for 25 cents. He suggested that Babe Ruth could have potentially hit 120 or more homers if he played in the new Stadium. The Yankees love traditions; for example, with very few exceptions, the teams uniformspinstripes, no names on the back of each players jerseyhavent changed since the early 20th century. The stunt was successful, leading to the presence of several costumed attendees in Legends Seats during the opening games. [38] Along with 227 miles (365km) 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". Although StubHub is the official ticket resale partner of Major League Baseball, the Yankees, as well as the Los Angeles Angels and Chicago Cubs, had opted out of this agreement. The House That Ruth Built. The neighborhoods with the most bang for your buck, The most walkable neighborhood in every borough, Where to live if youd rather buy than rent, A guide to NYCs affordable housing lottery, How to research a building before signing a lease, The best and worst months to buy an apartment, 5 tenant laws your landlord doesnt want you to know, The best websites for finding an apartment, Why you should ride the Roosevelt Island Tram, Grand Central Terminal in NYC: the ultimate guide, What its really like to be a bike commuter, 12 small towns near NYC to visit right now, New York City's most iconic buildings, mapped, An illustrated guide to New Yorks architectural styles, The most beautiful interiors in New York City, The immigrant architects who built New York City, The most beautiful museums: The Frick, Guggenheim, & more, 10 tips for riding NYC transit like a pro, The best apps to help you navigate the subway.