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Originally Posted by philcski
I do too. It isn't Shea or Memorial in Cleveland or the old Toronto ballpark (all eyesores), it's a baseball shrine. They could keep it open and use it for kid's baseball games, tours, a museum type stuff.
Parking in the area is an issue but they could just build a huge parking garage instead of the lot it will be, problem solved.
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They are tearing down the Stadium but are keeping the field as a park. The location where the new Yankee Stadium is being built was a city owned combination park and track/dirt soccer/football field with seats. Part of the deal to build a new was for the Bronx to get back the same acreage they lost to the new stadium.
The designs for the area will be all grass and a smaller infield for kids to play on. A parkland setting run by the NYC Parks and Recreation Dept.
The new stadium would be built, as has been reported previously, atop Macombs Dam Park, a public park immediately to the north of Yankee Stadium. The original stadium - which had been variously been reported to be fated to become a museum or partially retained - would, at least according to the model displayed, be razed, with only the field and perhaps a few thousand seats remaining as a Little League and softball field.