February 6, 200916 yr yikes! shea today...or what little is left of it...from wcbs 880 news chopper :-o shea and citifield more: http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/3803516.php?imageGalleryXRefId=930065#imgXR
February 6, 200916 yr yikes! shea today...or what little is left of it...from wcbs 880 news chopper :o shea and citifield more: http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/3803516.php?imageGalleryXRefId=930065#imgXR They are really knocking that down. When I went to/from DC MLK weekend and and home last weekend about half that was still up. sheesh. I certainly is faster to come down than go up.
February 11, 200916 yr get your yankee/meadowlands stadium progress views here: En Stade: New Looks at New Yankee and Giants Stadiums Wednesday, February 11, 2009, by Lockhart We're suckers for stadium porn, so—courtesy of a contributor to the construction.com community—come new glimpses of the interior of the New Yankee Stadium (above left) and the upper deck in the New Meadowlands. Click through for more hard-hitting action. · New York Construction photos [construction.com] http://curbed.com/archives/2009/02/11/en_stade_new_looks_at_new_yankee_and_giants_stadiums.php
February 12, 200916 yr I love Citi Field's design. I agree! Probably the best new ballpark in the nation ... Busch is pretty damn sweet too. You can't tell from this pic, but the lights have a cool old-school iron look: Beautiful brick entrance: I'm not a fan of the new stadiums trying to look as if they are old. There is something very fake about them.
February 12, 200916 yr ^Agree completely. I guess it's OK that New Yankee stadium is taking design cues from old Yankee Stadium, but from Camden Yards onwards, the whole brick arches thing has gotten out of control; in most cases trying to evoke some historic/nostalgic sentiment from a history that never existed for that team, city or site. Barf already. Especially when in a parking lot, like Citifield- seriously, why the f does anyone care what Citifield's facade looks like given the setting? One of the very few refreshing exceptions is the Prog which really isn't sentimental or old timy at all. Not that I'm unbiased...
February 12, 200916 yr While the whole retro look is pretty pathetic, the new stadiums have tended to take advantage of urban locations and of site lines. I love watching the games where the outfield spills into a skyline or large body of water.
February 14, 200916 yr I think it's alright to take a retro approach if it's done right. Except that 95% of these new stadiums taking that approach fail miserably. At the same time, I don't want some contemporary blob. That's okay for in the middle of a desert, but doesn't lend itself to an effective integration into the urban fabric. I'm really not that big of a fan of Citi Field. It's kind of boring looking to me
February 18, 200916 yr that's it. it's gone. the last piece of shea came down. good angle here (25secs) http://www.newsday.com/video/?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=3460339 funny local color here (60secs)
March 13, 200916 yr New interior photos of the New Yankee Stadium at this blogsite. Here's a sampling of the photos... But what really got my attention was this photo below... It got featured on an ESPN show as a "screw up". It looks like the seats have zero legroom. However, its likely that this section of seats haven't been bolted down yet and are temporarily resting here. At least that's what some commenters on the blogsite think. Hope they're right! http://slidingintohome.blogspot.com/2009/03/312-new-stadium-photo-update.html
March 15, 200916 yr LOL that's awesome. But yeah, I doubt they are bolted down yet. Look at the large aisle behind them. Clearly these have plenty of space to move back.
March 16, 200916 yr Wow.. that stadium is going to be amazing, can't wait to go to some games this summer.
March 16, 200916 yr Wow.. that stadium is going to be amazing, can't wait to go to some games this summer. I'll reserve judgement. For christ sakes it's where the stankees play! Something is bound to be wrong with the place! >:D
March 26, 200916 yr red bulls stadium via curbed and the wcbs880 helicopter: Construction Watch: One More to Cement the Stadium Fatigue Wednesday, March 25, 2009, by Joey -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's see. Yankee Stadium? Nope. Citi Field? Not that one either. The new Giants Stadium? Good guess, but incorrect. What we have here is yet another new stadium in the metropolitan area, flying under the radar out in Harrison, New Jersey. What team will call it home? Here's a hint: it's called Red Bull Park. Still nothing, huh? It's for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer, and when we looked at the plans for the new $220 million stadium, it was just one part of a massive mixed-use development that would also include 800 apartments—all on the shores of the bucolic Passaic River. Of course, those were the heady days of 2006, so your guess is as good as ours as to the fate of that master plan. · Photo Gallery: Meadowlands Stadium and Red Bull Arena [WCBS 880] · Across the Hudson: Red Bull Park [Curbed] more pics here: http://curbed.com/archives/2009/03/25/construction_watch_one_more_to_cement_the_stadium_fatigue.php#comment-301270
March 30, 200916 yr well how about this? the first game was played in citifield: CURTAIN RISES ON AMAZIN' NEW BALLPARK March 30, 2009 The outfield fences are black, topped by orange trim, and both dugouts are green. The lights were shining, and the giant red Pepsi-Cola sign sat beyond the right-field porch. Citi Field opened up yesterday, and while the Mets weren't in action and the stadium isn't completely finished, the field is at least playable. St. John's and Georgetown proved that, playing 8½ innings in the new ballpark's first event. It was an early test of the stadium and field itself -- especially since it rained -- and Met officials were happy with Day One, in which their park looked impressive. Read more at http://www.nypost.com/seven/03302009/sports/mets/curtain_rises_on_amazin_new_ballpark_162042.htm
April 3, 200916 yr Allright! It's offically official! The word has been laid down by New York Times architecture critic Nicolas Ouroussoff on the new Yankee Stadium and the new Mets stadium, Citi Field! To paraphase Nic's review: "They're not modern - so meh!" But here's the full review anyway. Nice panaramas of both stadiums from the Times though... ARCHITECTURE REVIEW Two New Baseball Palaces, One Stoic, One Scrappy By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF, THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: April 2, 2009 American stadium design has been stuck in a nostalgic funk, with sports franchises recycling the same old images year after year. Still, if you have to go with a retro look, New York City could have done worse than the new Yankee Stadium and Citi Field. Both were designed by Populous (formerly known as HOK Sport Venue Event) and are major upgrades over the stadiums they replaced, which had been looking more and more dilapidated over the years. Both should be fine places to spend a few hours watching a game. Link: The New Yankees Stadium Interactive Panarama Link: The Citi Field Interactive Panarama Read more at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03stadia.html?_r=1&em
April 5, 200916 yr I went to the Mets/Sox game yesterday at Citi field, but only have 1-2 pics on my camera phone. Overall it's a nice stadium, I'll save my comparisons until I go to the Yankees/Indians game in a couple weeks.
May 12, 200916 yr Dirt, Seats And Bases Available From (Old) Yankee Stadium Auction Get your old home plate from Yankee Stadium! (Richard Drew/AP) After paying NYC $11.5 million for the right to auction off items, the Yankees are selling off remnants of its old stadium. Yankees COO Leon Trost said at a press conference, "We're talking about making available pairs of seats, commemorative seats, seat backs, seats from the bleachers, foul poles." Heck, there's even a chunk of freeze-dried grass for $79.99 or a 4' by 80' piece of sod from between second and third bases for $6,000. The auction is being conducted by Steiner Sports; Brandon Steiner said, "Our goal is to save as much as we can. People can laugh about the dirt and laugh about the brick, but those are memories we can savor." Newsday reports the items will be rolled out over time. One much-mentioned item is a piece of the wall that Derek Jeter fell over to catch a pop-up during a 2004 game against the Red Sox. It's not online yet, but a Yankee Stadium seat is ($749). However, not everyone is happy with the deal: Frequent Yankees critic Assemblyman Richard Brodsky said, "The carcass of Yankee Stadium is city property and it’s clearly worth more than $11.5 million. I know no good reason why taxpayers, having built the new stadium, should not benefit more from the sale." Trost responded to Brodsky's stance, "I say that [brodsky] continues to grandstand, that he has an agenda that we don't know what it is. We hope his constituency likes what he's doing, because they're paying for it." In this arrangement, the Yankees cover the cost of removing all the seats and other items, instead of the city bearing the cost. Speaking of spending money on Yankees items, a NY Post reader offered this analysis of how crazy the prices are at the new stadium: "Option 1: Two tickets to Tuesday night, June 30, Mariners at Yanks, cost for just the tickets, $5,000. Option 2: Two round-trip airline tickets to Seattle, Friday, Aug. 14, return Sunday the 16th, rental car for three days, two-night double occupancy stay in four-star hotel, two top tickets to both the Saturday and Sunday Yanks-Mariners games, two best-restaurant-in-town dinners for two. Total cost, $2,800. Plus-frequent flyer miles." :-o :roll: http://gothamist.com/2009/05/12/dirt_seats_and_bases_available_from.php
May 21, 200916 yr very strange....shea stadium 1.0 as of today --- it's a parking lot --- you'd never know there was a stadium there! :-o http://www.wcbs880.com/Shea-No-More/4444124
July 27, 200915 yr The WCBS helicopter strikes again! This time flying over the new soccer stadium for the MLS New York Red Bulls. More at http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/4860244.php?imageGalleryXRefId=1244493
July 27, 200915 yr That is going to be a world class stadium once its finished and easily will be the best football/soccer stadium in the states.
July 27, 200915 yr oh but there is more....and its good news: Construction On New Meadowlands Stadium Ahead Of Schedule Thursday, July 9, 2009 Meadowlands Stadium in East RutherfordMeadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the soon-to-be home field of the New York Giants and Jets football teams, is under construction and months ahead of schedule. The stadium will still open during the projected time frame of December 2009 to April 2010. Meadowlands Stadium is replacing Giants Stadium, with the construction taking place nearby in the parking lot. Giants Stadium will be demolished when Meadowlands is completed to free up more parking lot space. The new open-air stadium will have 82,500 seats, including 200 luxury suites, four large video boards in each of the four corners, and a fenced in security perimeter. It will be the second-largest stadium in the NFL behind FedExField, home to the Washington Redskins outside of Washington D.C., with a capacity of 91,704. Environmentally friendly initiatives are being taken to create one of the greenest sports venues there is. Meadowlands Stadium will be partially built with 40,000 tons of recycled steel and stadium seats will be constructed from scrap iron and recycled plastic. Water use and construction waste are being cut, and concessions will use biodegradable utensils, plates and cups. Construction costs are currently estimated at $1.6 billion. The opening of Meadowlands Stadium follows the open of Citi Field in March 2009 and of the new Yankee Stadium in April 2009, both in New York City. posted by NYTIX Blog Team at 3:07 AM edit: i found this construction shot dated 4/27/09: http://www.nytix.com/Blog/newyorkcity/2009/07/construction-on-new-meadowlands-stadium.html
July 27, 200915 yr I got a chance to see the Reds win one at Citi Field a few weeks ago, here's a few photos (as you can see I splurged and got the best seats in the house): Should have made this one bigger:
September 4, 200915 yr that old osborne design and construction is pretty stubborn... :wink: here's whats currently up...err...down? with old yankee stadium -- video link below: Iconic facade comes down from old Yankee Stadium as part of demolition BY Oren Yaniv DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Friday, September 4th 2009, 8:20 AM Even Babe Ruth would have trouble recognizing the old Yankee Stadium now. The beloved ballpark's iconic facade - the white scalloped frieze that ran above the scoreboard and billboards - is being pulled down as demolition kicks into high gear. "It's an end of an era," Yankees fan Maria Abbamont, 44, said Thursday as she watched some of the panels be removed Thursday. video here: http://www.nydailynews.com/real_estate/2009/09/04/2009-09-04_this_old_house_is_finished_now_the_frieze_comes_down_from_stadium.html
November 1, 200915 yr an interesting shot of yankee stadium on it's last legs -- from the wcbs chopper & curbed blog http://curbed.com/archives/2009/10/30/en_stade_house_that_ruth_built_cheers_on_the_ees.php
December 17, 200915 yr from our friend the wcbs news chopper: yankee stadium demo as of 12/14/09 meadowlands construction 12/8/09 red bulls 10/7/09 Can a soccer stadium spur $1.5B in redevelopment? The New York Red Bulls' stadium in Harrison, N.J., is expected to open in March 2010; followed by 7,000 condos and apartments in five to 10 years. http://djc.com/news/co/12010798.html?query=riverfront&searchtype=
December 26, 200915 yr i'll put this shot here because the 'world class signage' means the ratner's scaled down atlantic yards barclays center construction has started:
February 10, 201015 yr demolition begins on giants stadium Demolition of Giants Stadium begins as Giants, Jets ready to move into new stadium BY Larry Mcshane DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Originally Published:Thursday, February 4th 2010, 2:04 PM Updated: Friday, February 5th 2010, 10:24 AM Goodbye, Giants Stadium. Wrecking crews arrived Thursday to start tearing down the East Rutherford, N.J., home of the Giants and Jets just 33 years after its debut. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/2010/02/04/2010-02-04_giants_stadium_demolition.html#ixzz0f9v74FsJ
February 10, 201015 yr here are the latest renders for the brooklyn barclays arena keep up with this sh*tshow and/or enjoy the ratner bashing here: http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=4322&page=211
March 26, 201015 yr the $200m red bull stadium recently opened in jersey: 'Awesome' opening of Red Bull Arena has players excited for future By Frank Giase/The Star-Ledger March 22, 2010, 8:02PM It was 15 years in the making, going through countless redesigns. Owners and general managers tweaked the plans, then threw them out and began again. The last ownership group wanted a stage at one end for concerts, and we would have gladly taken that if someone would have just built the darn thing already. But in the end, when it all shook out, Red Bull Arena is what it should have been all along, a soccer-only stadium where all other events take a back seat lots of video, etc here: http://www.nj.com/soccer-news/index.ssf/2010/03/awesome_opening_of_red_bull_ar.html
March 26, 201015 yr This Red Bull Stadium photo link was posted in the Columbus Crew thread: The Red Bull Stadium in NY is amazing here is a link for those interested to its construction thread @skyscraperpage.com http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=129467&page=5&highlight=bull Red Bull Stadium looks good on the outside. But it is positively dazzling on the inside. And this stadium shows just how far the MLS has come in the past 10 years. The first MLS soccer-only stadium opened in Columbus at a frugal $22 million in 1999. This year brings a new soccer-only stadium for Philadelphia and the $200 million Red Bull Stadium for New York.
March 26, 201015 yr also -- its tower in the park right now but i understand they want to build infill and residential around some of it. sounds good to me -- i hope to hear more about that!
March 26, 201015 yr its going down fast now -- watch'em rip old yankee stadium to shreds!!! :shoot: slideshow here: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/galleries/demolition_of_old_yankee_stadium_begins/demolition_of_old_yankee_stadium_begins.html
October 28, 201113 yr 10/28/11 since i work right next door to it sometimes, here are a few shots of the ratner's brooklyn nets barclays arena from this morning:
December 9, 201113 yr more of the ratner's nets/barclay arena from today: from the ratner's atlantic terminal mall - ha too glaring inside the mall at that time of day! mini this is the east side of it southeast here is the facade last is what is left of the open cut of the railyard just to the east, its mostly staging
December 9, 201113 yr The giant hat / creampie is looking good! Seriously though, I love this stadium.
January 13, 201213 yr the roof, the roof...! :mrgreen: 01/12/2012 08:51 PM Barclays Center Gets Its Roof By: NY1 News The roof is on, and the Barclays Center is one step closer to being finished. The future home of the Brooklyn Nets was “topped” on Thursday. The arena at Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues will not only house the NBA's Nets, but will also host other sporting events and an array of concerts and performances. It is scheduled to open this September with a performance by Brooklyn's own Jay-Z. video: http://www.ny1.com/content/sports/sports_news/154129/barclays-center-gets-its-roof
February 2, 201213 yr a tour of atlantic yards -- neato photos! http://www.observer.com/2012/02/a-tour-of-the-atlantic-yards-arena/
February 8, 201213 yr pre-fabulous!?! ha. doesn't sound like they have all the $ yet so we'll see: Sky's the limit on pre-fab towers for Atlantic Yards developer 4:30 AM, February 8, 2012ι By RICH CALDER ...FCR is currently seeking financing to build a prefabricated, 32-story residential building at the corner of Dean Street and Flatbush Avenue — the first of 16 towers slated for a once financially doomed project that also includes an under-construction arena for the NBA’s Nets. Sanna said modular construction — where whole sections are built off-site and then attached to the building like Legos — could slash costs for the $4.9 billion Atlantic Yards development by at least 25 percent under “modest” estimates... Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/brooklyn/sky_the_limit_developer_pre_fab_1w8kBzzbtdUVaLPtWY4m1K#ixzz1loVh02sP Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/brooklyn/sky_the_limit_developer_pre_fab_1w8kBzzbtdUVaLPtWY4m1K#ixzz1loUuweGn
April 24, 201213 yr ratner barclay center tour -- Post tours Barclays Center construction site Developer Bruce Ratner took the Post on a tour last week of the Barclays Center construction site in Brooklyn. The Nets, who play their final game in New Jersey tonight, will be moving into their 18,200-seat future home in Brooklyn next season. The arena opens in September with a series of concerts by rap icon Jay Z, a part-owner of the Nets. Here is a transcript of some of the interview with Ratner, also a part owner of the Nets. Other parts can be heard on video at nypost.com: Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/brooklyn/post_tours_barclays_center_construction_kaiHTq2sStTTMbvnO5LDaK#ixzz1sxt19y6q
April 24, 201213 yr a tour of atlantic yards -- neato photos! http://www.observer.com/2012/02/a-tour-of-the-atlantic-yards-arena/ It's really interesting to see how this place will interact in the neighborhood. But anyway, it looks like it will be an amazing venue. ps. Some outlandish perspective....I'm from NJ and I don't know a single Nets fan. Not one. I'm guessing their fan base will increase dramatically.
April 24, 201213 yr ps. Some outlandish perspective....I'm from NJ and I don't know a single Nets fan. Not one. I'm guessing their fan base will increase dramatically. ^That's because I moved to Ohio :wave:
April 24, 201213 yr ps. Some outlandish perspective....I'm from NJ and I don't know a single Nets fan. Not one. I'm guessing their fan base will increase dramatically. ^That's because I moved to Ohio :wave: You are a NJ Nets fan??? I didn't have an nba favorite, but all my friends were mostly Knicks or 76ers, with some Lakers and Celtics thrown in. But I'm not exaggerating, I personally don't know of any Nets fans.
April 25, 201213 yr It’s a regional team, and also the disadvantage of driving [to Brooklyn] would be made up by being in a brand new arena and the excitement of a team playing in a new place -- all the energy that is going to go with it. What [having to travel from New Jersey to Barclays Center] gives up in transportation, it will make up in entertainment. I think a lot will come. They might not buy season tickets, but they’ll come to a lot of games whether it’s partial season-ticket packages or just tickets to some of the games. Isn't their current arena just a couple years old? I guess the Nets will need another new arena to call home in another couple years...?? You know, to stay fresh?? I wouldn't feel like the move was such a raw deal if they kept the NJ name. The NY Giants, Jets, and Red Bulls play in NJ, after all. I don't know how anyone could be a NY sports fan. Or NJ, really. The sense of community is too diluted, especially when the teams are statewide or they play in a different municipality/state. If NKY got a basketball or hockey arena, I wouldn't want the team to have Cincinnati's name attached. And I would be less of a fan if the Cbus Blue Jackets were the Ohio Blue Jackets. (Or, heaven forbid, if the Reds/Indians/Bengals/Browns/Cavaliers went statewide.) It's one of the fallacies of being a Buckeyes fan, especially if you're not an alum.
April 25, 201213 yr It’s a regional team, and also the disadvantage of driving [to Brooklyn] would be made up by being in a brand new arena and the excitement of a team playing in a new place -- all the energy that is going to go with it. What [having to travel from New Jersey to Barclays Center] gives up in transportation, it will make up in entertainment. I think a lot will come. They might not buy season tickets, but they’ll come to a lot of games whether it’s partial season-ticket packages or just tickets to some of the games. Isn't their current arena just a couple years old? I guess the Nets will need another new arena to call home in another couple years...?? You know, to stay fresh?? I wouldn't feel like the move was such a raw deal if they kept the NJ name. The NY Giants, Jets, and Red Bulls play in NJ, after all. I don't know how anyone could be a NY sports fan. Or NJ, really. The sense of community is too diluted, especially when the teams are statewide or they play in a different municipality/state. If NKY got a basketball or hockey arena, I wouldn't want the team to have Cincinnati's name attached. And I would be less of a fan if the Cbus Blue Jackets were the Ohio Blue Jackets. (Or, heaven forbid, if the Reds/Indians/Bengals/Browns/Cavaliers went statewide.) It's one of the fallacies of being a Buckeyes fan, especially if you're not an alum. I think the Giants and Jets are a different situation. Both of the played in NYC for years (the Giants for decades). I think most people in NYC understand that they play in New Jersey because building these stadiums (at least with any semblance of cost effectiveness) is not really possible in a lot of the parts of NYC.
April 25, 201213 yr They both play in MetLife Stadium. They could have built a football stadium in Brooklyn instead of a basketball arena. Or they could have built the Red Bulls stadium there instead of in Harrison, NJ. Whatever the reasons, NY seems to habitually give NJ the shaft when it comes to sports franchises. Stealing the Nets is the most egregious example to date.
April 25, 201213 yr It’s a regional team, and also the disadvantage of driving [to Brooklyn] would be made up by being in a brand new arena and the excitement of a team playing in a new place -- all the energy that is going to go with it. What [having to travel from New Jersey to Barclays Center] gives up in transportation, it will make up in entertainment. I think a lot will come. They might not buy season tickets, but they’ll come to a lot of games whether it’s partial season-ticket packages or just tickets to some of the games. Isn't their current arena just a couple years old? I guess the Nets will need another new arena to call home in another couple years...?? You know, to stay fresh?? I wouldn't feel like the move was such a raw deal if they kept the NJ name. The NY Giants, Jets, and Red Bulls play in NJ, after all. I don't know how anyone could be a NY sports fan. Or NJ, really. The sense of community is too diluted, especially when the teams are statewide or they play in a different municipality/state. If NKY got a basketball or hockey arena, I wouldn't want the team to have Cincinnati's name attached. And I would be less of a fan if the Cbus Blue Jackets were the Ohio Blue Jackets. (Or, heaven forbid, if the Reds/Indians/Bengals/Browns/Cavaliers went statewide.) It's one of the fallacies of being a Buckeyes fan, especially if you're not an alum. That new arena in Newark (imho) always seemed more about Devils hockey. Unlike the Nets, the Devils have a strong fanbase and the franchisehas a history of success. p.s. I think you're right ninja that it's harder for statewide teams to attract a core, critical mass of fans. This is especially true in a place like NJ where it's so closely tied to Philadelphia and NYC. Fans of the Flyers and Rangers liked to point out how "lame" NJ was because when the Devils won the Cup, there was no place for a traditional parade. Now they have Newark.
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