Stadium Discussion

[NYC Football Fan]

Stadium News or No Season Ticket Renewal

Around season ticket renewal time is when you can expect the franchise to make announcements about a possible stadium. The former Metrostars did this every year around that time and the New England Revolution still do it every year.

Tom Glick talks about a possible stadium in this video:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yankees-ny-soccer-team-try-155724395.html

 

[thesauerchise]

just because we exist in a 24/7/365 news cycle, doesn't mean all business needs to be transacted in public. Before the Internet (I know I sound old) shit was announced when it was set to be announced and not a day before. IMO: stuff I'd happening behind the scenes and when the time Is right we will hear.

 

[D_RoyJenkins]

Well now....
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/s...-columbia-athletic-complex.html?smid=tw-share

 

[LostAnvil]

Well now....
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/s...-columbia-athletic-complex.html?smid=tw-share

man, that's up there - any idea if it'll be a giant pain in the ass to get there?

 

[Gene]

Works for me!

 

[Fantazma]

man, that's up there - any idea if it'll be a giant pain in the ass to get there?

kinda sorta. the A train is a bit of a 10-15 min walk and the 1 train is closer. HOWEVER- on weekends 1 train tends to suck north of 137st.

 

[franchise646]

kinda sorta. the A train is a bit of a 10-15 min walk and the 1 train is closer. HOWEVER- on weekends 1 train tends to suck north of 137st.

As someone who lives north of 150th and uses the 1 all the god dam time I can confirm that statement.

 

[Fantazma]

Well now....
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/s...-columbia-athletic-complex.html?smid=tw-share

im curious if the red bull playing in one of columbias soccer fields caused nycfc to look into that area. or maybe they already had that site on the list just didnt get to it till now. and now info is being leaked.

 

[Lasker]

man, that's up there - any idea if it'll be a giant pain in the ass to get there?

7 minutes farther from grand central than YS on the Hudson line. I'd have to experiment with Google maps a bit but while slightly worse than a location near YS from a transportation point of view I think this would still be better than Queens for most people.

Biggest problem I see is parking. I doubt that there is enough room on site.I think they would have to build something across Broadway or even across the river.Biggest thing in favor of this location from my point of view is that it could potentially have some pretty nice views.

Oh yeah, and it would be walking distance from my apartment.

 

[LionNYC]

Well now....
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/29/s...-columbia-athletic-complex.html?smid=tw-share

Columbia and NYC FC share the same shade of blue. The Bronx option would be a better one though if it can get done.

 

[D_RoyJenkins]

Works for me!

We should start the South Ferry Ultras. A SG that takes the 1 train to the match, we'll gather in the first 5 cars ;-)

 

[Fantazma]

Columbia and NYC FC share the same shade of blue. The Bronx option would be a better one though if it can get done.

as does my own alma mater....but they are in NCAA div 3

 

[Gene]

We should start the South Ferry Ultras. A SG that takes the 1 train to the match, we'll gather in the first 5 cars ;-)

I'm still holding out hope for the YS site, but this one wouldn't be that bad. I just checked the Trip Planner on the MTA web page it would take about 15 minutes more to get to Columbia. A bit tedious, but definitely doable.

 

[LostAnvil]

This wouldn't be a SSS, though, right?

 

[mgarbowski]

Souds like pro soccer, college football, and maybe college soccer as well, which I think could be close enough tosoccer friendly, even if not soccer specific.

 

[mgarbowski]

By the way, this 50 or 60 foot high Columbia Blue "C" (which could easily stand for City as well as Columbia sits across from the sports complex.

 

[NYCFC_Dan]

The article states 17,000 stadium currently. Which obviously isn't the tiny soccer site on the right.
So it would mean tearing down the 'American' football stadium and then sharing the new stadium with the college for both their football teams.

 

[NYCFC_Dan]

Souds like pro soccer, college football, and maybe college soccer as well, which I think could be close enough tosoccer friendly, even if not soccer specific.

I would imagine if we are throwing down $400 mil it WILL be an SSS.

 

[CP_Scouse]

The article states 17,000 stadium currently. Which obviously isn't the tiny soccer site on the right.
So it would mean tearing down the 'American' football stadium and then sharing the new stadium with the college for both their football teams.

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just replace the track field and we good

 

[Buckley]

yeah the article even says its going to be a SSS