And it looks like the mall in rockland county. If its Citifield why is all that othershit on the outside of the stadium. Place looks like shit
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And it looks like the mall in rockland county. If its Citifield why is all that othershit on the outside of the stadium. Place looks like shit
Yankees consistently top 5 in attendance per game year in year out. This season is no different.
http://espn.go.com/mlb/attendance
Haven't been 1st since 2010, season after winning WS. 2008 before that, last season in old Yankee Stadium. Either way, I responded to a post that said "Nobody goes to Yankee games" an obvious falsehood.
Id rather go to Jersey than Queens.
How horrible would it be if after everything they just decided that we would share with RBNJ.
Have you ever tried driving to Citi Field from Westchester for a Friday game? In my experience, unless you can leave by early- to mid-afternoon, you can risk missing a game. Assuming we'll probably have on average 2 Friday night home games a year (this year we have 4 Fri games, with one at home -- I just assume it will average out to 2/year over the long-haul), that could suck.
There's already one team in New Jersey that no one in the city supports. The MLS doesn't need a second!
I would like to point out that geographically speaking, northwest Queens is the most "central" location in the 5 boros.
I haven't taken the train to YS yet because I've only gone with friends who are drivers thus far - but when I used to go to the south bronx to visit friends I remember that ride on the 6 train felt eternal.
My opinion is incredibly biased here, but I don't really think that the team who is labelling themselves the real "city" team should be going out of their way to accommodate the fans who are coming in from outside the five boros, including LI/Westchester/whatever else is up there above the Bronx.
I took a minute and looked at the Sunnyside train yards when I passed by - there's no way a stadium is gonna fit there. But if it did, I would do backflips. Then when the construction and drunken arseholes annoyed me I'd turn NIMBY.
I haven't taken the train to YS yet because I've only gone with friends who are drivers thus far - but when I used to go to the south bronx to visit friends I remember that ride on the 6 train felt eternal.
My opinion is incredibly biased here, but I don't really think that the team who is labelling themselves the real "city" team should be going out of their way to accommodate the fans who are coming in from outside the five boros, including LI/Westchester/whatever else is up there above the Bronx.
I took a minute and looked at the Sunnyside train yards when I passed by - there's no way a stadium is gonna fit there. But if it did, I would do backflips. Then when the construction and drunken arseholes annoyed me I'd turn NIMBY.
I've never driven it specifically for a game, but I thought most of the traffic was going in the other direction at that time.
As Adam pointed out, there IS a train for those in Westchester to Citi. It's a long ride, but it's equivalent to what we have now with LIRR to Yankee Stadium.
Those MetroNorth monthly riders can still use their passes, they just need to pay the subway fare from GCP to Willets Point. Not a lot of grounds for bellyaching, since LIRR riders are in the same circumstance now.
Of course, from the club/FO perspective, there's a pretty huge difference between making the stadium more accessible to LIRR riders:
Nassau/Suffolk population 2.9 M
Westchester/Rockland 1.3 M
Nobody's stopping you. I hear they even have a soccer team waiting...Id rather go to Jersey than Queens.
I'd rather draw some lines in Central Park and play there than share a stadium with NYRB.
My impression of NYC rush hour traffic is that it is omnidirectional.
Traffic over the Whitestone and around the airport make a drive to Flushing a bit tougher and less reliable, but it's not awful. Yankee Stadium is definitely an easier trip. Driving to Flushing is much much quicker than the train. It's also quicker to Yankee Stadium if they aren't running direct trains (which they don't for soccer).
Moving the stadium out of the area it is currently in is a risk not worth taking. The current location is a proven success, although queens may also be a success there is some uncertainty and risk there. We know the Bronx works based on attendance numbers so far, no need to mess with that. I would expect FO does everything possible to build in the same vicinity.
