You have me confused with someone else, I like when the stadium thread derails, since all the on-topic stadium stuff has been so insane.
Stadium Discussion
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What are your top real ten cities in the world?
You can't drive at Baker Field and there's nowhere to park. Access is only via Broadway but Marble Hill is crowded and Broadway Bridge is tiny. Inwood is a very active residential area so there's no street parking. The only option would be to build a car park over the railway sidings to the southwest and bus people from there (or make them walk half a mile). Access would be via the Major Deegan and University Heights Bridge.
If NYC did share with Columbia then there would have to be a running track.
I've run and been to events at Randall's Island and the only reasonable way to get there is to walk over the bridge. The busses are always full. If you grab a cab or drive from Manhattan you have to pay an $8 toll to get to the Island. There is lots of car parking nearby though.
If NYC did share with Columbia then there would have to be a running track.
I've run and been to events at Randall's Island and the only reasonable way to get there is to walk over the bridge. The busses are always full. If you grab a cab or drive from Manhattan you have to pay an $8 toll to get to the Island. There is lots of car parking nearby though.
If we use Baker Field, parking will be a big issue. One option is to find space directly across the river and have people make the short walk across the bridge. The advantage is that the spot would be close to the highway and would avoid adding traffic to Inwood streets.
I live close to the area it can if the public transportation is upgrade and honestly the businesses in the area could really use it.
Reading between the lines, it doesn't look good for an announcement in the near future.
"we're looking at lots and lots of sites."
"we're not in a hurry."
"we're hopeful to be open in the first 5 years."
That would be interesting but it's definitely hard to compare sports. Baseball has 81 home games compared to our 17, for example. Football's sort of comparable except that the stadiums are easily two or three times the size of a soccer stadium. Maybe basketball or hockey might be more similar size-wise but they play more games.
Anyway, total attendance 2014 Yankees was 3,401,624, tops in the AL. Mets were 2,148,808. We might get to 400,000, or maybe a little higher.
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurybr...e-in-2014-nearly-74-million-through-the-gate/
and also a comparison among the different sports:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major...28regular_season.29_vs._other_US_major_sports
Clearly the next president of the United States!!!!
Who's with me?!?!??
Hey guys! Where'd you go? I thought we were gonna do this. No?
fuck sharing a stadium with a football team though, I want it to be built SOCCER SPECIFIC..ie extremely close to the pitch with nice sight lines, I don't want to be sitting up super high in the front row like you do in most football stadiums
Nobody goes to Columbia football games anyhow. They haven't won since November 10, 2012. They didn't win a game the past two season and have gone 0-20. It would be built with soccer primarily in mind. Look at what Tottenham just agreed to with the NFL, 10 years of NFL games in their new stadium, two per year. Turf on the bottom and grass on top and the surfaces would be retractable. If it can work in the Premier League with the NFL, it can work with the MLS and an Ivy League school. And Tottenham isn't designing their stadium with the NFL primarily in mind.
