Stadium Discussion
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Could you just imagine a USMNT WCQ or WC send-off match in Manhattan? Holy crud.
Governor's Island has way too many issues with getting people in and out. Plus it is primarily state land which adds more problems not less. Just not a good site by any means.
Around that area is ConEdison plant. It looks ugly maybe the neighbors can be convinced that a stadium will make their hood look beautiful. On 15th and 16th St, and Second Avenue there are several hospitals: Hospital for Joint Disease , Beth Israel and further East- south is Loisada( Lower East Side Avenues A, B, C) neighborhood which used to house low income NewYorker's and now its gentrified. And further south to the East River The 3 bridges (Williams , Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges) which are so iconic to NYC.
A lovely stadium can be done tastefully like YS. that looks more like a museam. Citi field is an ugly structure. I wish they had kept the older 1960's World Fair look. When you drove through the Grand Central , it had the look of a mysterious woods with the globe and the spaceships. I currently have no idea if the museum still there or was totally demolished?
You been reading the New York Post and Andrea Peyser. I read it too once in a blue moon.
did you see last Monday's cover page the bum and his peeing Tom?
Citi Field looks almost exactly like Ebbets Field. They did it that way on purpose.
And yup, the museums are still there. The Queens Museum and the Unisphere on one side of the highway and the New York Hall of Science with the rockets on the other.
Citi Field looks almost exactly like Ebbets Field. They did it that way on purpose.
And yup, the museums are still there. The Queens Museum and the Unisphere on one side of the highway and the New York Hall of Science with the rockets on the other.
Thanks for the nice postcards pictures and the update - glad the museum still there, reminds me of my childhood school trips and the awful peanut butter sandwichs. Sorry to harp on the ugliness of CitiField -Postcard pics are retouched and it looks nice. But Look at this place in broad sunny , blue sky daylight- it's still ugly the metal part shows through, it looks like cadaverous metal dinosaur.
This is a crazy as a rumor you're going to get, but I saw some young folks with Columbia Lions football shirts helping with NYCFC staff run some of the on field operations for the Montreal game.
I'll repeat: PEOPLE WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY APPAREL WERE ON THE FIELD WITH NYCFC BADGES.
Also, Vampire Weekend was played during the pregame, so you know that this is locked up.
I'll repeat: PEOPLE WITH COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY APPAREL WERE ON THE FIELD WITH NYCFC BADGES.
Also, Vampire Weekend was played during the pregame, so you know that this is locked up.
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Citi Field looks almost exactly like Ebbets Field. They did it that way on purpose.
And yup, the museums are still there. The Queens Museum and the Unisphere on one side of the highway and the New York Hall of Science with the rockets on the other.
I have not been to the new Shea, but from the highway it looks like that shopping mall on the other side of the
Van Wyck
I managed to miss that. Thankfully?You been reading the New York Post and Andrea Peyser. I read it too once in a blue moon.
An interesting fact about our current stadium. Goals galore. There must be something in the New York water that fucks up defenses.
"Short narrow field sucks, not real soccer, everything's so crammed, forces teams to play different, blah, blah, blah..."
It's exactly what MLS needs to make that next big jump.
This explains many things. Play in a baseball stadium, get baseball scores. Makes sense.
