The building facade needs to be maintained as its a landmark which would make it too small for a stadium.
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"Welcome to Kingsbridge" has a nice ring to it
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Would be awesome. Maybe they can fit it and be creative, something like the old Olympic Stadium in Stockholm or the Rasunda stadium.
Would our nickname change to the knights or bridge keepers or gate keepers?
God I'd love that location. (Long and uphill) march to the stadium from my apt/remaining local irish bars, eat some tasty Vietnamese on the way.
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NYCFCfan 's point about the facade, the accessibility from Metro North is poor and parking would be difficult unless they were able to work out a deal to build multi-level parking at the VA hospital nearby. Maybe they could do something crazy like the Hearst building and have stands emerge from the facade?
I think the space is too tight, no possibility for any parking and, despite not being all that far away from Yankee Stadium, only mass transit is the 4 local, which could possibly work if there were parking, but without parking the station would get overwhelmed.
The 4 station at Yankee Stadium is already far overwhelmed for the first few trains after matches. Surprised nobody's gotten pushed onto the tracks yet as the platform is far too narrow to hold that many people on it. The weird thing is that at the rear of the train there always plenty of room and you can even get a seat almost every time. It's just that it's so crowded in the middle that it's hard to get back there.
Compare that to the Willets Point station which has a super-wide platform.
Same thing is true of the D train, but at the front. Let's just keep that btw ourselves tho.
Willets Point was expanded twice -- once for each of the the World's Fairs in 1939 and 1964.
161st Street station was built a few years before Yankee Stadium was opened and is relatively the same today as it was when opened (although they added more stairs at the ends of the platform after the Stadium was built).
Does Miami play its first game in their soccer specific stadium in Overtown before NYC does in theirs?
Definitely a lack of foresight not to make them about 5' deeper. As already mentioned, I'm amazed nobody has been accidentally pushed on to the tracks due to crowding - I'm nervous as hell if waiting by the edge with it packed and a train approaching.
Has Beckham formally exercised his option yet? I can't remember if he did so, or it was a handshake that he would once the stadium site was obtained???
There are plenty of problems with this location but I don't think subway access is one of them. The 4 is the closest but the D is only a very short walk away as well.
Stadium site is purchased. Zoning is next.
http://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2016/...acquires-land-needed-new-miami-soccer-stadium
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Just saw the black text w/o the accompanying source post or the link and almost pee'ed myself from excitement. Curse you! Please don't use words like that in this thread if it's not for our stadium. It plays with my emotions too much.
It's not about the number of stations, it's the number of lines and the capacity of the stations. Those are two small, low capacity, local train, lots of stops from Manhattan stations that would not be able to handle 25,000+ for a game. And they will need to handle that many as there is no reasonable parking.
All of the other large capacity venues are at transportation hubs with big stations, multiple lines or both.
This is undoubtedly true. Anyone ever try to leave Red Bull Arena right after a match from the Harrison PATH station? It's a total nightmare.
Leave at the whistle, arrive early, etc. There are ways to not have to deal with it, even with staying to the whistle.
