Are you saying we should put an empanada shop in the middle of our parking lot? Because I don't know how I feel about that.
Stadium Discussion
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I for one am completely in favor of a drive-through parking lot empanada stand.
I like Barclays more than MSG. Fight me.
Approve this message, now if we can have a real team play in the Barclays that would be nice.
A sports complex would be ideal from a marketing perspective, as well as an economic perspective. Having multiple venues share the cost and usage of parking and other infrastructure makes a stadium much more viable. I don't see any independent, stand alone stadium being viable for a 17 event per year club if we have to pay for the parking infrastructure and don't have a bunch of other events to utilize those garages.
There's one option we've failed to give serious consideration to. The Ferdinand von Zepplin memorial stadium concept or the Igor Sikorsky memorial stadium concept. Something like what I attached.
Basically if we need to think outside of the box, lets think really outside of the box, I wonder if the spire of the Empire State Building can still work as a sky anchor; with enough modification.
Basically if we need to think outside of the box, lets think really outside of the box, I wonder if the spire of the Empire State Building can still work as a sky anchor; with enough modification.
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Can someone explain to me why I've seen so many negative responses regarding the lack of access to the site? Are there few transportation options or is it just not easily accessible from everywhere as opposed to a Bronx/Yankee Stadium location?
Seeing a lot of people saying it would be a 3 hour round trip commute.
Seeing a lot of people saying it would be a 3 hour round trip commute.
From Brooklyn it's a total bitch to get to. Gotta go into Manhattan first and then back out to the far end of Queens. A very timely commute.
Alternatively, the Bronx is reachable by two different subway lines (with lots of others feeding those two) fromBrooklyn.
The northern suburb people who take the Metro North trains would be hit the hardest and it could be 3 hours. Long Island suburbs would see travel time shortened considerably. Most of Manhattan would have a longer trip but nothing unbearable. Brooklyn could be bad depending on where. There are even parts of Queens where this would be a haul but so is the Bronx. All of the above is assuming mass transit. Driving to that part of Queens from the north burbs is meaningfullybut not substantially less convenient than the Bronx.
I got an hour and twenty minutes each way when I mapped it during the week, which means it'll probably be three hours round trip on weekends for me as well.
Park slope is a decent hood. But it's really not quick to get anywhere else from there.
Whenever I have friends that move there, they become old friends.
1) Getting anywhere in New York is miserable.
2) If you are worried about this site and live north of the city, drive. Very few places up here where you don't need a car. It's an easy ride.
