So yall gonna make fun of a new york team not playing in NY yet are okay with a NYC team not playing in NYC but "close enough"? Lmao then the cosmos would be the only NY team not bullshitting their fans. Stadium has to be in the five boroughs. otherwise this team isnt NYCFC anymore, just NYFC. Which sounds much lamer and makes all the merch we bought till now obsolete
Stadium Discussion
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You say y'all but pretty sure I am the only one that has wanted Belmont so far. And also, you will never see me make fun of RB for not playing in New York outside of me saying they are from New Jersey. Because they are.
You sort of proved his point. If NYC builds a stadium outside of the boroughs, the team is no longer from the city just as the Red Bull's aren't from NY.
aight i jumped the gun on the yall but cmon there is 484 pages i wasnt about to do roll call and flip through and count lol
Well, I disagree with that point. I think playing in Harrison and playing in a stadium that is literally on the border of Queens is two entirely different things.
We can also agree a stadium outside the city inflicts harm on the franchise as well
I don't live in NY either. I agree no stadium is damaging. But I think building a stadium outside the boroughs would be more damaging than staying in YS.
i think leaving the bronx in general is going to hurt us.
Could be right. I think it depends on where we move to.
I can't believe I'm going on with this completely irrelevant discussion (and not blaming anyone but me for that) but it's Friday and with Yonkers you're discussing my home turf. Born and grew up there and commuted to Manhattan from there to go to high school. Yonkers is served by the subway the same way Belmont is. Which is to say the subway doesn't go there. Some subways come closer to the border than the F does to Belmont but it depends what part of Yonkers you're targeting. I lived literally 5 blocks from the Bronx and my commute to the Upper East Side took a full 55-60 minutes. Westchester buses run into the Bronx to connect to the subway. NYC MTA buses do not do the opposite. The areas with Metro North stations don't all overlap with good highway or subway connections. With all that, I'd love for Yonkers to get the stadium if the club dropped the 5-borough requirement. I just doubt it's better than Belmont.
Yeah, I should say, to amend my earlier statement, that if the NYC area had more suburban subway access the way that, say, the Washington Metro has, I think we could afford to be a little more loose about the city limits requirements. But you go to battle with the subway you have, not the subway you want...
I don't think that's a poison pill, I think that's the only way a Belmont stadium would be anything approaching an acceptable option.
That's reeeeeeaaaaaaly a stretch. You've got a mile walk at least from Van Cortlandt Park on the 1 or Woodlawn on the 4. Maybe the 2 at Wakefield is a touch closer but it's still almost a mile. And all those distances are just to the border, not anywhere in Yonkers itself.
I don't know if leaving the Bronx would hurt us. At least going by Hispanic demographics the Bronx is more Dominican and baseball crazy and Queens has more South Americans and more fútbol fandom. At some point we should consider pandering a bit and targeting a South American star (such as Cuadrado for example) and maybe that would boost attendance if we are in Queens at that point.
I meant it's a poison pill in the sense that it kills the bid because extending the F is not going to happen.Even less possible in any close time frame.
dont worry keep singing esta noche or whatever, well be fine on hispanic demographics
If we signed Juan Cuadrado there would be more Colombia jerseys than NYCFC jerseys. Colombians support there players hard just look at James.
