So SFPhoto just explained the naivety that goes into playing armchair civil engineer, thinking one can just sit at home on Google Maps and plan an SSS locale. With that disclaimer in place, Imma do it anyway.
The location is just south of the Shore (Belt) Pkwy, across the pkwy from the Coney Island rail yards. It is far from my ideal location, b/c of distance from center city. It's towards the end of one spoke of the NYC transit system. That said, I'm getting a little nervous about the club looking outside the boroughs, so it's worth considering this location's redeeming factors:
1) 6-7 minute walk from subway station
2) Adjacent to a major parkway (alleviates the zoning requirement that it be near an arterial hwy; reduces the amount of traffic burden on neighborhood streets). Could have an entry/exit directly from the Pkwy as with CitiField.
3) Currently vacant space (though unclear on who owns the rights to it). Assuming it's not public land, it gets around the parks issue and the leasing/purchasing public land issue, which have been raised as objections in the past.
First off, here's a map with the dimensions of a current MLS SSS used as a proxy, but increased to account for the difference between their field size, and the maxium dimensions allowed by FIFA (100 yds W x 130 yds L).
The white line is the approximate stadium perimeter, the yellow box is the field:
Map showing walk from the subway. The D, F, N and Q all stop there. There would have to be a pedestrian walkway connecting W 12th st with the stadium across the creek. The connection would cover about a 300 ft distance.
Here is a wider area map to put the location into context. Red pin at the bottom is the location:
Here is a view of the space from Shore Pkwy:
The location is just south of the Shore (Belt) Pkwy, across the pkwy from the Coney Island rail yards. It is far from my ideal location, b/c of distance from center city. It's towards the end of one spoke of the NYC transit system. That said, I'm getting a little nervous about the club looking outside the boroughs, so it's worth considering this location's redeeming factors:
1) 6-7 minute walk from subway station
2) Adjacent to a major parkway (alleviates the zoning requirement that it be near an arterial hwy; reduces the amount of traffic burden on neighborhood streets). Could have an entry/exit directly from the Pkwy as with CitiField.
3) Currently vacant space (though unclear on who owns the rights to it). Assuming it's not public land, it gets around the parks issue and the leasing/purchasing public land issue, which have been raised as objections in the past.
First off, here's a map with the dimensions of a current MLS SSS used as a proxy, but increased to account for the difference between their field size, and the maxium dimensions allowed by FIFA (100 yds W x 130 yds L).
The white line is the approximate stadium perimeter, the yellow box is the field:
Map showing walk from the subway. The D, F, N and Q all stop there. There would have to be a pedestrian walkway connecting W 12th st with the stadium across the creek. The connection would cover about a 300 ft distance.
Here is a wider area map to put the location into context. Red pin at the bottom is the location:
Here is a view of the space from Shore Pkwy:
