So odd that his standard for a bad stadium for the community (Sofi) is one of the handful in this country that the community didn’t have to pay a dime for.Anyone know further details about this?
Stadium — USL to Brooklyn
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Anyone know further details about this?
Stadium — USL to Brooklyn
i think i have seen a twitter account with a similar name, but it just feels like a random person ( or group) wanting a team but nothing more.
not saying it cant happen but i read before that USL gives rights to a team for a specific market and doesnt really allow two USL teams in same market ( assuming they think as nyc as a whole as one market)
If you go all the way down to the bottom, they list a Sears/KMart/parking lot site that's right behind the Kings Theatre for those of you who know the area. I'm pretty sure the Sears is permanently closing (if it hasn't already). If you get the stores out of the way, that might not be a bad spot to cram a stadium into...Anyone know further details about this?
Stadium — USL to Brooklyn
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That location wouldn't qualify for the required stadium special permit - too close to a residential zoning district.
Oh that's a shame. Could have been a cool stadium with some unique features that went there given the irregular shape of the lot. Maybe our new mayor can pull some strings
The Sears/Kmart parking lot site would destroy the customer base in Queens, and probably northern suburbs and LI, and maybe even the Bronx and Upper Manhattan. There are multiple close subways, but per google maps, my mass transit trip from a point in Queens less than 10 miles away would be about 90 minutes, roughly the same as going to RBA, because I still have to go to and through Manhattan, with at least one switch, to get there. I can't drive because it has no parking because you're building over the parking lot. I'm not riding bus and subways 3 hours (probably longer on weekends or late at night) for a soccer game.
The geography of NYC is unforgiving. Putting aside current uses and availability, if you don't want to exclude substantial parts of just the City itself, you're limited to Manhattan, maybe half of the Bronx, very NW Brooklyn, and very West Queens (including to a lesser extent parts of the 7 or E-F-R subway corridors). The same reasons those work are why they also are the most expensive and heavily developed locations with hardly any available open space.
You could put a Brooklyn specific USL club at the Sears location, just as QFC is building at a site useful pretty much only to Queens. But a MLS club for the entire city could not build in either location.
The geography of NYC is unforgiving. Putting aside current uses and availability, if you don't want to exclude substantial parts of just the City itself, you're limited to Manhattan, maybe half of the Bronx, very NW Brooklyn, and very West Queens (including to a lesser extent parts of the 7 or E-F-R subway corridors). The same reasons those work are why they also are the most expensive and heavily developed locations with hardly any available open space.
You could put a Brooklyn specific USL club at the Sears location, just as QFC is building at a site useful pretty much only to Queens. But a MLS club for the entire city could not build in either location.
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Biggest mistake was partnering up with Yankees. They literally does nothing for this team and if they partnered up with Mets they might have been able to build a stadium next to Citi.
And we'd have had years of good burgers during matches. It's a no brainer. Or woulda been, I suppose.
And drives to games would have been ridiculously easy for me from both suffolk county and my home. (though marginally worse for
Sabo and our other upstate friends)
Speaking as a Mets Fan. I tend to think the Wilpons would have figured out a way to blow it even worse than the Yankees. This is a family that managed to build a stadium in the 21st century that with all the technology available still has large areas with obstructed views of the field. And Madoff. And Bobby Bonilla. The team would probably be in Raleigh by now.
Also as Mets fan I think you need to add…
This is a family who gained their wealth in real estate and still managed to build a stadium in the 21st century that with all the technology available still has large areas with obstructed views of the field. No matter how bad Cohen turns out, I won’t miss those clowns.
It's interesting that both NY baseball stadiums were lessened by their fetishizing owners. The Wilpons wanted Ebbets Field II and the Steinbrenner's wanted to replicate OYS as much as they could.
Still think Citi is lightyears ahead of Yankee Stadium in visual appeal, though.
I agree. Visually citi field looks so homely and fun! YS feels like a giant colliseum which makes sense I guess
I take it you're using the British version of homely to describe Citi Field.
The best description for Yankee Stadium I say is that "it's an amusement park where sometimes sports are played"
LOL wait what?! The American one is a use of the word 'homely'?!?!?!?! yeah, i meant the british one. (actually I'm thinking of the word heimishe but obviously that's not a good word to use here)
Unless you are Sitting in the upper deck and cant see a huge swath of fair territory. YS has no charm but it also doesn’t have massive blind spots.
blind spots are for spectators who come just for shake shack.
I think the American English word you meant was "homey".
Yankee Stadium for soccer has many, many blind spots. Many places where you can't see a corner and some where you can't see two.
