June 14, 2005
Yankees to announce plans for new stadium
The New York Yankees tomorrow are expected to announce a deal with the city that will allow the baseball club to build an $800 million ballpark next to their existing stadium.
The new field would have more luxury boxes, wider concourses, and a capacity of at least 50,800 - about 6,000 fewer seats than the existing stadium, according to the Associated Press. It would open in time for the 2009 season.
Yankee Stadium, built in 1923, is one of the oldest major-league parks still in use. The only older ones are Boston's Fenway Park (1912) and Chicago's Wrigley Field (1914). However the country's oldest section of any former major league ballpark is in Brooklyn, standing completely unmarked at a ConEdison facility near the Gowanus Canal. The remnants of the Dodgers' left-field wall can be seen on 3rd Avenue, or at Forgotten New York.
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June 14, 2005 10:30 PM in Sports
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