Old Yankee Stadium Destructoporn

They're really going through with this thing! After auctioning off everything that wasn't nailed down, and chasing away the vultures, crews are busy demolishing the old home of the Bronx Bombers, piece by piece. For the Yankee Stadium demolition completist, there is a whole website dedicated to the topic. But for the layperson and the casual destructoporn enthusiast, perhaps these recent aerial shots from WCBS's helicopter will suffice. Do these images make you nostalgic, or make you wish you were licensed to operate a wrecking ball? The sooner we get this thing down, the sooner the Bronx gets another park!

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By John Del Signore in News on January 15, 2010 3:46 PM

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Polite New Yorker

Shameful.

zpk

Let me know if they find Hank Steinbrenner's soul.

mdow

It was busy sending $500k to Haiti relief and could not be located for comment. Meantime, Boston and every other shitbag team owner contributed zero. Thank you for your thoughtful comment.

whitecastlerock

pretty nice of him considering all of the fucking tax breaks the Yankees received to build that new stadium they didn't really need...

paulie

The-e-e-e-e-e mdow's win. Nice.

Willie Nillie

FACE!

jaycjay

"make you wish you were licensed to operate a wrecking ball?"

Sadly, they don't really use wrecking balls anymore. But still, a lot of fun could be had at the controls of one of those long-reach excavators in the pictures.

kafkask

wait - why are the tearing it down? I thought they were leaving it as is for history's sake.

longacre

No. They're building a park to replace the ones they paved over to build the new stadium.

valeriob

I can't believe people bought the dirt from this place.

EastRiver

I bet most people don't know that they lowered the field about seven feet during the 1974-75 renovation. You can't pretend that you own dirt that Babe Ruth might have walked on.