Yankee Stadium's Famed Gate 2 Demolished

Even though fans have been trying to save it, noting its historic significance, Gate 2 of the old Yankees Stadium was demolished yesterday. Via History of the Yankees, here's video:

Fans had hoped to preserve Gate 2 as part of the planned and long-awaited Heritage Park, but Parks officials said it wouldn't work and, last month, a plan to demolish the Gate was approved. Today, one commenter wrote on the Demolition of Yankee Stadium website,

There are so many other ways this could have been handled. I wonder if the person or people who made the decision to handle it this way have any soul at all. Were they ever a baseball fan? What is the rush to make this whatever it is going to be, compared to what it was? When do you think the "light bulb" will go off and they realize they ripped down one of the "Top 10" structures in our country, without one shred of dignity? New York owned what I believe was the most sacred piece of property pertaining to the American past time. They had an opportunity to do something very special, and they blew it. When all is said and done, it will be a park for people who will never know the history they are standing on, and couldn't tell you Mickey Mantle's number if their life depended on it. With all of the things in life we can't control, we take something we can, and screw it up anyway.

More photograph of the destruction here. And the land swap that the city made with the Yankees for the new stadium has been criticized, because it removed 20.8 continuous acres of park space from Bronx residents and left them with eight smaller parks instead.

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By Jen Chung in News on April 1, 2010 4:12 PM

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blackwhole

Mickey Mantle's number was 7. I named my daughter that so I would always remember.

soxinthecity

You named your daughter 7?

Stevennnn

Greed and money always wins out.

With the way the city infrastructure is we didn't need a multi billion dollar stadium to see multi millionaires playing a boy's game.

whitecastlerock

Exactly-they never needed a new stadium. It's a disgrace. Let's lay off teachers, police, firefighters, and close hospitals first! The Yankees need to play baseball is a brand new home. Fucking ridiculous

GalBklyn

Agreed. Not to mention the new and state of the art home for the Mets, Nets.... Jets and Giants. No shame for this crowd. For shame. Our public money being spent for private gain.

Breaks my heart. The loss of an iconic symbol for our city and the lack of empathy and humility from a mayor who should learn the words "by the grace of God go I". Unreal.

DanielJ

Chalk this one up with the original Penn Station as one of the most regrettable demolitions in city history. They must have forgotten that nearly all of the stadium's facade was from the original (pre-renovation) structure. At least some of it should have been preserved.

"We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed."

- Ada Louise Huxtable

JenChungsBaby

Total melancholy watching that video. They should have kept the whole facade along the length of River Avenue and used it as a wall to keep the subway noise out of a park behind it.

theevilone

You are hilarious, cxb.

justthinkin

Hilarious...and spot on. In that tin-foil kind of way that actually makes sense. You just have to be able to read between the wrinkles in the foil.

cxb

Oh, so what I write doesn't make COMPLETE SENSE, period?

Do tell!

FUN FACT:

Bloombag PROMISED not a penny of taxmoney would go to stadiums in order to get elected in 2001. (This is also Felony FRAUD.)

If I just wrote empty funny shit on here, would some of you like me more?

[Bloombag's trolls try to think of a smart answer but fail...]

cxb

Remember sheeple...

even Bloombag's ENEMIES say the new Yankee Stadium was a billion-dollar scam, which IS WRONG.

Bloomberg actually stole over $4 BILLION from you suckers.

(EX: the PILOTS scam is too complex for most sheep to understand. IN short, Steinbrenner doesn't have to pay taxes to tax coffers. Instead, he gets to divert that cash --- YOUR CASH --- to pay off the construction loans!)

THE ONLY THING MORE OUTRAGEOUS than this scam, is that they pulled off this scam every single day of every single year in recorded history, in one form or another.

Ie, you'd have to be brain-dead to fall for it again.

And again.

Adn again.

BloombergSCANDALS.blogspot.com

cxb

IT wasn't until Boss Tweed was OUT of power before the media told the truth about him.

It wasn't until Bernie Kerik was OUT of power before the media told the truth about him.

It wasn't until Tax Hike MIke Bloombag was OUT of power before the media told the truth about him.

WHY do you think Bloomberg refuses to leave City Hall?

He's learned from the past!

FunChop

Can we ban this dude?

I mean seriously, I thought that Felix was annoying but this cxb CHARACTER takes the cake.

cxb

You mean a MORON wants to censor me?

Um, that kind of cancels ITSELF OUT, no?

a) No one says you have to read my posts, idiot.

b) my posts are always articulate and raise insightful points, no?

c) if I was doing something WRONG you'd have listed this but you didn't. Your post is VAGUE and EMPTY, implying there's a GREAT CHANCE you're a troll for...

TAX HIKE MIKE!

(If you were the richest man in NYC and cared only about your image over substance, would you PAY people --- probably with TAXdollars, claiming it's for the benefit of your administration --- to defend you virally? OF COURSE YOU WOULD.)

Better luck next time, Skyler!

xoxoxox,

CXB