Category: Yankee Stadium

I dropped by Yankee Stadium yesterday, where the pace of demolition is picking up as the June completion date nears. (Not to mention, cynics might note, opening day, by when the Yankees might like to have the picked-apart corpse of the House That Ruth Built out of sight as much as possible.) The left-field grandstand has a large hole in it now, and several deep gashes where work crews are preparing to take down more sections.

There’s also a growing crowd of people on the nearby #4 elevated train platform, snapping a few photos but mostly watching the demolition in grim silence. Yesterday I met an off-duty policeman who said the scene was “sad,” and that he’d worked the final game at the old stadium; he also pointed out the old Yankee logo etched into the exterior outfield wall, now exposed for the first time in decades by the demolition crews. (See more photos below the jump, click to enlarge).

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New demolition photos of Yankee Stadium and Texas Stadium. Yankee Stadium is slated to be completely razed by this summer, with construction on a new public park on the site to finally begin at that point; Texas Stadium will be imploded in a shower of processed cheese on April 11.

Yankee Stadium’s Gate 2, interestingly, seems to be more or less still standing, though the part of the grandstand that was behind it is now gone. So it’s possible that the city Parks Department is still considering the plan to preserve it as a memorial to the stadium, though that will likely depend on whether anyone can find money to do so — especially given that New York City has enough money troubles of its own these days.