Category Archives: Yankee Stadium

The Kid With the Best Commute in the World

Think about this the next time you’re forced to stand on the 6:10 to Outer Whitelandia, or are seated next to the stankin’ homeless guy on the F train. Yankees P.R. guy Kenny Leandry walks all of 46 steps from … Continue reading

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Yankee Stadium Stop Opens May 23

Sticking with today’s baseball theme, the new Yankee Stadium Metro-North stop opens May 23, the railroad announced this morning. The stop will be functional 365 days a year, with special schedules on game day. The project will have taken exactly … Continue reading

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How Fair is Yankee Stadium Fare?

Work is under way on the new Metro-North station at Yankee Stadium, and the railroad has proposed its fare for trips to the stop. Metro-North suggests it be in the same fare zone as all Metro-North stops in the Bronx; in … Continue reading

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Yanks Wish Rookie Hurler Would’ve Stayed Lost

I have a soft spot for major leaguers who ride the subway to Shea or Yankee Stadium; the notion of a guy making several million a year eschewing the team bus for the unknown of the underground pleases me to … Continue reading

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A Peek at Metro-North’s Yankee Stadium Stop

A far cry from the saddest little ballfield in New York is the rebuilt Yankee Stadium, and the Journal News offers a peek at the $91 million Metro-North station stop that’s being built across from the Stadium. The station platform … Continue reading

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‘Mileposts’ Don’t Know Baseball

Amidst all the commuter excitement this week (Floods! Boiled asbestos-spewing geysers in midtown!), we almost forgot to give the latest Mileposts a read. Metro-North’s monthly publication has a baseball theme to it, as it “announces” the pending train station at … Continue reading

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Hipsters Jeer, Bomber Fans Cheer

In today’s commuter news, L train riders will wait until 2010 until an expansion of the L fleet is fully operational, and Yankee fans get their very own Metro-North stop near Yankee stadium around June 2009. The new station will … Continue reading

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