Nothing fancy,just total fun.I rode every trail ride I could,That and played in the creek behind where the pools were. Tim Stackpole a 9-11 Fire Fighter Hero of the F.D.N.Y. vacationed there with his family. In 2000 I looked into buying the land. On trips upstate with my kids we drove past it many times even tried to just walk in off the road, we were chased by an agitated male maybe late 30's. No one wanted to say a word about if the land was for sale or not.. . If I had bought it I would have named the Big Building,office,dining facility rec hall,tavern, after Tim.74 years old and every summer then Shap come alive in my memory.
Great video. Unfortunately these day's, the firefighting family legacies are coming to an end. More and more younger folk are aspiring to do cushy "tech bro" type jobs with three times the pay a firefighter makes. This was 15 years ago when people still wanted to be a firefighter. Now, fire departments across the country are struggling just to find applicants. People these day's simply don't want to risk life and limb for 47K a year.
To this day I still can't understand why they built the new stadium. There was NOTHING wrong with the old one. It was filled with so much history. The new stadium ain't worth crap !
What could have been a *lovely* video about the new Yankee stadium, has become a total screw up. Slides are *way* too fast. Would anyone have died, making it [say] 8 minutes?
My dad was in this business in JFRD for 26 years, and retired safely,I'm gonna follow in his footsteps, there is no other job where you can slide down a pole, into a big red truck, roar off to a building that is 1100 degrees wearing around 100 pounds of gear.
Frank sings, "I'm leaving today..." Hey Steinbrenner family, he's singing to you...take the hint. Ruppert built the Original Stadium because the Yankees needed it...Steinbrenner built the new Stadium because HE WANTED IT.
CCOYS BRING BABE BACK TO THE BRONX...and say Happy Anniversary to the Original Yankee Stadium (April 18,1923- April 18, 2013). Now, lets get Babe's statue in OLD YANKEE STADIUM FIELDS AT MacCMBS DAM PARK (near Babe Ruth Field)...or across the street in Babe's Plaza.
I hate the Yankees, but the original Yankee Stadium was one of the few remaining monuments to baseball. This place is just another shopping mall ballpark.
@Hood52crew your one of those yankee fans that rub the 27 titles in everyones face they didnt have rings in the 30s 40s 50s or 60s dont know nothing about the yankees besides they win world series
It's only tax-exempt bonds that the Yankees are paying back. If if they didn't use text-exempt bonds, this whole thing wouldn't have been possible because it would cost double the price. In the end, the whole thing is being paid for by the Yankees, except for the new parking garage.
Baseball allegiances aside, I have to commend the Yankees on their new stadium. It's one for the ages. As for the use of public money - well spent. Local businesses and all those public services you mentioned will benefit directly from increased sales and indirectly from the revenue raised from the sales taxes. I'm a fiscal conservative, but I believe this is a wise use of public money.
It seems disgraceful that they used public money to build it. It looks like a brilliant stadium, but wouldn't the money of been better spent on public services that everyone can enjoy.
hahahahahhaha! Twins fan! How cute. i hope you plan to bring your winter coat and snow shovel to your games in april. Im done making comments to you, because its a waste of my time. Have a lovely night. Sweet Heart.
The presentation is an animation that was made in 2005 to show what opening day in 2009 might look like. It is the presentation that was used by people involved in the construction & building industry to see what the finished product MIGHT look like.
Fabio...even as a Red Sox fan, I hate to see the old stadium demolished, but the Hall Of Fame has always been in Cooperstown, and is often referred to simply as "Cooperstown". With all due respect,the old stadium is hardly the most historical sports venue. That would be Fenway Park. Yankee Stadium, after the 1976 remodel,looks nothing like it originally did.
I cant stand the new stadium. I was in it and itz a hotel without rooms. Restaurants open all year round. yea, just go to yankee stadium to get some steak in the middle of winter. plus the prices, dont get me started. also, every section is seperated. you you cant walk around it anymore. plus, get this, THERES A MARTINI BAR! R U FRIGGIN KIDDIN ME? the old yankee stadium should have been made a historic landmark like the statue of liberty in my opinion. its never gonna be the same
ive been to the old one once and i have to say it was just so damn cramped in da upper deck. it looks like a nice stadium but its a chunk of concrete, couldnt they make a bit more eye pleasing. from what i see its a much better than yankee stadium.
I read somewhere Rudy Giuliani was going to have it that way but when Blumberg took over as mayor the plan was canceld so they won't have retractable roofs.
Wasn't there talk about making this stadium and the Mets new stadium both retractable roof stadiums? Is that still the plan or are neither of these stadiums going to have that?
