{"id":277,"date":"2010-04-30T09:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/?p=277"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T17:06:12","slug":"that_took_care_of_that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/2010\/04\/30\/that_took_care_of_that\/","title":{"rendered":"That Took Care Of That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we last saw Old Yankee Stadium in August 2009 it looked like this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/oldyankeestadium\/2008-14-09.jpg\" alt=\"Yankee Stadium From The Major Deegan Expressway, The Bronx, August 14, 2009\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demolitionofyankeestadium.com\/\">checking in<\/a> to make sure there was still something left to visit, we decided to go at least one last time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/04-29-10\/index.htm\">to capture the demolition process<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/04-29-10\/4404-29-10.jpg\" alt=\"Old Yankee Stadium Demolition From 153rd Street Garage, The Bronx, April 29, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/04-29-10\/4504-29-10.jpg\" alt=\"Old Yankee Stadium Demolition From 153rd Street Garage, The Bronx, April 29, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/04-29-10\/4604-29-10.jpg\" alt=\"Old Yankee Stadium Demolition From 153rd Street Garage, The Bronx, April 29, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/04-29-10\/4704-29-10.jpg\" alt=\"Old Yankee Stadium Demolition From 153rd Street Garage, The Bronx, April 29, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/04-29-10\/8504-29-10.jpg\" alt=\"Old Yankee Stadium Demolition From Southbound 4 Train Platform, 161 St-Yankee Stadium Station, The Bronx, April 29, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also nice to see that they finally opened the long awaited running track (on top of a parking garage) that replaced what was formerly on the site of New Yankee Stadium:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/04-29-10\/2204-29-10.jpg\" alt=\"New Yankee Stadium From New Joseph Yancey Track and Field, The Bronx, April 29, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/04-29-10\/2304-29-10.jpg\" alt=\"New Joseph Yancey Track and Field, The Bronx, April 29, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While they&#8217;re still taking apart the old stadium, you can get good views of it from what I&#8217;m calling &#8220;New Joseph Yancey Track and Field&#8221; (the aforementioned running track) &#8212; &#8220;New&#8221; because just like &#8220;Old&#8221; Yankee Stadium <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/sub_your_park\/historical_signs\/hs_historical_sign.php?id=11685\">there was also an &#8220;Old&#8221; Joseph Yancey Track and Field<\/a> &#8212; and the upper levels of the 153rd Street Garage (the one directly south of Old Yankee Stadium &#8212; one stairwell, the one closest to River Avenue, was open yesterday when I went).<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and someone needs to fix this (just when you get a chance!):<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/bigmap\/bronx\/yankeestadium\/04-29-10\/7904-29-10.jpg\" alt=\"MTA Neighborhood Map Showing Old Yankee Stadium, 161 St-Yankee Stadium Station, The Bronx, April 29, 2010\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we last saw Old Yankee Stadium in August 2009 it looked like this: After checking in to make sure there was still something left to visit, we decided to go at least one last time to capture the demolition process: Also nice to see that they finally opened the long awaited running track (on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_bronx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}