{"id":1771,"date":"2006-11-14T03:19:52","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T11:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/how_about_the_william_a_shea_atm_--_sorry_--_the_william_a_shea_citibank_atm.html"},"modified":"2006-11-14T03:19:52","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T11:19:52","slug":"how_about_the_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/how_about_the_w.html","title":{"rendered":"How About The &#8220;William A. Shea ATM&#8221; &#8212; Sorry &#8212; The &#8220;William A. Shea Citibank ATM&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even if Bill Shea loses out entirely, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/14\/sports\/baseball\/14stadium.html?ex=1321160400&#038;en=90020d8b2d8fe77f&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">Jackie Robinson will get a rotunda<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A rotunda honoring the life of Jackie Robinson, Citibank A.T.M.&#8217;s, a 41 percent increase in concessions and enough restaurant capacity to feed 3,134 people are among the features planned for the Mets&#8217; new ballpark, Citi Field, which is scheduled to replace Shea Stadium in 2009, the team announced yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. George E. Pataki, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and other politicians joined the Mets&#8217; principal owner, Fred Wilpon, and several team officials and players yesterday for a ceremonial groundbreaking on a new 42,500-seat stadium. The design for the stadium is inspired by Ebbets Field, the former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, and is expected to cost nearly $800 million.<\/p>\n<p>Under a 20-year sponsorship deal with Citigroup, the stadium will be named Citi Field, displacing the name of William A. Shea. Shea, a lawyer, helped bring National League baseball back to New York in 1962, five years after the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants left. Shea Stadium opened in 1964.<\/p>\n<p>The Mets have encountered some criticism for not naming the new stadium for Robinson, the Dodgers legend who broke baseball&#8217;s color barrier in 1947, but Wilpon said fans would be welcomed into the soaring Jackie Robinson Rotunda, inscribed with this quotation from Robinson: &#8220;A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.&#8221; The rotunda will include a statue, still to be designed, and an exhibition on Robinson&#8217;s life.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A rotunda is a very thoughtful way to remember the man who broke the color barrier in baseball. Almost as thoughtful as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycgovparks.org\/sub_your_park\/historical_signs\/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12050\">a plaza<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if Bill Shea loses out entirely, at least Jackie Robinson will get a rotunda: A rotunda honoring the life of Jackie Robinson, Citibank A.T.M.&#8217;s, a 41 percent increase in concessions and enough restaurant capacity to feed 3,134 people are among the features planned for the Mets&#8217; new ballpark, Citi Field, which is scheduled to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,30,54,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-historical","category-project_mersh","category-queens","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}