12/02/08

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New Yankee Stadium replacement park a tough pitch

A rendering of the new Yankee Stadium

The Bloomberg administration has opened a new ballfield and park in the South Bronx as part of a plan to compensate for the 25 acres of parkland lost to the new Yankee Stadium, but the plan has not yet yielded any real gains in open space, according to critics. The new $2.4 million park at P.S. 29, at 758 Courtlandt Avenue, now has dugouts, bleachers, a handball court and fake turf, but the space is one mile away from the parkland that was taken away. The city's replacement plan is mapped out across 12.5 acres of land that had already been designated as parkland.

More at: [Metro]