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 Welcome to YankeesStayHome.com, the official website of Friends of Yankee Stadium. Yankee Stadium, the historic home of the New York Yankees since 1923, is under siege! Despite setting attendance records in the last two years and drawing close to 4 million fans in 2004, the Yankees are proposing to replace Yankee Stadium with a facility that would have fewer seats and more luxury boxes. While the Yankees claim that they would pay for a new stadium themselves, they also admit that they would need $300 million in taxpayers' money for "improvements" and would build directly on top of 16 acres of one of the few areas of recreational greenspace available to residents of the South Bronx. Should there be development in the Bronx? Of course. Does it need to involve tearing down a usable and important part of the Bronx's history? No! In countless places across the country, progressive thinking governments and developers use their historic buildings to anchor restoration and redevelopment efforts. The Bronx deserves the best and that's the real Yankee Stadium, not a phony replica! |
