Yankee Stadium

Homerun: Baby Born at Yankee Stadium Subway

Yesterday morning it seems that a little boy just couldn't wait to get to Yankee Stadium. According to CBS News, Tamika Snipe, 21, was heading to the hospital around 10 a.m. to deliver her third child on her due date, when she started experiencing serious labor pains on the subway. Snipe got off th ... More >>

TRAIN DREAMS

The NY Botanical Garden makes the city in miniature

Live: Madonna Brings Her Set Pieces, Sex Pieces, And Masterpieces To Yankee Stadium

Madonna w/ Avicii Yankee Stadium Thursday, September 6 Better than: The VMAs. If ever you need a concise summary of Madonna's year, the billing for her New York dates will do nicely. There's Madonna, her name in no way styled to resemble that of a party drug. And there's Avicii, a Swedish stadium- ... More >>

Live: Roger Waters Brings A Super-Sized The Wall To The Bronx

Roger Waters Yankee Stadium Friday, July 6 Better than: The Yanks taking three of four from the Red Sox. Size matters. Roger Waters proved this Friday night at Yankee Stadium when he put on his biggest-yet production of one of the biggest albums of all time, his former band Pink Floyd's double-LP ... More >>

Roger Waters

Anthrax

Bronx Beep to Yanks: Pave Parking Lot, Put Up Hotel Paradise

Diaz' Facebook profile pic: Only 602 saves short of Mo.​With the new ballfields intended to replace those bulldozed five years ago to make way for Yankee Stadium: The Next Generation finally nearing completion — look, you can even see them now on Google Maps! — it's time to finally ... More >>

'The Big 4'

Live: Paul McCartney Has More Hits Than Derek Jeter

Paul McCartney Yankee Stadium Friday, July 15 Better than: Watching Let It Be. "Who's this Derek Jeter guy?" Paul McCartney said after "Jet," the fourth song the opening night (of two) at Yankee Stadium. "I hear he's got more hits than me." That's debatable, as Macca put in a rather astounding a ... More >>

Officials Investigate Upper East Side Synagogue Fire; IRS May Want Money From the Guy Who Caught Derek Jeter's 3,000th Hit

​• Investigators are trying to determine the cause of the four-alarm fire that ripped through the Kehilath Jeshurun Synagogue, which had been under reconstruction, at East 85th Street last night. 170 firefighters responded, a few suffering minor injuries. No one was inside at the time of the ... More >>

[UPDATED] Paul McCartney Playing Yankee Stadium In July; Second Date Added

Tickets to Paul McCartney's July 15 concert at the new Yankee Stadium, which will serve as something of a b-side to the concerts he played at the Mets' new home in 2009, go on sale at 11 a.m. today, with post-service-charge prices ranging from $42.25 to $293.90; there are also a bunch of VIP packag ... More >>

Rock-Critic Pop Quiz: How Well Do You Know Anthrax's Back Catalog?

​Get ready to be caught in a proverbial mosh, New York, because The Big 4 of thrash--that's Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax--are coming to Yankee Stadium, and tickets go on sale this morning! To all you non-headbanging SOTC readers, this event is essentially as important to metalheads ... More >>

Donate Food to Get Tickets to See the New York Yankees

yankees.com​ 'Tis the season to be charitable, and The New York Yankees are once again sponsoring a holiday food drive on December 16 in which donors can receive two tickets to see the team play in 2011. Simply donate 30 pounds of non-perishable food items. Giving is great, but 30 pounds of ... More >>

Best Of NYC: We're the Greatest Sports City in the World

And proud of it

Mike Lupica Achieves Long-Sought Sportswriting Perfection

​You could single out almost any Mike Lupica column as typical, but the one in today's Daily News as the Yankees prepare to play Texas in Game Three of the ALCS is really classic. We don't want to belabor the obvious -- that's Mike Lupica's job. Some examples: "The Yankees come home no ... More >>

The Golden Age of Advice Rap Starts Now

"When you've run out of peaks," Jon Caramanica wrote in yesterday's Times, by way of reviewing Monday's ridiculous Jay-Z extravaganza, "all that's left are ridiculous, sublime stunts, new ways to climb old mountains." This is counterintuitive but true: a guy like Jay-Z has been a ... More >>

Live: Jay-Z And Eminem Bring Out Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Beyoncé, Nicki Minaj, Drake, Swizz Beatz, And Chris Martin (??!!) At Yankee Stadium

This actually happened Jay-Z/Eminem Yankee Stadium Monday, September 13 Better than: The shows in Detroit, I have to think. Sorry, Detroit. So let's start somewhere in the middle: Chris Martin! The dude from Coldplay! Seriously! Out he shuffles roughly halfway through Jay-Z's n ... More >>

Jay-Z And Eminem Will Probably Be Bringing A Shit-Ton Of Famous People With Them To Yankee Stadium

​Jay-Z and Eminem began their triumphant two-city, four-show run last night at Detroit's Comerica Park, and if that show's any indication, when they show up at Yankee Stadium September 13 and 14, they'll be bringing along every famous rapper they (or you) can think of.

Fall Guide: Interpol Return With Their First Record in Three Years

But don't look for that persona-grooming bassist

Yuri Foreman vs. Miguel Cotto: Good Old-Fashioned Ethnic Warfare at Yankee Stadium

(Bebeto Matthews/AP via the MLB)Cotto (L) and Foreman at the stadium​There are lots of Jews and Puerto Ricans in New York. And that, once you sweep away a fine layer of euphemism, is why boxing is returning to Yankee Stadium tomorrow night after a 34-year hiatus. Yuri Foreman is an Orthodox J ... More >>

Digital Yankee Pankee Outlawed: No iPads at Yankee Stadium

​As if it weren't enough for them to tell you when to stand, when to sit, and how much they're going to extort you for the privilege of watching a World Series team phone it in on important rivalry series', the Yankees management is now telling you which telecommunications devices you can (or ... More >>

Jay-Z's 'Empire' Strikes Back at Last

His first #1 song is his first Pazz & Jop chart-topper as well. Go Yankees.

While Yankees Play, the Bronx Waits for Its Promised Parks

​The Yankees might just bring the pennant back to the Bronx this year, but they won't be bringing ball fields to the borough for at least another two. The Bronx News Network is reporting that Heritage Field, the last of the replacement parks to be built on the site of the old Yankee Stadium, w ... More >>

Cheek, in Review: 7 Days of Runnin' Scared

​ Museum of Natural History. Twitpic by ashelamb. The week was hot as hell -- which, a quick scan of our stories reveals, is an apt comparison. In a tribute to democracy, people with guns started following around President Obama. Busybodies were all over Michelle Obama's butt. Old peo ... More >>

Yankees Pay $11.5M for Right to Sell Old Yankee Stadium Crap. Whose Win?

Are the Yankees screwing us on memorabilia? The Times points out that the city has what looks like an extremely sweet deal on bits and pieces of the old Yankee Stadium: they give us $11.5 million, and they get to do what they like with the debris of the stadium built in the mid-70s (with taxpayer as ... More >>

Posts of the Week

Hello, and welcome to Friday afternoon, when we round up our favorite posts of the week for your convenience. We'll see you on Monday, until then keep calm and carry on. We checked out Mayahuel, Phil Ward's new tequila/mezcal bar and had a Slynx. Chantal went to Macau and came back with reports ... More >>

Mets, Yanks Fans Not Filling Up Their New Ballparks

Apparently not even the prospect of starring in baseball's new umpire replay videos is enough to induce New Yorkers to shell out $300 for tickets to the new Yankee Stadium. After River Avenue Blues ran photos of entire empty sections during Friday's matinee, things got even worse yesterday, when ... More >>

Yankee Stadium Opener Has Yogi, Sousa, Finger, Tommy Bahama

The new Yankee Stadium will hold its first MLB regular season game today, with the Bombers facing Cleveland. The park opened at 10 a.m. (reporters are already filing about the "Taj Mahal of baseball parks") and opening ceremonies will commence around noon with the West Point Marching Band performing ... More >>

Yanks Tear Up Outfield -- and Not Just By Releasing Bobby Abreu

photo (cc) Shelley Panzarella The long wait in the Bronx may be close to an ending: A WCBS radio news helicopter flew over Yankee Stadium (the real one) yesterday and snapped photos of the outfield turf starting to be peeled off and removed. Will an actual wrecking ball be soon to follow? If so, ... More >>

City to Open "Business of Sports" School

If your kid neglects his studies, but enjoys watching sports on TV, good news: The Business of Sports School, or BOSS, opens next fall with a class of 91 freshmen, reports Newsday. Local papers stress the involvement of ESPN, but an ESPN spokesman downplays this, saying the sports infotainment compa ... More >>

In This Week's Voice

We said last week's Net Hentoff column would be his last at the Voice. Turns out we were wrong. The "excessed" journalistic legend delivers his own valedictory in this week's edition. Will our public servants suffer any consequences for their near-criminal handling of the Yankee Stadium boondoggl ... More >>

Ballfields Near New Yankee Stadium Won't Be Ready Soon

Fans Sour on Yanks' Suite Deal

Does the Yankees' Park Deal Cheat the Bronx?

Daily Flog: In NYC, the end of the houses that Ruth and ruthlessness built

Even the Team's Detractors Will Miss Yankee Stadium

But not seeing the Bombers get beat.

Former Mets/Yankees Reflect on the Stadiums Facing Demolition

The Pope's Final Day in NYC

Who's Cursed Now? The New Chapter in the Yankees/Red Sox Rivalry

Always a Bridesmaid: Mets Opening Day

What We Love About Tabloids Today

As New Yankee and Met Stadiums Go Up, So Do Costs and Disruption

Taking Credit for the Mets 7 Express Home from Shea

Are You In Love?

Rock stars, dating experts, and cartoon characters talk about Valentine's Day

What If You Threw a Contingency Plan but. . .

Hitting Japanese

There’s Only One Word to Describe This Phenomenon: Ichiro

Location, location, location

Big Doings at the Big Ballyard

The World Series Has Yankee Stadium Rocking — Even on an Off Day

Dueling Stadia

Bronx Tale