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 Artist’s rendering of Gate 2 entrance to Heritage Park, which would preserve part of old Yankee Stadium and put it to use for the new park

 Despite the opposition of baseball romantics and some Bronx residents, the city plans to dismantle the classic Gate 2 from the old Yankee Stadium.

“I think saving it is a good idea,” Sandra Mullen, 33, of the Bronx, said of the majestic entrance opposite the new Yankee Stadium.

“I like the old stadium from when I was a child. The new one is beautiful, but the old one was a classic.”

Boosters of the effort to save Gate 2 want it incorporated as the front door to the new Heritage Park, a 10-acre park slated to fill the footprint of the House That Ruth Built.

They’ve established a pro-Gate 2 Web site, featuring a 2-1/2-minute video presentation with their vision of the structure as a gateway to the new park.

Critics of the plan say Gate 2 is undeserving of rescue. Stabilizing and restoring the gate would cost $10 million, they say.

The “historic” gate was significantly changed when the Stadium was renovated in the mid-1970s, they note.

The Parks Department said there are plans to use other aspects of the old stadium - at least those pieces not peddled as pricey collectibles. Read more..

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This is a bit of a strange one, this one. LA hard punkers The Bronx take things a little more exotic and delve into their roots with ‘El Bronx’, a collection of eleven mariachi influenced tracks that seem about a continent away from the grimy rock sound that many ears have grown to love. But they say change is good, and this is a sideband (or whatever you can call it) worthy of widespread attention. Under the name of Mariachi El Bronx, the guys rip it up Mexican style, with trademark acoustic guitar and trumpets gleefully protruding out of the mix.

‘Cell Mates’ opens the record, which kicks in with some sprightly trumpet action but develops into a track of supreme melody and genuine quality even if the mariachi instrumentation does serve up a bit of novelty value. And what differentiates this album from becoming just another CD to stick on at your tequila themed party is the songwriting panache which pervades on all of these eleven songs. Check out ‘Quinceniera’ for a swaying blast of percussive ingenuity and an emphatically infectious chorus, or ‘Sleepwalking’, one of the jewels in this sombrero crown, which exhibits some sweeping chord progressions and masterful melody making. Read more..

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