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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