New-York tribune., 1921-02-06
Hinge Stadium
To Be Erected
On T.. 101st St.
Site, Bought for S500,0O
Half Mile From Home of
Giants; To Seat 5000
BY w. !. Macbeth


1918.
Final arrangements were made yes.
terdsy by Colonies Jacob Rupert anc
Til Huston for the erection OF a new
nlsnt and homo at Macomb's Dam
Bridge. This site, which is Just across
The Harlem River from the Polo
Grounds, embraces ten acres or more.
and, from every consideration of trans.
portstion, is the very most accessible
spot that could DC selected in the
metropolis.
Colonel T. l., Huston. one Of the very
foremost civil engineers of the United
States, has substantiated dxeam Of
architecture that will be the very last
word in baseball construction. This
dream come true, which is printed sep
arately. calls for q stadium which will
seat upward of $4,000 patrons.
Relations between the Yankees and
the Giants are most cougenial, and the
Yankees have been assured OF home
st the Polo Grounds as long as they
desire 10 remain. The two colonels
mold 4 lease on Brush Stadium to the
these promoters wish to have park of
their own, and the park or stadium, a1
illustrated, will be constructed just as
soon as labor conditions are normal
ICED Building will begin when bust
ness conditions arc stabilized, and not
before.
Location of New Stadium
The new stadium of the Yankees will
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between the Sixth Avenue elevated
line and the Lexington Avenue EAST
Side) subway. The site is included
between 157th and 161st streets and
Doughty and River avenues. The plot,
which contains about ten acres, is ap-
proximately square. 700 feet TO the
side This real estate was purchased
from William Waldorf Astor, through
Messrs. Baldwin and Peabody, the lat
ter president of the Mutual Life, who
are trustees for the estate.
For many months the Yankee owners
seriously considered building on the
Hebrew Orphan Asylum grounds, be-
tween i36th and 138th streets, and Am
sterdam Avenue aud Hamilton Place.
This particular plot was much more
roon1y than the Polo Grounds. but the
fact that it was limited to the width
ton of such a stadium as planned by
the two battling colonels. Necessarily
8 plant OF such pretensoins Will have
70 be much deeper than Brush Stadium,
and a width of only two streets was
found impracticable.
The colonels are solicitous for the
home Iun hitting prochvities of Babe
Ruth. but they mean to keep within
tho law as prescribed in home rue
9ats.
One Street To Be Closed
The closing OF one street IS required
on the new site, but as all the con-
iguous property is owned by the Astor
estate which will interpose no objec-
tionS,, it is believed that, because of the
great improvement to the neighborhood
which the location of the new grounds
will bring, the civic pride of the Off
Gals viii make the process Of closing
not difficult one.
The playing field itself Will be more
or less the same size as the Polo
Grounds. 1t is proposed TO erect at
first stadium TO accommodate $4,000
people, only 5000 of whom will be
bleacherites. When the cost of build
ing material becomes normal the capac-
ity will be increased to $1,000.
There is a station right at the
grounds on the Lexington Avenue sub
way, which is elevated here, at 161st
Street and River Avenue. AlsJ there
IS another station at the Sixth Avenue
elevated. A surface line between from
he Bronx along Amsterdam Avenue,
ut l55th Street, passes the main en-
trance Another surface line connects
Amsterdam Avenue and also Broadway,
crossing the Washington Bridge.
The location was ordained by its eX-
eelient transportation facilities to be-
come the site of baseball grounds suit
able for the demands of the greatest
city in America. Other sites which
We're under consideration We're not
large enough to give the large capacity
required
Easy to Reach Grounds
Every rapid transit line in the city
leads to the grounds. It's main direct
arteries Of communication are the
Sixth Avenue elevated, which also
serves the Polo Grounds, and the Lex
rston Avenue east Side) subway,
which connects with the wonderful
ramifcatons of the subway system
making the grounds easy of access
rom sil parts of the city, as is shown
BY the following running line of the
Official schedule.
East Side--The extreme ends, Bowl
ing Green and Mosholu Parkway, %
and II minutes, respectively; Wall
street. 27; Grand Central, 16; 125th
street, 5, and Fordham Road, 8 min
utes. Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, is
only 36 minutes. On the Brooklyn
rapid Transit, up lower Broadway and
seventh Avenue, changing to the Lex
inngton Avenue subway at Fifty-ninth
nStfreet the running time is also rapid
Inc Second and Third Avenue elevated
mes may also be used by changing at
i'S0th Street and Third Avenue ant
also at Mott Avenue, or by walking one
or two blocks at 125th Street
West Side-On ths Sixth and Ninth
avenue elevated lines the new grounds
are two minutes running time beyond
me Polo Grounds. The running time
on on the Broadway Seventh Avenue
west Side) subway is from Wall anc
William Streets, SO minutes; from the
Forth end of the line, that is, 242c
street, Al minutes; Pennsylvania sta
uon, %; Times Square, 20; Seventy
second Street, II; Manhattan Street, 81
minutes. From north of Ninety-sixtf
otreet changes must be made at Ninety
S'Sth Street and also at Mott Avenue
me populous district of Nortl
broadway, Washington Heights, is alst
s.erVed by surface line running from
aAtsterdam Avenue on 155th Street
mekihg the trip in 8 minutes, and b,
SSnother from Broadway, from Amster
Hem Avenue, from st. Nicholas Avenu
%nd fort George, running across Wash
ngtor Bridge at 18ist Street, the tril
isqQirlng u, 9 and 20 minutes, re
Speetively.
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