The New York herald., 1921-02-06
YANKEE STADIUM
ON NORTH BANK
OF HARLEM RIVER
Site Officially Announced
as 18th to 161st Street,
River Avenue.
TO SEAT $4,000 FANS
Ground Only 20 Minutes From
Brooklyn Bridge; Easily
Accessible.

Selected because of the excellent
transportation facilities afforded, an
area of approximately ten acres of
ground just north of Macombs Dam
Bridge and between the Sixth avenue
elevated and the Lexington avenue
East Side subway is to be the site of
the new stadium of the New York
American League Baseball Club. Such
was the announcement yesterday of
the Yankee club, which has had the
fans guessing for weeks as to where
the grounds were to be located.
The site is on the Bronx side of the
Harlem River and almost directly op-
posite the Polo Grounds, the home of
the New York Giants. which has been
shared by the Yankees for number
of years. The plot is about 700 feet
in it's greatest dimension east to west,
and almost as long north to south. 1t
is bounded by 157th street, Doughty
avenue, 161st street and River avenue.
1t can be reached in about twenty
minutes from Brooklyn Bridge by the
Jerome avenue subway express trains.
The 161st street crosstown car con-
meets with all the surface, elevated
and subway roads in The Bronx. The
Sixth and Ninth avenue elevated trains
will land baseball fans at the Jerome
avenue station, which is only one
block from the main entrance.
BY automobile the grounds can be
reached via Broadway. both street via
duct and Macombs Dam bridge, also by
way of Seventh avenue in the same
direction. on the east side the stadium
may be reached by way of Fifth and
Madison avenues. Harlem River bridge
and the Grand Concourse.
street to BE Closed.
estate of William Waldorf Astor
through Messrs. Baldwin and Peabody
of the Mutual Life Insurance Company,
who are trustees of the estate. The
closing of one street will be necessary
but as all the contiguous property is
owned by the Astor estate, which will
interpose no objections, and since the
construction of the. stadium will be
great boom for the neighborhood. 1t is
not expected that permission to close
tho street in question will be very diff
cult to obtain. ..........,.
Work will begin on the new park as
soon as the frost leaves the ground and
1t Is said that the Yankees may open
the season of 1929 there if the contrac-
tors can obtain the necessary materials.
Otherwise the stadium will not be oc-
cupied until April !. 1923. the Yankees
meanwhile remaining on the Polo
Grounds as result of the extension of
the present lease until November 1922.
The Giants two years ago notified the
Yankees that they could not remain per-
manently in the Brush Stadium, all
though the New York Americans prob
ably would have been willing to take
thirty years lease Mt 100000 year.
The Giants want to use their home
grounds exclusively, for the reason that
their quota of Sunday baseball games
will be greater after the Yankees have
crossed the Harlem River The Yankees.
strictly speaking, will move to The
Bronx, but the location of their new
stadium is ideal and baseball fans soon
will be accustomed to 1t.
Othcr Sites Considered.
The owners of the Yankees had Sow
erai other sites under consideration
Amsterdam avenue. between i36th and
l3sth streets; the land at Broadway and
225th street, owned by Frank Farrell
and a location within a stones throw
of Broadway and Astor place. Two
years ago a plan TO move the Yankees
home to Long Island city, near the
Greensboro Bridge Plaza. was aJban-
doned
The playing field itself will be practi-
cally the same size as at the Polo
Grounds. IL is proposed to erect at
first $4,000 seats. only 5000 of which
will be bleachers. When the cost of
building material becomes normal the
capacity will be increased to $4,000
The ramfications of the subway sys-
tenn make the grounds easy of access
from all parts of the city, as is shown
by the following running time of the
official schedule:
East Side--The extreme ends, Bowling
Green and Moscholu Parkway. go and
minutes respectively Wall street, ~ !;
Grand Central, 16 F; 125th street. ., and
Fordham Road, 5 minutes, Atlantic
Avenue. Brooklyn. is only SO minutes.
On the Brooklyn Rapid Transit. UP lower
Broadway and Seventh avenue, changing
TO the Lexington avenue subway at
Fifty-ninth street, the running time Is
also rapid. The Second and Third ave-
nue. elevated lines may also be used by
changing at 139th street and Third ave-
nue.. and also Mott avenue, or by walking
one or two bloclVat 125th street
Two Minutes From Polo Grounds.
West Side--The grounds arc two min
utes running time beyond the Polo
Grounds by these lines: The running
time on the Brpadway-Seventh avenue
West Side subway is from Wall and
William streets. 33 minutes; from tho
north end of the line. that Is. 242d
street. IL minutes Pennsylvania Station,
20; Times Square, 20; Seyenty-second
street, II Manhattan street, 81 minutes.
From north of Nnety-sixth street
changes must be made at Nincty-sixth
street and also at Mott avenue.
The populous district of North Broad
way. Washington Heights, Is also served
by one surface line running from Am
sterdam avenue on i55th street, making
N. trip in nine minutes, and by another
Srveh Broadway, Amsterdam avenue, st.
Nicholas avenue and Fort George. run
ming across Washington Bridge at 1S1st
street, the trip requiring twelve. nine
and twenty minutes respectively.
On che Westchester branch OF tho
subway the running time is five min
0tes from 149th street and Third ave-
nue, and from 1S0th street is fourteen
minutes. The white Plains division at
24ist street. 80 minutes with change az