Opened in April 2009 across the street from the original 1923 ballpark, the stadium seats 46,537 and hosted the Yankees' World Series championship that same first season.
The stadium sits directly at the 161st Street–Yankee Stadium subway stop served by the 4 and D trains, with Metro-North's Yankees–E 153rd Street station a few blocks away.
This is the second building to carry the name, and it stands one block north of the first, on ground that had been Macombs Dam Park. Populous wrapped it in roughly 11,000 pieces of Indiana limestone and gave the upper deck back the frieze the old park had lost, rebuilt along the rim of the bowl. The 1923 stadium's copper original was stripped out in the mid-1970s renovation and survived afterward only as a replica above the bleacher wall in center field, so the 2009 building is partly a restoration of a structure that no longer exists.
The field is a copy; the seating bowl is not. The dimensions repeat the old park's final layout — 318 feet down the left-field line, 408 to center, 314 to right — so the short right-field porch that shaped a century of left-handed Yankee hitting is still in place. Behind home plate, though, a ring of premium seating and its own concourse push the second and third decks back and up, so the upper rows sit farther from the diamond than they did across the street, and the front rows behind the plate read as a gap on television when they go unfilled. The Great Hall, a covered concourse running most of the west side, is the building's one genuine room rather than a ramp.
Monument Park moved with the team. The granite monuments and bronze plaques now sit behind the center-field wall beneath the batter's eye, reachable before a game; in the old stadium the earliest stood in fair territory in deep center, in play, until the 1970s rebuild fenced them off.
The parkland the stadium took was rebuilt where the old one stood. Heritage Field laid three public ballfields inside the 1923 footprint, one aligned with the original diamond, the vanished stadium traced in paving and inlay. Tenancy has accumulated since: the Pinstripe Bowl since 2010, New York City FC league matches since 2015 on a pitch squeezed into the baseball geometry, outdoor NHL hockey in 2014, and intermittent boxing and international football.
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Yankee Stadium is a baseball stadium located in the Bronx, New York City. It is the home field of Major League Baseball’s New York Yankees.
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