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The eponymous High Bridge, part of the former Croton Aqueduct and now a pedestrian bridge. terminates in a park in the northwest corner of the neighborhood. [27] The High Bridge connects it to Highbridge Park in Manhattan. Merriam Playground [5] Macombs Dam Park to the south is built in the footprint of the original Yankee Stadium. [28]
The hotel was within walking distance of Yankee Stadium, which was home to baseball’s New York Yankees and (until 1973) football’s New York Giants. Many star players from the home teams – including Babe Ruth , Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris of the Yankees and Frank Gifford of the Giants – stayed at the Concourse Plaza, and visiting ...
East 149th Street / 145th Street Bridge – Yankee Stadium: Northbound exit only: Highbridge: 2.44: 3.93: 5: East 161st Street / Macombs Dam Bridge – Yankee Stadium: 2.30: 3.70: 6: East 153rd Street / River Avenue – Yankee Stadium: Southbound exit and entrance: Morris Heights: 3.40: 5.47: 7: I-95 / US 1 (Cross Bronx Expressway) – New ...
The Market Route East subalternative would have started at the southern end of Highbridge Yard using the existing single track servicing the Bronx Terminal Market and would have passed along the east edge of the overflow parking area at Yankee Stadium before running parallel to the Hudson Division, crossing Exterior Street to the shore at the ...
The 161st Street–Yankee Stadium station is a New York City Subway station complex shared by the elevated IRT Jerome Avenue Line and the underground IND Concourse Line. It is located at the intersection of 161st Street and River Avenue in the Highbridge and Concourse neighborhoods of the Bronx .
In 1923, Yankee Stadium opened near the Grand Concourse at 161st Street, down the hill from the Concourse Plaza Hotel. South of Fordham Road, the palatial Loew's Paradise theater, one of the Loew's Wonder Theatres and at one time the largest movie theater in New York City, was constructed in 1929. [10]
Concourse is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of the Bronx which includes the Bronx County Courthouse, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Yankee Stadium. Its boundaries, starting from the north and moving clockwise, are East 169th Street to the north, Webster Avenue to the east, East 149th Street to the ...
The original Yankee Stadium closed in 2008 to make way for a new Yankee Stadium in which the team started play in 2009. It is north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park. [158] The current Yankee Stadium is also the home of New York City FC of Major League Soccer, who began play in 2015. [159]