The Save Gate 2 group has been fighting to get Yankee Stadium's Gate 2 preserves as part of the new Heritage Park. A few weeks ago it seemed like their chances of getting that to happen were slim, but as
Pete Caldera reports, they have some reasons to be optimistic.
At a public hearing last month, the city’s public design commission rejected the parks department’s plan for Heritage Park. "That was pretty good news for us," said Mark Costello, 56, another key member of the Save the Yankee Gate 2 Committee.
Costello, who pitched his committee’s plan at the hearing, said the parks department was chastised for its lack of imagination and creativity. Still, the department stressed it had no plans to incorporate any preservation of Gate 2.
"It’s kind of strike two on them," Costello said of the parks department, which had its previous Heritage Park plan rejected last spring. The next, earliest opportunity to update the plan is at the Public Design Commission’s mid-December hearing.
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"They almost have to come back with something representative of the old Stadium," Trush said.
It's still doubtful that they're gonna get this thing done, but at least they're fighting the good fight. I'm not a big fan of the current Heritage Park plans so I hope it's a fight they win. I've always thought this idea was great, and still don't understand why the Yankees won't get behind something like this.
