Plus Berlin was able to wonderfully rehab the 1936 Olympic Stadium for the 21st Century. Now a significant place in world history has been maintained and made functional again. There are simply NO excuses for any of this in the Bronx.

As for Newark, yes the sky-ways, 20 years later seem to have been a horrible idea but they may have been the only way to maintain the viability of the city at that time. However, the new Prudential Center was purposely built with insufficient parking, forcing people to use NJ TRANSIT and walk on the streets the several blocks to the arena.

Take that! Don't mess with this Jersey boy!

The encouragement of traffic by providing all those extra parking spaces is indefensible.

Whether you're a fan or a neighbor, this entire thing is a complete disaster.

Except for the Metro-North Station. That's actually awesome. It's the only good thing about this.

Yankee Stadium now is bigger than Macombs Dam Park on the map. I'm not saying anything, just throwing that out there...

"Yankee Stadium, E. 161st St. SW cor. River Ave. (W of the Concourse.) 1923. Osborn Engineering Co. Rebuilt, 1976, Praeger-Kavanagh-Waterbury.

"Built by brewery magnate Colonel Jacob Ruppert for the team he owned and for its most valuable player, Babe Ruth (the short right field helped him to set his home run record). In the early 1970s someone got the idea that the New York Yankees were the key to the neighborood's, the Bronx's, and New York city's economic salvation, and so the whole stadium -- as well as acres of adjacent fallow land -- were rebuilt at a cost of some $100 million, a sum upon which the city will probably never stop paying interest. There are fewer columns to obstruct vision and many, many more parking spaces, but the adjacent community seems, if anything, to have increased its rate of decay."

My comment reflects my experience in Newark, not my knowledge of the Yankee Stadium development. And in fairness, I didn't profess to have any in my comment, and I didn't "bash away" at the Yankee Stadium project.

When I saw a structure on the map located far from the stadium site and separated from it by parking lots, called Gateway, I was concerned that it was some kind of retail or other development intended to be accessed primarily by motorists. There would be an economic logic to that, since all the stadium parking will be sitting there in the off-season. My concern with such a development is that it would exist apart from the community in which it was situated, and primarily serve motorists from elsewhere--the way the Newark Gateway Center does. For example, even though there are a huge number of workers at Newark Gateway, virtually no local restaurants have opened to serve them lunch because everybody eats bad fast food at the national chains that have locations inside the Gateway complex.

Remember, the Bronx political establishment demanded that New York City pay any price to keep the Yankees in the Bronx. And that is what has happened.

Everyone would have been better off if the Yankees and Mets had shared a stadium with a retractable roof on the West Side or in Long Island City next to the proposed Sunnyside Station. Everyone from everywhere could have gotten there by transit.

There are few paying Yankee fans in the Bronx, many in New Jersey. A late night ride home to New Jersey from the current site is miserably long and uncertain. (The drive isn't much better). The Bronx is one of the poorest places in the United States.

This is the price one pays for symbolism.

Be sure to click on Garage A, formerly known as what was left of Macombs Dam Park, for the $237 million subsidy and free police parking feature.

No, I'm sorry, I can't; it's too depressing. What a time of shame for the Bronx.