As community opposition to the new Yankee Stadium swells, boro prez Adolfo Carrion signed off on the proposed new digs, but with some "non-binding" stipulations ? "a community ballfield complete with a Yankees Hall of Fame, hotel and convention center, and a High School for Sports Industry Careers across the street from the new Yankee Stadium complex." If we can take sabermetrics, we're sold. Save Our Parks remains unswayed, noting of Carrion: "What a fraud." [Rendering via Project Ballpark]
· Bronx beep playing hardball on new Yankee Stadium plan [NYDN]
· 1/3/6, The Daily News [Save Our Parks]
· Yankees Trying to Be Neighborly in the Bronx [Curbed]
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