Hunt for New York City F.C.’s Stadium Site Is Back Where It Began: the Bronx
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Charles V. Bagli
After five years of prowling
New York City and
Long Island, New York City Football Club, the Major League Soccer franchise owned by the Yankees and a royal billionaire from Abu Dhabi, may have finally found a site for its own stadium.
In the Bronx. Right near Yankee Stadium. Exactly where team owners said
they wanted to build in 2013. Back then, the plan unraveled when negotiations with the city fell apart.
If approved this time around, the stadium would sit amid a 20-acre, multibillion-dollar development stretching along East 153rd Street and River Avenue, between Yankee Stadium and the Bronx Terminal Market, that would include a park, a hotel and conference center focused on soccer and sports, shops, office space, a school and as many as 3,000 affordable apartments...
Alicia Glen, deputy mayor for housing and economic development and a soccer fan, said discussions with the team are ongoing. But cautioned that nothing is final. The city has also been talking to the team about another site — next to Citi Field at Willets Point, Queens — that has been a perennial candidate for redevelopment...'