Images from the Gate 2 demolition (source: Geoffrey Croft/NYC Park Advocates)
After ongoing efforts by historians and preservationists to save the famed “Gate 2” at the former Yankee Stadium, the structure was demolished, according to NYC Park Advocates, a non-profit park advocacy group. Although the city design commission had vetoed saving the gate when it filed its official plans for the demolition, Yankee enthusiasts had lobbied almost up until the day of demolition. The former Yankee Stadium is being transformed into playing fields for the community, a concession made in exchange for taking 25 acres of parkland to build the new stadium. NYC Park Advocates and other community groups had opposed saving the gate, according to a statement from the advocacy organization. TRD