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Yankee Stadium: The Ballpark and the Streets Around It

Bronx, New York

Part of Major League Ballparks

Yankee Stadium stands at 1 East 161st Street in the Bronx. It opened in 2009, cost about $2.3 billion including $1.2 billion in public subsidies, and was designed by Populous with Turner Construction as general contractor. It replaced the 1923 stadium of the same name, whose site is now a park.

This guide takes the ballpark first, then the two restaurants and the museum inside it, then the Grand Concourse buildings and the River Avenue bars around it. Research for it was carried out with web search unavailable, from named sources fetched directly: English Wikipedia, the club's and the businesses' own sites, and New York City's public restaurant dataset, which stood in for discovery on River Avenue. Where a claim rests on a business's own account of itself, this guide says so. Where the research could not establish something — a founding year, current hours, whether a tenant list still holds — this guide leaves it out and names the gap.

  1. 1 East 161st Street: the Yankees' home ballpark, opened 2009, designed by Populous with Turner Construction as general contractor, at a cost of about $2.3 billion including $1.2 billion in public subsidies. 25 fixed concession stands and 112 movable ones.

  2. One East 161st Street, Gate 6: dry-aged USDA Prime steaks and seafood with roughly 100 wine options, billed on its own site as the steak and seafood restaurant of the Yankees. A sister location operates at Seminole Casino in Coconut Creek, Florida.

  3. Gate 6, at 161st Street and River Avenue: opened March 30, 2009, seating 165 with a full bar and 15 large flat-screen televisions, open year-round to ticketholders and non-ticketholders alike.

  4. Main level at Gate 6: opened 2009, sponsored and presented by Bank of America. Larsen and Berra statues for the 1956 perfect game, a "Ball Wall" of autographed baseballs, Thurman Munson's locker, Derek Jeter's 3,000th-hit uniform, three authenticated Babe Ruth uniforms. Current hours and non-game-day access were not established.

  5. East 161st Street and River Avenue: a 10-acre park on the site of the 1923 stadium, opened April 2012, with a blue outline in the grass marking the old diamond and the position of its home plate.

  6. 836 River Avenue: carried under American cuisine on the city's public restaurant dataset in a row dated April 13, 2026. No site for the bar was found and nothing further was reachable.

  7. 856 River Avenue: carried under American cuisine on the city's public restaurant dataset in a row dated October 29, 2025. No site for the bar was found and nothing further was reachable.

  8. 812 River Avenue: carried under the coffee and tea category on the city's public restaurant dataset in a row dated June 19, 2026. No site for the cafe was found and nothing further was reachable.

  9. 851 Grand Concourse: the Mario Merola Building, designed 1931 by Joseph H. Freelander and Max Hausle and built 1931-1934, nine stories of limestone on a rusticated granite base, Art Deco with Classical Revival and Neo-Classical elements. A New York City Landmark since 1976 and on the National Register since 1983.

  10. Bounded by Grand Concourse, Walton Avenue, East 164th Street and East 161st Street: a city park in the Concourse section holding the Lorelei Fountain, Ernst Herter's 1896 white marble Heinrich Heine Memorial, unveiled here July 8, 1899 and restored in 1999.

  11. 1040 Grand Concourse, at the northeast corner of 165th Street: established May 11, 1971, in a former synagogue since May 1983, expanded 1988 and 2006. Free admission every day since March 29, 2012; stated hours Wednesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

  12. 610 Exterior Street: a shopping center by The Related Companies, built from August 14, 2006 at a cost of about $500 million and reopened September 12, 2009. The anchor list is the one recorded at that reopening, not a current roster.

Getting there

The 161st Street–Yankee Stadium subway station sits at the intersection of 161st Street and River Avenue. It is served by the 4 train at all times, the B train on weekdays during rush hours and middays only, and the D train at all times except rush hours in the peak direction.

The Yankees–East 153rd Street station, on Exterior Street, carries daily Hudson Line local service on Metro-North. Selected Harlem Line and New Haven Line trains, including dedicated "Yankee Clipper" trains, also stop there on game days.

Two bus routes reach the ballpark. The Bx6 runs between Riverside Drive and 158th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan, and the Hunts Point Cooperative Market in the Bronx, passing 161st Street and River Avenue at the stadium. The Bx13 runs between the George Washington Bridge Bus Station in Washington Heights and the Bronx Terminal Market at East 149th Street and River Avenue; some AM rush-hour trips are extended to Yankee Stadium and some PM rush-hour trips originate there instead of at the Market.

On parking, the record is a construction-era one. When the stadium was being built, parking was expected to cost $25 per game, and the New York City Industrial Development Agency approved $225 million in tax-exempt bonds for three new parking garages totaling 3,600 spaces plus renovation of 5,569 existing spaces. That $25 is an expectation recorded against the project, not a rate anyone has published for 2026, and this guide does not present it as one. No current rate was reachable.

Around the ballpark

Gate 6 holds three of this guide's entries without leaving the building: NYY Steak, the Hard Rock Cafe at the corner of 161st Street and River Avenue, and the New York Yankees Museum on the main level. The Hard Rock is open year-round to ticketholders and non-ticketholders alike; the museum's current hours and its non-game-day access were not established by the research, and are not stated here.

River Avenue carries three more, in street-number order: The Clubhouse Cafe at 812, Stan's Sports Bar at 836 and Billy's Sport Bar Restaurant & Lounge at 856. Each rests on a single source — a row in New York City's public restaurant dataset, giving the name, the address and the cuisine category and nothing else. Web search was exhausted before this batch began and no site was found for any of the three, so no founding year, menu or hours appears here.

Heritage Field is at East 161st Street and River Avenue, on the ground the 1923 stadium stood on. Its blue outline in the grass traces the old diamond, home plate included.

The Grand Concourse holds the older architecture. The Bronx County Courthouse is at 851, the Bronx Museum of the Arts at 1040 on the northeast corner of 165th Street, and Joyce Kilmer Park is bounded by the Concourse, Walton Avenue, East 164th Street and East 161st Street. The Bronx Terminal Market is at 610 Exterior Street.

One thing to know about the record behind all of this. Four of these twelve places carry no statement here about whether they are trading now: the Yankees Museum, the Bronx Terminal Market, whose anchor list is the one recorded at its 2009 reopening rather than a current roster, and the three River Avenue businesses. None of that is evidence of closure, and none should be inferred. Telephone first.

The ballpark and the team

The franchise was established in 1903 as the New York Highlanders, under the owners Frank J. Farrell and William S. Devery, and was officially renamed the New York Yankees in 1913. It plays in the American League, in the AL East Division since divisional play began in 1969, and had won 27 World Series titles through 2009.

The current ballpark broke ground on August 16, 2006. It opened on April 2, 2009 as a workout day, held its first exhibition game on April 3, and began regular-season play on April 16, 2009. Populous designed it and Turner Construction was general contractor; the cost was about $2.3 billion, of which $1.2 billion was public subsidy.

It replaced the original Yankee Stadium, which operated from 1923 to

  1. Demolition of that building was completed on May 13, 2010, and its site became Heritage Field, a 10-acre park that opened in April 2012 with the outline of the original diamond worked into the turf.

The 1923 stadium was constructed near the Grand Concourse at 161st Street. The Concourse is a 5.2-mile Bronx boulevard, built between 1894 and 1909 and extended in 1927, designed by Louis Aloys Risse on the model of the Champs-Élysées; its southern section, roughly 153rd to 167th Streets, became a National Register historic district in 1987 and a New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission historic district in 2011.

One point of borough geography, because this guide's county field depends on it: the Bronx is coextensive with Bronx County, one of the 62 counties of New York State, and Bronx County was separated from New York County in 1914.

Frequently asked questions

Which trains and buses serve Yankee Stadium?
The 161st Street–Yankee Stadium subway station, at 161st Street and River Avenue, takes the 4 train at all times, the B on weekdays during rush hours and middays only, and the D at all times except rush hours in the peak direction. The Yankees–East 153rd Street station on Exterior Street has daily Metro-North Hudson Line local service, with selected Harlem and New Haven Line trains — including dedicated "Yankee Clipper" trains — stopping on game days. The Bx6 and the Bx13 buses both reach the ballpark.
What does parking cost?
No current published rate was reachable, and this guide gives none. The only figure in the record belongs to the stadium's construction: parking was then expected to cost $25 per game, and the New York City Industrial Development Agency approved $225 million in tax-exempt bonds for three new garages totaling 3,600 spaces plus renovation of 5,569 existing spaces. That expectation is not a 2026 price.
What happened to the old Yankee Stadium?
It operated from 1923 to 2008 and its demolition was completed on May 13, 2010. Heritage Field, a 10-acre park, was built on the site: groundbreaking was June 29, 2010 and it opened in April 2012, with a blue outline in the grass marking where the original diamond and home plate were.
Why do the River Avenue bars have such short entries?
Because one source is all there was. Web search was exhausted before this batch began, and New York City's public restaurant dataset did the work of discovery on that street. A dataset row gives a business name, an address and a cuisine category. It does not give a founding year, a menu or a set of hours, and none of the three — Billy's, Stan's or The Clubhouse Cafe — had a site the research could find. Rather than pad those records, this guide publishes what the row establishes and says so.
Is the Bronx Terminal Market's shop list current?
No, and it is not published as one. Target, The Home Depot, Burlington, Lidl, BJ's Wholesale Club, Food Bazaar and Best Buy are the anchors recorded when the centre reopened on September 12, 2009. The research could not reach a freshly dated tenant roster, so that list is presented as of the reopening and not as of today.
Why is this guide filed under Bronx rather than Bronx County?
Because that is this corpus's convention for New York City, and the convention is what makes the borough hubs work: every Brooklyn guide is filed under Brooklyn and every Manhattan guide under Manhattan. Filing this one under the legal name, Bronx County, would give it a destination hub of its own and separate it from the borough it belongs to. The Bronx is coextensive with Bronx County, which was separated from New York County in 1914.

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