If the Yankees moved out of the Bronx, where would have been the best location?

[Suburbia]

The late owner George Steinbrenner did not like The Bronx as Yankee Stadium's location. He felt the Bronx was too crime ridden and poverty ridden and wanted to move to Manhattan, New Jersey or Connecticut.

Where would have been the best location?

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-07-19-1994200034-story.html

[Illiniwek]

I am by no means an expert of NYC metro area geography, but I feel like the only spot that would have been worthy of a new Yankee Stadium would have been a place like Hudson Yards, where they wanted to build the "West Side Stadium" for the Olympics and the Jets. If you would have put the Yankees in Jersey, or Long Island, or Connecticut, man that just would not have felt right.

[Lambsbread]

Alcatraz.

[Suburbia]

I am by no means an expert of NYC metro area geography, but I feel like the only spot that would have been worthy of a new Yankee Stadium would have been a place like Hudson Yards, where they wanted to build the "West Side Stadium" for the Olympics and the Jets. If you would have put the Yankees in Jersey, or Long Island, or Connecticut, man that just would not have felt right.

Steinbrenner and Levine were appealing to their suburban base who left the city because of white flight, etc. The Mets wanted to leave Queens too for Long Island.

[Illiniwek]

I am by no means an expert of NYC metro area geography, but I feel like the only spot that would have been worthy of a new Yankee Stadium would have been a place like Hudson Yards, where they wanted to build the "West Side Stadium" for the Olympics and the Jets. If you would have put the Yankees in Jersey, or Long Island, or Connecticut, man that just would not have felt right.

Steinbrenner and Levine were appealing to their suburban base who left the city because of white flight, etc. The Mets wanted to leave Queens too for Long Island.

Yeah I guess the 90s were a different time as far as urban appeal...

[Suburbia]

I am by no means an expert of NYC metro area geography, but I feel like the only spot that would have been worthy of a new Yankee Stadium would have been a place like Hudson Yards, where they wanted to build the "West Side Stadium" for the Olympics and the Jets. If you would have put the Yankees in Jersey, or Long Island, or Connecticut, man that just would not have felt right.

Steinbrenner and Levine were appealing to their suburban base who left the city because of white flight, etc. The Mets wanted to leave Queens too for Long Island.

Yeah I guess the 90s were a different time as far as urban appeal...

Yes, the 90s were the transition between old urban decay and gentrification....Steinbrenner and Levine like gentrification because let's face it, the South Bronx was not a pretty sight from 1965 to 1993ish......it still isn't......but it has gotten better.

In 1997, The Bronx was named an All American City because things were improving in the early 90s .......

https://clintonwhitehouse4.archives.gov/WH/New/html/19971210-14779.html