Yankee Stadium
The Bronx's most famous address, twenty minutes from Midtown on three subway lines, and far cheaper to get into than most visitors assume if you buy the right seat.
- What it costs
- Bleacher and upper-deck seats for midweek games against lesser opponents are often the cheapest live sport in the city. Marquee weekend games cost many times that.
- Best in
- Spring, Summer, Fall
- Where
- 1 East 161st Street, Bronx, NY 10451
- Official site
- mlb.com
Buying sensibly
The single biggest saving is which game you pick, not where you sit. A midweek evening game against a small-market opponent in April costs a fraction of a weekend game against Boston.
Bleacher seats are the cheap end and are also the most fun part of the ballpark if you want atmosphere over sightlines. The upper deck behind home plate gives you the better view of the game itself for similar money.
Buy from the team's own site or the official resale route. Anything else risks a ticket that doesn't scan at the gate.
If there's no game on
Stadium tours run most non-game days and get you into the clubhouse, the dugout, Monument Park and the press level. Book ahead; they sell out in summer.
Monument Park, the plaque garden behind center field, is also open to ticket-holders before games — but it closes about 45 minutes before first pitch, so you have to arrive properly early. Most people who mean to see it don't.
Not just baseball
New York City FC play MLS matches here, and the ballpark also hosts college football and the occasional concert. Football in a baseball stadium is a strange and specific experience, and tickets are usually cheaper than the Yankees.
Eat before or after, not inside
Stadium food is stadium priced. 161st Street outside the ballpark has a row of long-standing bars and food places that are a fraction of the cost.
The Grand Concourse and its Art Deco architecture start a few blocks east, and the Bronx Museum — free to enter — is a fifteen-minute walk. It makes a good pre-game hour.
Getting there
Three subway lines land at the door: the 4 to 161st Street–Yankee Stadium, and the B and D to the same station. Around 20 minutes from Midtown, which makes this one of the easiest stadium trips in American sport.
Metro-North runs to Yankees–East 153rd Street station directly behind the ballpark on game days from Grand Central and from Connecticut and Westchester.
After a game the platforms are heaving. Wait ten minutes rather than fighting onto the first train.
Getting around once you're there
The ballpark is fully accessible with lifts to every level and dedicated seating in all price tiers. 161st Street station is accessible on the 4 line side. Book accessible seating through the team rather than a resale site.