Sunday, March 04, 2007

citifield construction update

TBF and I were out in Queens on Saturday to visit the Robert Moses exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art. (Yes, we dorkily made all those “This is Tom Glavine of the New York Mets. Discover Queens.” jokes.) While we were in the area, we made a small detour over to Shea to check out what was going on with construction at Citifield, and I brought my camera along. The construction crews were busily at work, even on a Saturday.

[Tip: be sure to click through to see the larger versions of these photos.]

This will be the view from left field towards the stands.

In this closeup from the same vantage point, you can see the beams for the seating levels, and how it’s starting to curve toward right field:

And here we are on the other side, from behind the stands. You can see the flat area that will become the concourse, and the seat levels sloping down:

Also over on this side, here’s the beginning of the entrance rotunda starting to be built:

Some perspective:

And before some wisenheimer writes in to say, “Why didn’t you just get up on the subway platform to take some photos,” trust me that I planned on that, but the bridge over to Shea is closed in the off-season.

It’ll be interesting to have these as a baseline, and track progress throughout the season into next year. I was also glad to get some photos of Shea with the 2006 signage, and some different perspectives (like the 1969 mural, which I never, ever see) which you don’t get running from the 7 train to the mezzanine at 6:55pm.

Oh: if you thought parking was bad last year, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. There’s pretty much nothing left.