From Yonkers Newswire Journalist Brian Harrod.

 

YONKERS HISTORY: In 1996, Before The New Yankee Stadium And A Decade Before The Slot Machines Came, Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, County Executive Andrew O’Rourke, And New York Governor George Pataki All Championed A Plan To Bring The Bronx Bombers To Yonkers Raceway.

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL? Back, In The 1973, the Yonkers Raceway grandstand was demolished. There was consideration on selling the site to the National Football League’s New York Jets which would have included a stadium; however, the plan was shelved over traffic concerns and not enough political support for it from Mayor Alfred DelBello.

DOWNTOWN YONKERS: Then in 2007 Mayor Phil Amicone proposed that The City of Yonkers develop a Minor League Ballpark on the Chicken Island Parking lot, a centrally located area in economically depressed downtown, but this too failed....

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