July 1, 2025 ⢠18 mins
Attending a New York Yankees game at Yankee Stadium is a phenomenal experience for locals and tourists alike.
With its deep history, cheap ticket prices (generally), and a fun atmosphere, it's an activity we highly recommend!
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Best Seats at Yankee Stadium
There is no bad seat at Yankee Stadium. We've sat in the nosebleeds, lower section, and outfield and had a great viewing experience each time!
We often have the best luck with â ticket prices on Vivid Seatsâ (plus you earn rewards for free tickets).
Getting Into Yankee Stadium Pro Tip
Often, when entering Yankee Stadium, the main entry points, located on the corner of 161st Street and River Avenue, are incredibly crowded.
If you walk to the left (or West) around the stadium and find Gate 2, you will usually find a much shorter line. It can feel far away and that you're missing an entrance, but the shorter line often equates to a faster entry.
Where to Eat/Drink Before a Yankees Game
- Billy's Sports Bar (massive, multi-level, almost club feel with outdoor area during nice weather)
- Stan's Sports Bar
- Flavas International Grill (Jamaican food)
- Check the scene/bars on River Ave right near the stadium
- Cheap fast food options nearby, including Taco Bell, McDonald's (if you're on a budget)
- Plenty of bodegas for a sandwich and a bodega beer
Best Food Options at Yankee Stadium
From their website: Guests are permitted to bring food into Yankee Stadium for individual consumption. Items such as apples and oranges must be sliced or sectioned. Empty, reusable, non-glass water bottles that do not exceed 24 oz in size, and clear factory-sealed plastic bottles of water 1 liter in size or smaller are also permitted.
This means you could get a bodega sandwich and bring it into the stadium!
Yankee Stadium has been voted as one of the best stadiums for great stadium food and the overall best baseball stadium by USA Today.
2025
Runner-up: Best Baseball Stadium Food
Runner-up: Best MLB Stadium
2024
Runner-up: Best MLB Stadium
Runner-up: Best Baseball Stadium Food
2023
Runner-up: Best Stadium Food
Some solid options for food inside Yankee Stadium:
- Lobelâs Steak Sandwich
- Judge burger
- Fuku chicken tenders
- Chicken and Fries Value Bucket (around $22 but it's a LOT of food, we split it between 3-4 people and everyone had enough) - Pay with a Mastercard and get free soda
- Halal guys
- Ice cream in the souvenir hat
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Brief History of Yankee Stadium
Founded in 1903 (originally as the Baltimore Orioles, then the New York Highlanders), they've won 27 World Series championships, more than any other MLB team. The Yankees are known for their pinstripe uniforms, their "NY" logo, and legendary players like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter.
The current Yankee Stadium opened in 2009, built directly across the street from the original "House that Ruth Built," which operated from 1923 to 2008. Located in the Bronx, the new stadium was designed to honor the legacy of the original while incorporating modern amenities. It has a capacity of about 47,400 and features the same dimensions as the old stadium, including the famous short right field porch that's just 314 feet down the line.
The new Yankee Stadium includes Monument Park, which relocated the plaques and monuments honoring Yankees legends from the original stadium. The Great Hall serves as the main entrance, featuring historical exhibits and artifacts.
Again, updated and modern but with a rich history.
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Episode Transcript
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(00:00):
Hey everyone, and welcome to today's episode of the Better
Together Here podcast. My name is Devin.
And my name is Ashley and. In today's episode, we are going
to cover a Yankees game experience.
We talked about the Mets a couple weeks ago and we're going
to talk about the Yankees. Arguably one of the more iconic
New York City things you can do going to a game at Yankee
Stadium. Even if you're not a sports fan,
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it's a great, great experience. And also a very fun thing to
take kids to do if you're traveling to the city with kids
We're. Going to talk about a brief
history of Yankee Stadium. We're going to tell you where to
eat and drink before and after and some great food options as
well as a couple insider tips. So let's get right into it.
Growing up, I loved baseball. I have experiences of going on
(00:42):
road trips with my dad to different baseball stadiums in
California. When we would travel, we would
go to baseball stadiums. And growing up, I hated the
Yankees. Like a lot of people.
The Yankees are hated by a lot of sports fans.
Why? Are they hated?
Because they're good. This is just, this is like the
least explainable. It's the unexplainable fandom of
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like people hate teams and people that are good.
People love to just hate LeBron James because he's LeBron James
and he's good. He's one of the greatest players
of all time, but people hate him.
Like people hate the Yankees. There's a little bit more like
history. I mean, we don't have time to
dive into this, but like, there's a little more history
with like people hating the Yankees because like, for a lot
(01:24):
of it had to do with them havinglike, spending a lot more money
than other teams. And there's this.
We'd have to go down some deep, deep rabbit holes, but there is
a hatred for the Yankees. Well, not in this household.
Not in this household, fans. Once we moved to New York, I
said to myself, I don't have a real baseball team.
Anyways, went to a Yankees game and frankly I was hooked.
We had an amazing experience at our first Yankees game.
(01:47):
We sat up in, I think it was called the Budweiser corner or
like the Budweiser party deck orsomething like that.
We didn't really know when we bought the tickets, they were
just cheap and we were definitely in the party zone and
there were just some Yankees fans having a great time,
leading some chance, getting people going, giving like a real
authentic Yankees experience andwe were hooked.
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Yankees Stadium and the New YorkYankees has such a deep history.
They were originally founded in 19 O3 as the Baltimore Orioles
and then the New York Highlanders.
Now the Yankees, right? They've won 27 World Series,
more than any other baseball team.
You know them for their famous pinstripe uniforms, their NY
logo, and legendary players likeBabe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey
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Mantle and Derek Jeter. The current stadium where they
are opened in 2009, and it was built directly across from the
old Yankee Stadium, which is often called the House that Ruth
built. That old stadium was there from
1923 to 2008. So tearing it down was like kind
of removing a legacy. And a big thing of what they
wanted to do with Yankee Stadiumwas preserve some of that
(02:51):
history. So they took some of like the
plaques and monuments that were from the original stadium and
brought them into the new one aswell.
It's a beautiful stadium. It seats 47,000 people.
And it actually features the same dimensions as the old
stadium, including a really famous short right field fence
that's just 314 feet down the line.
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So you get a lot of home runs from left-handed hitters into
the right field stands. Again, it's modern.
It's updated, but it still has like a rich history and you just
feel like you're experiencing New York City lore when you go
into Yankee Stadium. I feel like when we've been
there, we've been very lucky to get some beautiful sunsets from
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Yankee Stadium. I don't know what it is
specifically about Yankee Stadium.
Or maybe we're just like truly getting lucky that there
happened to be a great sunset that day, but beautiful sunsets
also. I like a Yankee Stadium.
They have a little flag for eachof the teams.
Is it in the whole MLB or is it just the?
Yeah, yeah, in all of the MLB, Ibelieve.
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It's just like cute to see like each team's flag all around the
stadium. I think it's cute.
I also love a Yankee Stadium. Depending on where you're
seating. In most seats, you can see when
the subway goes by. It's like kind of this gap in
the stadium and you see the subway go by and it just is this
like picturesque moment of like you're at Yankee Stadium
watching the New York Yankees, seeing the New York subway go
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by. It's amazing.
When it comes to where to sit atYankee Stadium, similar to what
we talked about for the for CitiField in our last episode,
there's not a bad seat in the house.
What we usually do is we just scour different ticket apps,
whether it's SeatGeek or Vivid Seats or Ticketmaster, find
whatever's cheapest and just getin.
(04:35):
And in some cases, I actually had an experience where I got
into Yankee Stadium for, I thinkit was 3, maybe $4.00 after
fees. So I went to a professional
baseball game for three or $4.00, which is just
unbelievable. It was like a was.
In last year like in 2024? Yeah, it was.
I think it was last year or the year before.
I biked up there from Manhattan,bought myself a hot dog from a
(04:58):
vendor outside for like, I thinkit was like $5 for two hot dogs.
Watched some kids play baseball at like a little baseball
stadium next to Yankee Stadium and then went into Yankee
Stadium. It was amazing for just a couple
bucks. Obviously if you want to pay the
premium and sit lower, you can, but there's not a bad seat in
the house. We talked about this in our last
(05:19):
episode, but sometimes you just pay for the cheap seats.
Keep an eye where there's openings and make your way down
into lower sections if that's something you're open to doing.
I've personally never gotten in trouble for doing that, but if
you're somebody that like reallylikes to follow the rules and
that type of thing would stress you out, obviously don't do it.
But we've had pretty good luck on getting Nosebleed tickets and
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then around inning like 5 or 6 just moving down to be closer
and it's not usually a problem. And even if you don't go sit in
lower sections, I recommend going and exploring all the
different levels and just walking around and even just
seeing what the views are like throughout the stadium.
Like personally, I just love that about sports arenas.
I like to do a full loop at least once and just kind of see
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the different views and all the different pieces of the stadium.
And that leads us to this episodes New York know how.
Quite unrelated, but this is from the New York City Basic
Tips and Etiquette book by Nathan W Pyle that we have
referenced many times. This is tip #88 and is a picture
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of a man in construction gear. He's got a construction hat on
and he's got a speech bubble saying, I see you're reading a
book. We're just breaking this 4th
wall to tell you be extra alert when walking through a
construction zone. Alertness will help you avoid
dying. And you know what?
Ain't that the truth? Ain't that?
The truth. Some of these construction
workers, they, they're efficient, they are getting the
(06:44):
job done, but what they're doingis dangerous.
And a lot of times it's right ontop of the sidewalk where a
bunch of people are walking. So there's been a couple times
where I've been walking and all of a sudden like a huge 2 by 4
gets like dropped right in frontof me to the guy that's supposed
to catch it. You, you have to be paying
attention. There's things that can fall.
(07:04):
The scaffolding can be rickety. I mean, this is like good advice
generally to just be alert as you're walking around New York
City. But specifically if you see
construction people in a construction zone, like head on
a swivel, maybe take your earbuds out and just be paying
attention and you will hopefullynot die.
And that's this episode's New York Know how Keep your head up
(07:25):
in construction zones. All right, back to the Yankees
game experience. All right, A lot of you want to
know where can you eat or drink before a Yankees game?
The nice thing about Yankees Stadium is that it's right off
of a couple different subway lines.
I believe the D train and the six train go straight to like
they have actual Yankees Stadiumstops.
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And you are also just kind of right in the heart of a part of
the Bronx. There are like you could walk,
you know, 1020 minutes in any direction and kind of not any
direction, but most directions and find some spots to eat.
But what most people do is righton what's called River Ave.
which is just right near the stadium and right where you pop
out from the subway. It's just there's some great
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bars and restaurants and it's kind of just a party scene.
No matter what day you go there will be people pre gaming having
a great time on the streets on River Ave. specifically.
One of our favorite places to goto before the Yankees game is
called Billy's Sports Bar. The first time that I came here
with Devin, he like tried to give me a heads up that like
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it's going to be a club vibe. And in like the front of the
bar, it feels like more of like your typical sports bar.
They have sports on like all thebeers on tap.
People are just kind of sitting and chatting.
But if you go like further towards the back, there's like a
DJ and like party lights and strobe lights and like super
loud music. So I think you can find whatever
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you're looking for at Billy's. And it it's almost like
warehouse style as well 'cause there's multiple levels and the
ceilings are super high in that kind of main area.
There's also a nice outdoor areaduring, you know, when the
weather is good, gets super, super crowded.
So just be prepared for that. A couple other spots right near
Billy's is Stan's Sports Bar. Around the corner there's
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Flava's International Grill, which is Jamaican food.
If you're really on a budget andyou just want to go something
cheaper, there's some good fast food options nearby like Taco
Bell or McDonald's if you want. Or there are plenty of bodegas
where you can grab a sandwich and a nice bodega beer and have
that before you head into the game.
Which a note on that, and we missed this in the Mets slash
(09:38):
Citi Field episode, but in Yankee Stadium, you can actually
bring in a sealed drink. Not alcohol, but you can bring
in a sealed bottle of water and you can bring in food explicitly
on their website, it says you can bring in food for personal
consumption. So you could get a sandwich at a
bodega, have it in a plastic bagand bring it in with you to
Yankee Stadium and save a lot ofmoney.
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And that leads us to this episodes You'll have to check it
out segment. The next stop is Kafana.
So we have talked about Kafana when we did another episode.
We want to hit on it a little bit more and bring it to your
attention because we absolutely loved our experience at Kafana.
Kafana is extremely authentic Serbian food and it's in the
East Village. We went here maybe by accident.
(10:23):
I don't remember exactly how we even found this place.
I think we were just searching food near.
I remember you and I were looking for a place for dinner
and you were just on Google Mapsand you found it and you were
like, I got it, This is where we're going.
And it was awesome. Did not disappoint at all.
We had some amazing braised lamb, we had a spinach pie, we
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had their baklava for dessert. They had pretty fairly priced
carafes of wine. So between like a glass and a
bottle? Like 2 1/2 ish glasses. 500
milliliters. So like almost a little, a
little more than half a bottle. Yeah, like 3 glasses.
Then they have great orange wine, which we love orange wine.
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I think the flavors are always just so delicious and refreshing
on like a nice warm summer day. When we went, we actually sat in
their little outdoor seating as well.
But what was great about Kafana and how you know that it is like
authentic and really good is that as we were there, there
were a lot of people coming and going eating there who were
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Serbian. They were speaking the language
and interacting with the staff who were from who were Serbian
as well. And like, to me, that is a
really quick way to know, like this place is authentic if the
people who are actually from where the cuisine cuisine is
that you're eating at the restaurant are coming there as
well. That's Kafana in the East
Village and that's this episodes.
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You'll have to check it out segment.
OK, back to Yankee Stadium and the Yankees games.
Damn clear of the closing doors,please.
OK, we mentioned you can bring food.
You can bring water in. It has to be either empty non
glass water bottles or like a clear factory sealed bottle of
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water that's one liter in size or smaller.
So when as you're walking into the stadium, you'll see people
selling bottles of water, you can get them for like a couple
bucks. Bring that in.
Just don't open it, you know, bring that in with you and then
once you're in there, there are water fountains as well, so you
can refill it and not have to buy water while you're in there.
Yeah, that's a great tip becauseI believe buying a water bottle
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in there is going to cost you like anywhere from like 4 to 6
bucks. Just more.
Yeah, it might be more. But again, like Citi Field,
Yankee Stadium actually has really good stadium food.
So if you want to eat food whileyou're there, it's a great
option. It also has won awards.
In 2023, it was voted run up forthe best stadium food. 2024 it
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was a runner up for the best MLBstadium overall.
And then in 2025 it was runner up for both best MLB stadium
again and best baseball stadium food.
Almost not surprising, but like kind of surprising.
Like it's, you don't think, oh, I'm going to go to a stadium and
have like all this great food, but it's New York.
Of course New York stadiums are going to have like good food
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options because they're going tobring in local spots and have
them available in the stadium. And so, you know, you're going
to get good high quality food. It's going to be expensive, but
it's going to be great, great food.
Honestly I recommend like if you're really hungry maybe get a
bite before the game, but if yougo into the stadium just be
prepared to pay stadium prices. But you're going to find very
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solid food options that maybe you won't get anywhere else in
the city. Some that people recommend,
there's a judge like Aaron JudgeBurger.
Fuku has good chicken tenders. There's a Halal guys like the
classic Halal guys cart from Midtown, one that came up over
and over again. We still haven't tried it yet,
but we need to is Lobel's steak sandwich.
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But my favorite, our favorite. I'm a big, we've talked about
this before. I love chicken tenders.
It's the best value. And they literally have a thing
at Yankee Stadium called chickenand fries value bucket.
I think it's a pound of tenders and fries.
It might be more. It's it.
Would be. It's like a full like it's a
bucket. It would feed like a family of.
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Six, there was so many fries like tenders were.
How many were there? Like 4 or five tenders.
Maybe 5? More than like your average
serving of chicken tenders. But there were so, so many
fries. And I think it's only like it's
$22.00. Like it's around 20 bucks, which
for like stadium food, chicken tenders, a ton of fries.
I mean it. I mean it it's literally in a
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bucket, like it has a handle. Think like a like a Easter egg
basket like that filled with chicken and fries.
It's quite large. Yeah, we, we passed the fries
around between like a group of five or six of us that were at a
game and we all had some fries and there was still some
leftover. You're not going to get like a
ton of tenders per SE, but you're going to get so many
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fries. Like everyone will get a snack.
Yes for sure. And if you get this chicken and
fries value bucket and you pay with a MasterCard, you get a
free soap. So that's a nice thing as well.
One thing I'll add about Yankee Stadium is that Yankees fans are
they can be intense and they do have a bit of a rap for
sometimes being obnoxious. I hope I don't get any heat for
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saying that and just kind of like being a little bit chaotic.
So just be prepared like especially if you sit on the
outdoor air on the outfield bleachers or if you're up in
like the ultimate nosebleeds where it like the tickets are
super cheap. It might be a rowdy crowd.
It's not something you need to be overly worried about.
You know, just be smart and don't do anything dumb.
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But like, just be aware that like, Yankees fans, I would say
are like a little bit more rowdyand energetic typically than
Mets fans. See, but when we went to the
Mets Stadium, I felt like they were real rowdy in the upper
deck, and I haven't really experienced that at Yankees
games. I mean those were just like 20
year olds who? Those are 20 year olds who acted
(16:05):
like they had never had beer before at the Mets game.
Yeah, like, I haven't like, really experienced, like, a ton
of rowdiness. But you've also been to more
Yankees games. It depends on where you are.
I, I, I think like, just as a generality like New York fans in
general can be like, can. Get heated.
'Cause. We care so much, but also like
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Yankees fans, are probably a little cockier.
Certainly like that, that's partand that's part of like going
back to the beginning of the episode, Like that's part of
like some people's disdain for the Yankees in particular is
like they've won so much and thefans like have this level of
like frankly kind of arrogance about them that like, it just
rubs people the wrong way. But you know what?
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Go to a Yankees game, experiencethe ambiance, taking the subway,
seeing the beautiful sunset, just like seeing all the rich
history throughout the concourses as you walk around
the stadium. It's a great, great experience.
One note on our Yankees fandom, hopefully we don't get any heat
for being bandwagon Yankees fansbecause personally, I don't
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think we deserve that. Because Devin, do you want to
tell everyone who your NFL team is?
The Cleveland Browns I am a die hard Cleveland Browns fan so
anybody who wants to give me heat for jumping on a bandwagon,
they can just take their comments and.
We had a choice to make and we made it and I feel great about
it. And you know what?
If I have to share for the Yankees to make up for all my
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sorrows of being a Cleveland Browns and a Tottenham Hotspur
fan, then you know what? So be it.
We hope you enjoyed this episode.
As we mentioned during the Citi Field and Mets episode, this
originally was an idea from a listener named Austin.
If you have ideas for episodes or topics or specific spots or
ideas you want us to cover, sendus an e-mail
hello@bettertogetherhere.com. And other than that, we'll catch
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you on the next episode. This is the last song on this
spring.
Hey everyone, and welcome to today's episode of the Better
Together Here podcast. My name is Devin.
And my name is Ashley and. In today's episode, we are going
to cover a Yankees game experience.
We talked about the Mets a couple weeks ago and we're going
to talk about the Yankees. Arguably one of the more iconic
New York City things you can do going to a game at Yankee
Stadium. Even if you're not a sports fan,
(00:20):
it's a great, great experience. And also a very fun thing to
take kids to do if you're traveling to the city with kids
We're. Going to talk about a brief
history of Yankee Stadium. We're going to tell you where to
eat and drink before and after and some great food options as
well as a couple insider tips. So let's get right into it.
Growing up, I loved baseball. I have experiences of going on
(00:42):
road trips with my dad to different baseball stadiums in
California. When we would travel, we would
go to baseball stadiums. And growing up, I hated the
Yankees. Like a lot of people.
The Yankees are hated by a lot of sports fans.
Why? Are they hated?
Because they're good. This is just, this is like the
least explainable. It's the unexplainable fandom of
(01:03):
like people hate teams and people that are good.
People love to just hate LeBron James because he's LeBron James
and he's good. He's one of the greatest players
of all time, but people hate him.
Like people hate the Yankees. There's a little bit more like
history. I mean, we don't have time to
dive into this, but like, there's a little more history
with like people hating the Yankees because like, for a lot
(01:24):
of it had to do with them havinglike, spending a lot more money
than other teams. And there's this.
We'd have to go down some deep, deep rabbit holes, but there is
a hatred for the Yankees. Well, not in this household.
Not in this household, fans. Once we moved to New York, I
said to myself, I don't have a real baseball team.
Anyways, went to a Yankees game and frankly I was hooked.
We had an amazing experience at our first Yankees game.
(01:47):
We sat up in, I think it was called the Budweiser corner or
like the Budweiser party deck orsomething like that.
We didn't really know when we bought the tickets, they were
just cheap and we were definitely in the party zone and
there were just some Yankees fans having a great time,
leading some chance, getting people going, giving like a real
authentic Yankees experience andwe were hooked.
(02:08):
Yankees Stadium and the New YorkYankees has such a deep history.
They were originally founded in 19 O3 as the Baltimore Orioles
and then the New York Highlanders.
Now the Yankees, right? They've won 27 World Series,
more than any other baseball team.
You know them for their famous pinstripe uniforms, their NY
logo, and legendary players likeBabe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey
(02:29):
Mantle and Derek Jeter. The current stadium where they
are opened in 2009, and it was built directly across from the
old Yankee Stadium, which is often called the House that Ruth
built. That old stadium was there from
1923 to 2008. So tearing it down was like kind
of removing a legacy. And a big thing of what they
wanted to do with Yankee Stadiumwas preserve some of that
(02:51):
history. So they took some of like the
plaques and monuments that were from the original stadium and
brought them into the new one aswell.
It's a beautiful stadium. It seats 47,000 people.
And it actually features the same dimensions as the old
stadium, including a really famous short right field fence
that's just 314 feet down the line.
(03:12):
So you get a lot of home runs from left-handed hitters into
the right field stands. Again, it's modern.
It's updated, but it still has like a rich history and you just
feel like you're experiencing New York City lore when you go
into Yankee Stadium. I feel like when we've been
there, we've been very lucky to get some beautiful sunsets from
(03:33):
Yankee Stadium. I don't know what it is
specifically about Yankee Stadium.
Or maybe we're just like truly getting lucky that there
happened to be a great sunset that day, but beautiful sunsets
also. I like a Yankee Stadium.
They have a little flag for eachof the teams.
Is it in the whole MLB or is it just the?
Yeah, yeah, in all of the MLB, Ibelieve.
(03:53):
It's just like cute to see like each team's flag all around the
stadium. I think it's cute.
I also love a Yankee Stadium. Depending on where you're
seating. In most seats, you can see when
the subway goes by. It's like kind of this gap in
the stadium and you see the subway go by and it just is this
like picturesque moment of like you're at Yankee Stadium
watching the New York Yankees, seeing the New York subway go
(04:14):
by. It's amazing.
When it comes to where to sit atYankee Stadium, similar to what
we talked about for the for CitiField in our last episode,
there's not a bad seat in the house.
What we usually do is we just scour different ticket apps,
whether it's SeatGeek or Vivid Seats or Ticketmaster, find
whatever's cheapest and just getin.
(04:35):
And in some cases, I actually had an experience where I got
into Yankee Stadium for, I thinkit was 3, maybe $4.00 after
fees. So I went to a professional
baseball game for three or $4.00, which is just
unbelievable. It was like a was.
In last year like in 2024? Yeah, it was.
I think it was last year or the year before.
I biked up there from Manhattan,bought myself a hot dog from a
(04:58):
vendor outside for like, I thinkit was like $5 for two hot dogs.
Watched some kids play baseball at like a little baseball
stadium next to Yankee Stadium and then went into Yankee
Stadium. It was amazing for just a couple
bucks. Obviously if you want to pay the
premium and sit lower, you can, but there's not a bad seat in
the house. We talked about this in our last
(05:19):
episode, but sometimes you just pay for the cheap seats.
Keep an eye where there's openings and make your way down
into lower sections if that's something you're open to doing.
I've personally never gotten in trouble for doing that, but if
you're somebody that like reallylikes to follow the rules and
that type of thing would stress you out, obviously don't do it.
But we've had pretty good luck on getting Nosebleed tickets and
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then around inning like 5 or 6 just moving down to be closer
and it's not usually a problem. And even if you don't go sit in
lower sections, I recommend going and exploring all the
different levels and just walking around and even just
seeing what the views are like throughout the stadium.
Like personally, I just love that about sports arenas.
I like to do a full loop at least once and just kind of see
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the different views and all the different pieces of the stadium.
And that leads us to this episodes New York know how.
Quite unrelated, but this is from the New York City Basic
Tips and Etiquette book by Nathan W Pyle that we have
referenced many times. This is tip #88 and is a picture
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of a man in construction gear. He's got a construction hat on
and he's got a speech bubble saying, I see you're reading a
book. We're just breaking this 4th
wall to tell you be extra alert when walking through a
construction zone. Alertness will help you avoid
dying. And you know what?
Ain't that the truth? Ain't that?
The truth. Some of these construction
workers, they, they're efficient, they are getting the
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job done, but what they're doingis dangerous.
And a lot of times it's right ontop of the sidewalk where a
bunch of people are walking. So there's been a couple times
where I've been walking and all of a sudden like a huge 2 by 4
gets like dropped right in frontof me to the guy that's supposed
to catch it. You, you have to be paying
attention. There's things that can fall.
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The scaffolding can be rickety. I mean, this is like good advice
generally to just be alert as you're walking around New York
City. But specifically if you see
construction people in a construction zone, like head on
a swivel, maybe take your earbuds out and just be paying
attention and you will hopefullynot die.
And that's this episode's New York Know how Keep your head up
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in construction zones. All right, back to the Yankees
game experience. All right, A lot of you want to
know where can you eat or drink before a Yankees game?
The nice thing about Yankees Stadium is that it's right off
of a couple different subway lines.
I believe the D train and the six train go straight to like
they have actual Yankees Stadiumstops.
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And you are also just kind of right in the heart of a part of
the Bronx. There are like you could walk,
you know, 1020 minutes in any direction and kind of not any
direction, but most directions and find some spots to eat.
But what most people do is righton what's called River Ave.
which is just right near the stadium and right where you pop
out from the subway. It's just there's some great
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bars and restaurants and it's kind of just a party scene.
No matter what day you go there will be people pre gaming having
a great time on the streets on River Ave. specifically.
One of our favorite places to goto before the Yankees game is
called Billy's Sports Bar. The first time that I came here
with Devin, he like tried to give me a heads up that like
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it's going to be a club vibe. And in like the front of the
bar, it feels like more of like your typical sports bar.
They have sports on like all thebeers on tap.
People are just kind of sitting and chatting.
But if you go like further towards the back, there's like a
DJ and like party lights and strobe lights and like super
loud music. So I think you can find whatever
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you're looking for at Billy's. And it it's almost like
warehouse style as well 'cause there's multiple levels and the
ceilings are super high in that kind of main area.
There's also a nice outdoor areaduring, you know, when the
weather is good, gets super, super crowded.
So just be prepared for that. A couple other spots right near
Billy's is Stan's Sports Bar. Around the corner there's
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Flava's International Grill, which is Jamaican food.
If you're really on a budget andyou just want to go something
cheaper, there's some good fast food options nearby like Taco
Bell or McDonald's if you want. Or there are plenty of bodegas
where you can grab a sandwich and a nice bodega beer and have
that before you head into the game.
Which a note on that, and we missed this in the Mets slash
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Citi Field episode, but in Yankee Stadium, you can actually
bring in a sealed drink. Not alcohol, but you can bring
in a sealed bottle of water and you can bring in food explicitly
on their website, it says you can bring in food for personal
consumption. So you could get a sandwich at a
bodega, have it in a plastic bagand bring it in with you to
Yankee Stadium and save a lot ofmoney.
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And that leads us to this episodes You'll have to check it
out segment. The next stop is Kafana.
So we have talked about Kafana when we did another episode.
We want to hit on it a little bit more and bring it to your
attention because we absolutely loved our experience at Kafana.
Kafana is extremely authentic Serbian food and it's in the
East Village. We went here maybe by accident.
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I don't remember exactly how we even found this place.
I think we were just searching food near.
I remember you and I were looking for a place for dinner
and you were just on Google Mapsand you found it and you were
like, I got it, This is where we're going.
And it was awesome. Did not disappoint at all.
We had some amazing braised lamb, we had a spinach pie, we
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had their baklava for dessert. They had pretty fairly priced
carafes of wine. So between like a glass and a
bottle? Like 2 1/2 ish glasses. 500
milliliters. So like almost a little, a
little more than half a bottle. Yeah, like 3 glasses.
Then they have great orange wine, which we love orange wine.
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I think the flavors are always just so delicious and refreshing
on like a nice warm summer day. When we went, we actually sat in
their little outdoor seating as well.
But what was great about Kafana and how you know that it is like
authentic and really good is that as we were there, there
were a lot of people coming and going eating there who were
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Serbian. They were speaking the language
and interacting with the staff who were from who were Serbian
as well. And like, to me, that is a
really quick way to know, like this place is authentic if the
people who are actually from where the cuisine cuisine is
that you're eating at the restaurant are coming there as
well. That's Kafana in the East
Village and that's this episodes.
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You'll have to check it out segment.
OK, back to Yankee Stadium and the Yankees games.
Damn clear of the closing doors,please.
OK, we mentioned you can bring food.
You can bring water in. It has to be either empty non
glass water bottles or like a clear factory sealed bottle of
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water that's one liter in size or smaller.
So when as you're walking into the stadium, you'll see people
selling bottles of water, you can get them for like a couple
bucks. Bring that in.
Just don't open it, you know, bring that in with you and then
once you're in there, there are water fountains as well, so you
can refill it and not have to buy water while you're in there.
Yeah, that's a great tip becauseI believe buying a water bottle
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in there is going to cost you like anywhere from like 4 to 6
bucks. Just more.
Yeah, it might be more. But again, like Citi Field,
Yankee Stadium actually has really good stadium food.
So if you want to eat food whileyou're there, it's a great
option. It also has won awards.
In 2023, it was voted run up forthe best stadium food. 2024 it
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was a runner up for the best MLBstadium overall.
And then in 2025 it was runner up for both best MLB stadium
again and best baseball stadium food.
Almost not surprising, but like kind of surprising.
Like it's, you don't think, oh, I'm going to go to a stadium and
have like all this great food, but it's New York.
Of course New York stadiums are going to have like good food
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options because they're going tobring in local spots and have
them available in the stadium. And so, you know, you're going
to get good high quality food. It's going to be expensive, but
it's going to be great, great food.
Honestly I recommend like if you're really hungry maybe get a
bite before the game, but if yougo into the stadium just be
prepared to pay stadium prices. But you're going to find very
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solid food options that maybe you won't get anywhere else in
the city. Some that people recommend,
there's a judge like Aaron JudgeBurger.
Fuku has good chicken tenders. There's a Halal guys like the
classic Halal guys cart from Midtown, one that came up over
and over again. We still haven't tried it yet,
but we need to is Lobel's steak sandwich.
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But my favorite, our favorite. I'm a big, we've talked about
this before. I love chicken tenders.
It's the best value. And they literally have a thing
at Yankee Stadium called chickenand fries value bucket.
I think it's a pound of tenders and fries.
It might be more. It's it.
Would be. It's like a full like it's a
bucket. It would feed like a family of.
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Six, there was so many fries like tenders were.
How many were there? Like 4 or five tenders.
Maybe 5? More than like your average
serving of chicken tenders. But there were so, so many
fries. And I think it's only like it's
$22.00. Like it's around 20 bucks, which
for like stadium food, chicken tenders, a ton of fries.
I mean it. I mean it it's literally in a
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bucket, like it has a handle. Think like a like a Easter egg
basket like that filled with chicken and fries.
It's quite large. Yeah, we, we passed the fries
around between like a group of five or six of us that were at a
game and we all had some fries and there was still some
leftover. You're not going to get like a
ton of tenders per SE, but you're going to get so many
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fries. Like everyone will get a snack.
Yes for sure. And if you get this chicken and
fries value bucket and you pay with a MasterCard, you get a
free soap. So that's a nice thing as well.
One thing I'll add about Yankee Stadium is that Yankees fans are
they can be intense and they do have a bit of a rap for
sometimes being obnoxious. I hope I don't get any heat for
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saying that and just kind of like being a little bit chaotic.
So just be prepared like especially if you sit on the
outdoor air on the outfield bleachers or if you're up in
like the ultimate nosebleeds where it like the tickets are
super cheap. It might be a rowdy crowd.
It's not something you need to be overly worried about.
You know, just be smart and don't do anything dumb.
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But like, just be aware that like, Yankees fans, I would say
are like a little bit more rowdyand energetic typically than
Mets fans. See, but when we went to the
Mets Stadium, I felt like they were real rowdy in the upper
deck, and I haven't really experienced that at Yankees
games. I mean those were just like 20
year olds who? Those are 20 year olds who acted
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like they had never had beer before at the Mets game.
Yeah, like, I haven't like, really experienced, like, a ton
of rowdiness. But you've also been to more
Yankees games. It depends on where you are.
I, I, I think like, just as a generality like New York fans in
general can be like, can. Get heated.
'Cause. We care so much, but also like
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Yankees fans, are probably a little cockier.
Certainly like that, that's partand that's part of like going
back to the beginning of the episode, Like that's part of
like some people's disdain for the Yankees in particular is
like they've won so much and thefans like have this level of
like frankly kind of arrogance about them that like, it just
rubs people the wrong way. But you know what?
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Go to a Yankees game, experiencethe ambiance, taking the subway,
seeing the beautiful sunset, just like seeing all the rich
history throughout the concourses as you walk around
the stadium. It's a great, great experience.
One note on our Yankees fandom, hopefully we don't get any heat
for being bandwagon Yankees fansbecause personally, I don't
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think we deserve that. Because Devin, do you want to
tell everyone who your NFL team is?
The Cleveland Browns I am a die hard Cleveland Browns fan so
anybody who wants to give me heat for jumping on a bandwagon,
they can just take their comments and.
We had a choice to make and we made it and I feel great about
it. And you know what?
If I have to share for the Yankees to make up for all my
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sorrows of being a Cleveland Browns and a Tottenham Hotspur
fan, then you know what? So be it.
We hope you enjoyed this episode.
As we mentioned during the Citi Field and Mets episode, this
originally was an idea from a listener named Austin.
If you have ideas for episodes or topics or specific spots or
ideas you want us to cover, sendus an e-mail
hello@bettertogetherhere.com. And other than that, we'll catch
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you on the next episode. This is the last song on this
spring.
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