Are there any New Yorkers here? What is going on with NYC landmarks?!?!

I haven't been to NY for many years, and so I've been "out of the loop" about what's been going on there with the impending destruction of some of NY's historic sites. I couldn't even enjoy watching the All-Star game the other nite, because all I could think about is how they're going to tear down Yankee Stadium. Then, to my horror, I discovered that Shea Stadium is being torn down as well, and replaced by a stadium sponsored by "Citibank" which will be called "Citi Field". This is HORRIBLE! At least the new Yankee stadium is still going to be called "Yankee Stadium" and not "Wal-Mart Field", or something.

What the hell?!

I don't even want to get into what's going on (or not going on) at ground zero.......

Geez, I leave NY and this is what happens. It's extremely depressing. :-( 

Citi Field, ouch. Yeah, the world totally sucks these days. The tree me and my friends used to build tree houses in (houses plural, because they usually fell down after a couple of days), the canal that ran under it (which the tree house usually fell into, causing our precious lumber to float away), and the surrounding vast and endless wheatfields are all gone now, in their places are a Wal-Mart, a Mormon church, a K-Mart, and about a zillion houses. The world changes and it is extremely depressing. 

Before you know it, Mt. Rushmore will be torn down and replaced with a new mountian featuring more up-to-date Presidents (such as Bill Clinton, JFK, Obama if he wins, and someone else), the Statue of Liberty will go down (on account of her being too French and the fact that we no longer believe in liberty) and will be replaced with the Statue of Commercialism, it will be a full color staue modeling the latest clothing trends. It will have speech abilities and talk about what great sells Dior, Macy's, Gap, or whoever else feels like paying them, has going on that week.

Everything is disposable now. Very few things escape the wrecking ball. I thought things were getting better after the 1960s, when they started to realize what we were losing, and they started passing preservation laws. Yankee Stadium is eligible, and they could renovate it again like they did in 1976- but they don't want to bother. Just knock it down and start all over again someplace else. I think Shea Stadium is old enough to be eligible, too, but who cares. The Beatles played there- so what. It's sickening.

Not to demean this in any particular way, but is it that big a deal that these are getting teared down?  Granted, they are probably of hitsoric value - but some thing could probably use work there at those places.  The renaming to "Citi field" PISSES ME off, though; commercialism is something that I hate with a passion.

It it a big deal to tear down the stadium where Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gherig played? (albeit in renovated form), or the stadium where the '69 Mets won the World Series and the Beatles played in 1965? I think to most baseball fans and/or New Yorkers, it is.

There ya go.  Why tear down the stadium Babe Ruth played at?  There, I'm on your side.

A lot of people would say, "well, it's not the same place Babe Ruth played because it had a major overhaul in 1976", but it's still the same space, he played in, even if the structure around it is different. This new stadium is going to be built on another site altogether, and that's what upsets me.