Any Dodgers fan visiting New York is certain to have questions.
Why is the Statue of Liberty calling for a right-handed reduction pitcher? Why does the await trains alongside the Excessive Line look like perpetually? Can I belief these tacos? When the sport is over, are we going to listen to Randy Newman?
We’ve got no solutions. However we do have this journey advisory for any Dodgers fan contemplating a fast journey east.
Broadway: That is the Manhattan avenue the place the Mets had a grand ticker-tape parade after successful the 1969 World Sequence in Shea Stadium. Quickly after, ticker tape, Shea Stadium and successful Mets seasons all fell out of fashion.
The Bronx: That is the positioning of the unique Yankee Stadium, the place the Dodgers’ Don Larsen pitched an ideal recreation in 1956 and the place the Dodgers beat the Yankees, 9-2, to win the 1981 World Sequence. In a later bid to blot out these recollections, the Yankees leveled that stadium and constructed one other one throughout the road.
Carnegie Corridor: Image the Hollywood Bowl with out the hills, the celebrities, the breeze or bring-your-own alcohol.
Central Park: That is what you’d get in the event you flattened Griffith Park, razed its observatory, shrunk its zoo, obliterated its golf programs and let the drum circle pound away all weekend. Good fountain, although.
The East River: A shorter, wider L.A. River, equally appropriate for swimming.
Katz’s Delicatessen: This Decrease East Facet eatery is the setting for the well-known scene in “When Harry Met Sally” when Meg Ryan, eating with Billy Crystal, pretends she’s truly consuming at Langer’s Deli in Los Angeles.
Little Italy: Eataly, The Prequel.
Metropolitan Museum of Artwork: An pointless museum, with minimal baseball content material and artwork that’s both older than what LACMA has or youthful than what the Getty Villa has. In its favor, the museum does stage the Met Gala, an annual spectacle wherein celebrities costume like Mets out of uniform.
Endurance and Fortitude: These are the names of the stone lions that preside over the steps to the primary New York Public Library. Chances are you’ll discover examples of the latter round city. The previous, not a lot.
That low rumble you retain listening to: Don’t fear. It’s not Pete Alonso rounding third. It’s the subway.
Instances Sq.: New Yorkers collect right here every New 12 months’s Eve to shiver, hear Anderson Cooper filibuster and distract themselves from the truth that the Yankees haven’t received a World Sequence in 15 years and the Mets haven’t received one on this century.
U.N. Headquarters: These are the individuals answerable for bringing peace to the world. After that they’re going to type out the Dodgers’ beginning rotation.
Brooklyn: Effectively, that is awkward. Jackie Robinson is buried right here. Pee Wee Reese spent 94% of his profession right here. Sandy Koufax grew up and made his first main league begin right here in 1955. Notable places embody Ebbets Discipline Flats, a 1,300-unit advanced in-built 1962 on Bedford Avenue, the place a ballpark was.
