KeySpan Park
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KeySpan Park is a minor league baseball stadium in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York City. The home team is the New York Mets-affiliated Brooklyn Cyclones of the New York - Penn League. Official seating capacity is 7,500.
Features include a concourse with free-standing concession buildings and overhanging fluorescent lamps in different colors, evoking an amusement park atmosphere. In addition, the park overlooks the Atlantic Ocean as well as the famous Parachute Jump.
The park opened in 2001 with a capacity of 6,500. Demand for Cyclones tickets was so great that the team added 1,000 seats in a right-field bleacher pavilion within three weeks after the park opened.
The name of the park comes from KeySpan Energy, a utility company whose primary holding is the former Brooklyn Union Gas. KeySpan paid for the naming rights to the park.
KeySpan Park was built on the old site of Steeplechase Park, an old-time Coney Island amusement park that last closed its doors on September 20, 1964 after its worst season in a quarter of a century and amid increasing gang and violent activity in Coney Island and the subways that run to the area.
The band Phish began its last tour during the Summer of 2004 with a two-night stand at KeySpan Park.
External links
- Stadium Views - Ball Parks of the Minor Leagues (http://www.geocities.com/paulsminorleagueparks/Brooklyn.htm)
- KeySpan Park on Brooklyn Cyclones Web site (http://www.brooklyncyclones.net/mainpark.shtml)