Giants Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium Multi-purpose stadiums are a type of stadium designed for use by multiple teams playing baseball, American football, soccer, and, in some cases, basketball and ice hockey or other sports. Some multi-purpose stadiums were initially built to accommodate one sport and subsequently renovated to accommodate multiple sports, while others were initially located in East Rutherford, New Jersey East Rutherford is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey. As of the United States 2000 Census, the borough population was 8,716. It is an inner-ring suburb of New York City, located 7 miles west of Midtown Manhattan, USA, in the Meadowlands Sports Complex. It primarily serves as the home stadium A modern stadium is a place, or venue, for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event for the New York Giants The New York Giants are an American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The team plays its home games at Giants Stadium, which also serves as its headquarters, and trains at an adjacent practice facility within the Meadowlands Sports Complex. In a unique arrangement, the team shares the stadium with the New York Jets and also the and New York Jets The New York Jets are a professional American football team based in the Northeastern New Jersey part of the tri-state New York metropolitan area. They are members of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League (NFL). The team plays its home games in East Rutherford, New Jersey, at Giants Stadium. The American football American football, known in the United States simply as football and often as gridiron or tackle football outside North America, is a competitive team sport known for combining strategy with physical play. The objective of the game is to score points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. The ball can be advanced by carrying it teams of the NFL The National Football League is the largest American Professional Football league in the world. It was formed by eleven teams in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association, with the league changing its name to the National Football League in 1922. The league currently consists of thirty-two teams from the United States. The league is, and the New York Red Bulls Red Bull New York is an American professional soccer organization based in New Jersey that fields a team in Major League Soccer called the New York Red Bulls. The team plays their home matches at Giants Stadium located at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey but is currently constructing a new stadium in Harrison, New soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball. It is widely considered to be the most popular sport in the world team of MLS Major League Soccer is a professional soccer league based in the United States and sanctioned by United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer). The league comprises 16 teams, 15 in the U.S. and one in Canada, which is scheduled to become 18 teams by the beginning of the 2011 season. MLS represents the top tier of the American and Canadian soccer. Maximum seating capacity Seating capacity refers to the number of people who can be seated in a specific space, either in terms of the physical space available, or in terms of limitations set by law. Seating capacity can be used in the description of anything ranging from an automobile that seats two to a stadium that seats over 100,000 people. The largest sporting venue is 78,741[2], making it the third-largest NFL stadium behind FedEx Field and the brand-new Cowboys Stadium. It is also the ninth-oldest stadium used by an NFL team. Giants Stadium will be closed and demolished in 2010 when the new Meadowlands Stadium opens.
The stadium is located at State Route 120 and State Route 3 (which is accessed from Midtown Manhattan Midtown Manhattan, or simply Midtown, is an area of Manhattan, New York City home to world-famous commercial zones such as Rockefeller Center, Broadway, and Times Square. Midtown Manhattan is home to the city's tallest and most famous buildings such as the Empire State Building and Chrysler Building via the Lincoln Tunnel The Lincoln Tunnel is a 1.5 mile long tunnel under the Hudson River, connecting Weehawken, New Jersey and the borough of Manhattan in New York City). The New Jersey Turnpike The New Jersey Turnpike is a toll road in New Jersey and is one of the most heavily traveled highways in the United States . A majority of the mainline as well as the entirety of both extensions and spurs are part of the Interstate Highway System. Construction of the Turnpike from conceptualization to opening took 23 months, from 1950 to 1952. The is also close by. It is also accessible by rail via New Jersey Transit's The New Jersey Transit Corporation is a statewide public transportation system serving the state of New Jersey, United States, and Orange and Rockland counties in New York. It operates bus, light rail, and commuter rail services throughout the state, notably connecting to major commercial and employment centers both within the state and in the Meadowlands Station, but only for events when more than 50,000 attendees are expected.
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George Richards
Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:56:43 GM
The new . stadium. looks pretty cool. Should be much nicer. Getting here was real smooth, although cabby almost got lost however when I told him I wanted to go to the Jets game. 'Where?' he asked. 'Oh yeah,' I said. '. GIANTS Stadium. .' ...
