Yankee Stadium-Macombs Dam Park

Park · Bronx

Yankee Stadium-Macombs Dam Park covers the ballpark and parkland along East 161st Street and River Avenue on the Bronx side of the Harlem River.

  • 0.10 square miles
  • 1 street corner
  • 1 subway station
  • 3 bus routes

The park is named for the Macomb family of millers, whose Robert Macomb gained permission from the state legislature in 1813 to dam the Harlem River here; it opened in 1899, and the original Yankee Stadium was built beside it in 1923. The current Yankee Stadium opened in April 2009 on former Macombs Dam Park land a block north of the old ballpark, and the park now occupies the original stadium's footprint.

Sources: Macombs Dam Park (NYC Parks); The Bronx (The Bronx County Historical Society); Yankee Stadium (Wikipedia); Highbridge, Bronx (Wikipedia).

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Yankee Stadium-Macombs Dam Park borders two areas.

Street map of Yankee Stadium-Macombs Dam Park, Bronx, outlined among Concourse-Concourse Village and Highbridge, with its paths, the streets around it and its one subway station.HighbridgeConcourse-Concourse Village
  • Yankee Stadium-Macombs Dam Park
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 161 St-Yankee Stadium lines 4 B D accessible

Getting around

One subway station and buses on three routes stop in or at the edge of Yankee Stadium-Macombs Dam Park.

  • 1 subway station
  • 1 listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 3 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • Bx6
  • Bx6-SBS
  • Bx13

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, police reported 2 crashes at its one corner; the average Bronx corner had 8.0.

Signal or safety changes on City record, at its one corner

Accessible pedestrian signals
1
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1

Camera tickets

In 2025 the Department of Finance recorded no red-light, school-zone speed or bus-lane camera ticket at its corners.

Parks

Parkland
49.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Macombs Dam Park (34.4 acres) and Rev. T. Wendell Foster Park and Recreation Center (15 acres)

Streets and trees

Trees
1,002 in NYC Parks' records, most often American elm, northern red oak and London planetree

Schools

The City lists one school in Yankee Stadium-Macombs Dam Park.

Public school
1

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, five bike-share stations stand in Yankee Stadium-Macombs Dam Park.

  • 5 bike-share stations

The corner

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.