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Inside Citi Field, the Home of the New York Mets

July 8, 2010 at 11:41 AM | by | Comments (0)

It's July and we're already halfway through the baseball season, can you believe it? To get in touch with America's favorite pastime and to update our series on Baseball Travel, we headed out towards New York's LaGuardia Airport this week to catch some games between the New York Mets and the Cincinnati Reds at Citi Field.

Since the Reds ended up beating the Mets two nights out of three here on the Mets' home turf, we spent as much time wandering around the impressive stadium as watching the games. Citi Field, which sits on the former home of Shea Stadium, only opened last year and so everything still feels so shiny and new. In fact, you can still jump onto Shea's home plate; it's now a commemorative spot in Citi Field's parking lot.

So what goodies does the new Citi Field contain for the 40,000 fans who pack the park during games? Oh, so much...

Our cheap $19 seats sat us squarely up in the nosebleeds above the outfield, but the beauty of Citi Field is that they've installed railings with cupholders behind most sections on lower levels, so that you can stand in a better viewing position for the price of those cheapest seats. Or you can abandon a good view of the game altogether for lunch on the picnic tables down behind the bullpen, where you can watch pitchers warm up from like twenty feet away.

Perhaps our favorite part of Citi Field is the variety of food options. There's NYC-famous Shake Shack, a branch of the Belgian Pommes Frites fry shop, a Lobster shack, your typical Kosher hot dog stands, and tacos and bacon burgers at every corner. Sign a pledge to be a designated driver and it'll earn you a free 16 oz soda, which alone costs like $4. For a fancier options, there's the reservations-required and air conditioned Acela Club, so named because of sponsorship of the ballpark from Amtrak. Their $45 prix-fixe dinner turned us off, but a brunch here during an earlier game on a hot day sounds just right.

Check out photos of all this and more in a our gallery, which just happens to be from Monday's excellent "Pyrotechnics Night," the best night to attend in our opinion. Unless they're giving away Slankets, and then we're totally there too.

[All photos: Jaunted]

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