The Flushing Flash

[Guest Edgy DC]

Flushing in Flushing on Saturday

There will be a lot of flushing going on in, uh, Flushing this weekend.

One of the final steps of preparing Citi Field for its March 29 debut is making sure the plumbing works, so Saturday a group of employees from the Mets and its plumbing contractor will run around the stadium � yes � flushing toilets.

�We�re going to simulate a day at the game, with all the water going off at the same time,� said Marie Morena, vice president of Cardoza Plumbing Corp., which installed all of Citi Field�s plumbing, piping, equipment and fixtures.

Morena said she gathered 300 people to do the flushing by talking to office personnel and workers on the job, though word spread among Mets fans so quickly that she received many calls. �I could have had a thousand people there,� she said. �It�s a security issue.�

-- Jim Baumbach, awaiting word from the Yankees to see if they've done their flushing check in the new Yankee Stadium.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

In other worthless news:


Dave Howard, Exec. VP, Business Operations for the NY Mets takes back Shea Stadium and hands Claudia Ma the new Citi Field that she designed and built. Harbus for News

]Queens Museum of Art swaps model of Shea Stadium for pint-sized Citi replica BY Nicholas Hirshon DAILY NEWS WRITER Shea Stadium, you're outta here! A month after the last piece of the Mets' longtime ballpark came down, the Queens Museum of Art Monday replaced a 6-inch-long Shea replica with a pint-size Citi Field on its massive panorama of New York City. "It's an end of an era," said Tom Finkelpearl, the museum's executive director. "It's an important part of the history of this whole area." Finkelpearl and executives from Citibank and the Mets took off their shoes and slipped on plastic booties to navigate the 9,335-square-foot panorama - walking up the East River to reach Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Claudia Ma, a 20-year-old architecture major from the City College of New York, snatched Shea and carefully set down the 6-ounce, basswood miniature of Citi Field she and two other CCNY students spent four months making. Later, standing alongside the rest of the CCNY team - Steven de Laurentiis, 22, and Ricky Shum, 20 - Ma admitted she worried about dropping the tiny Citi Field. "I was nervous, but at the same time it's a huge event so you don't want to mess up," Ma said. The Citi Field unveiling marked the first change to the panorama - built for the 1964 World's Fair - since the 1992 updating of 65,000 structures, or about 7% of the model. Museum officials also announced a new "adopt-a-building" program where donors can buy naming rights for some of the structures by contributing to the panorama's maintenance. Costs range from $50 for an apartment to $250 for single-family homes to $10,000 for landmarks. There are no plans to replace Yankee Stadium until the old one is torn down and the World Trade Center will remain until new construction rises at Ground Zero, Finkelpearl said.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Have they checked the toilets at the Big Bank in the Bronx? Why, yes, they have.

(Pics from flushing day at the URL below:)

http://nyyankeesrumors.com/new-yankee-stadium-construction-photo-update-2209/

[MFS62]

I remember when Leon Hess said the reason he moved the Jets from Shea to the new place in New Jersey was because the bathrooms at Shea didn't work. The new ones will be flushed with pride.

Later

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

The more I see of that place, the more I think playing baseball there is an afterthought.

[Farmer Ted]

I read somewhere that the urinals in Citi will be of the "waterless" variety. They did that in Philly for the football stadium and the plumbers union freaked so they installed regular plumbing in the event that they want to switch back. Read into that any way you want.