Design
The Richmond County Bank Ballpark was designed to take advantage of the stadium’s location overlooking New York Harbor. The main entrance to the stadium is located on street level with the seating bowl and field built below street level. Sails at each entrance are a reference to boats which are always passing beyond the outfield wall. The batter’s eye in center field is able to retract so that spectators can view the skyline of New York City.
A replica of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is located on top of the main scoreboard.
The outfield walls have changed several times over the course of the stadium’s history. Originally the stadium had four LED video boards spaced out on the outfield wall that would display rotating advertisements throughout the game. After these boards malfunctioned the team replaced them with traditional signage along the wall. These signs were replaced with a new 200-foot-long (61 m) video board in right field in 2007. The new video board is one of the longest in the minors. Also in 2007 the Ballpark received a brand new high-definition main video board on top of the scoreboard.
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