NY Yankees unveil
new additions to the
stadium menu
BY ALEX MITCHELL
While the New York Yankees
are heating up in Florida,
Yankee Stadium was
doing some cooking of its
own, unveiling a new food
and beverage menu for the
2019 season on a gorgeous
Wednesday, March 20.
Just like the Bombers
roster, the stadium’s 2019
menu will be returning
plenty of Yankee favorites
like the Pinstripe Pilsner
Beer while bringing in some
new acquisitions as well.
Some of those new menu
items called up to the big
leagues are: the crispy maple
chicken sandwich; and
the melted, white cheddar
cheese beneath a chicken (so
crispy that it cracks more
than the bat of Aaron Judge)
will surely make the new
item an immediate fan favorite
sold around the ballpark.
Additionally, Bareburger’s
vegan ‘Impossible
Burger’ will make a Bronx
debut come the regular season.
Baseball jargon will
New York Yankees senior executive
chef Matt Gibson. Photo
by Curtis Heath
christen the meatless burger
as the ‘The Changeup’ and it
will be sold at the section 132
food court.
Yankee Stadium head executive
chef Matt Gibson, a
self-proclaimed meat lover,
offered nothing but praise
for the burger enigma, stating,
“it really does pack a
punch.”
Previously, he helped design
a food line for the stadium’s
Kings Hawaiian station
during the 2018 regular
season.
Traces of that sweet n’
spicy Pacifi c zing are also
in the Buffalo Wild Wings
‘Asian Zing’ sauce, which
will come to Yankee Stadium
for the fi rst time as
well.
Other notables on the
new menu are the mozzarella
sticks from Chelsea
Market’s Big Mozz, the burrata
burger from City Winery,
and of course..the newest
dessert that will sweep
over 1 E. 161st Street, the
Tres Leches milkshake.
This one is simply out
of the park, the vanilla ice
cream and condensed milk
make the churro and mini
Tres Leches cake taste even
sweeter in this new concoction
that’s as exciting as the
Giancarlo Stanton trade.
To taste these and many
more of the new stadium
items, swing by the hallowed
grounds during a
home game.
We’re sure its doors will
be open through the end of
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(Right) A Tres Leches Shake with a crispy chicken
sandwich. (Left) Pinstripe Pils. Photos by Curtis Heath
A photo of a recent year’s John Gilder Memorial Lawn Party, which will be held on City Island for the
10th time this July. Photo courtesy of the John Gilder Memorial Lawn Party / File Photo
City Is.-based charity helps
substance abuse treatment program
BY PATRICK ROCCHIO
An annual charitable
foundation again came
through for Jacobi Medical
Center.
The John Gilder Memorial
Scholarship Fund,
which hosts a lawn party
each year on City Island,
made a donation of $1,000 to
the hospital to use towards
the purchase of additional
recreational equipment for
the outpatient substance
abuse treatment program
lounge.
A spokesman for Jacobi
said that the grant,
matched by the Jacobi Auxiliary
approximately dollar
for dollar, was used to buy
a fl at screen television, an
air hockey table, resurface
a pool table and make other
improvements to encourage
program participants.
“The patients at Jacobi
are deeply appreciative
of the Gilder donation,” a
spokesperson for the hospital
said, adding that the
donation exhibited the type
of kindness that Gilder
showed during his life.
The scholarship fund
was started in memory of
a young man who grew up
on City Island and passed
away at a very early age.
It has fully endowed
scholarships that go to local
youths who attend Fordham
University, as Gilder did
when he passed away suddenly
at the age of 23 in 2009
from an undiagnosed heart
condition.
Once the scholarships
were fully endowed, the
fund looked for other causes
to support, initially helping
City Island Little League
teams, said Jack Jokinen,
who runs the charity
with Gilder’s father Mark
Gilder.
Jokinen became aware
of the deaths of several of
John’s former friends and
acquaintances when he
sent out the yearly lawn
John Gilder
Photo courtesy of John Gilder Memorial Lawn Party /File Photo
party invitations for the
July event.
“We wanted to help the
community and give directly
back to the people
who are giving this money,”
said Jokinen.
For several years, early
in the planning Jokinen
would send out ‘save the
date’ invitations to the
party and then follow up in
June, he said.
“We found for three or
four years in between the
time we sent the save the
date and the follow up, we
had to remove people from
the list because they overdosed
and died,” said Jokinen.
Jokinen said that he
reached out to an old friend
who was fi ghting a drug addiction,
and he suggested
repairing the recreation
room at Jacobi’s substance
abuse program.
His friend said the recreation
room was really ‘beat
up,’ and as a result, some
of the people being treated
were leaving the building
and getting into trouble instead
of relaxing, said Jokinen.
During his life, John
urged his friends to refrain
from drug use, said Jokinen.
“The motivation and
where it ties into to John
is these were his friends,”
said Jokinen. “John wasn’t
a drug user and before he
passed he told friends who
were that they were ruining
their lives.”
He added: “This is something
we think John would
support and be proud of.”
Additionally, the charity
sponsored Naloxone, a
substance that serves an
antidote to opioid overdose,
training on City Island.
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