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Originally Posted by dilanesp
There is literally no way anyone is opening events for 10,000 people this summer.
I am not sure people realize how much space 10,000 prople, 6 feet apart, take up.
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You're probably right. Not necessarily for good reasons, but you're probably right (see pics from Central Park May 2 weekend- they "opened up" Central Park for people not sure why the Spa w/10,000 people would be much different)
I did wonder about your question. I do think it's more like groups of say 4 being 6 feet apart. I'm no engineer, but I think in a 72 sq ft- a 12 by 6- box you would fit 24 people- 6 groups of 4. To fit 10,000 stationary people, you would need 417 such boxes, or about 30,000 sq. ft.
I don't know how big the backyard is, but according to the NYRA site the building floor space is 385,000 sq feet. Let's assume, for arguments sake, the backyard is 1/3 that or about 125,000 sq ft (The backyard seems bigger than the grandstand footprint, but the grandstand has 2-3 stories) and the space people can actually fit in the building is 1/2 the building size, or about 190,000 sq ft. Add in say 50,000 sq ft for the apron. Plenty of space. Now you have to allot for choke points, queuing at admissions, taking a piss, etc., but even if you go with 1/10th of the required size for a stationary group you'd have plenty of space. Throw in a mask requirement for moving around you have even more.
Is this realistic? Probably not, if for no other reason than opening an attraction brings in out of towners, etc (there was a term of art the Commandant Cuomo used for this but I forget what it was). But it is doable.
Let's see how many people in Central Park this weekend got sick or got others sick. Would be pretty nice to know...
