New York Post

YANKS A NOT TICKET

Good team, bad sales

- By ELIZABETH ROSNER, JAZMIN ROSA and DAVID K. LI

The house that Jeter built has become a ghost town — with the new Yankee Stadium hitting its all-time turnstile low this week.

Despite playing excellent .600 ball so far this young season, the attendance­s tarved Bombers can’t shake their ticket-selling slump and pull in fans.

The latest incarnatio­n of Yankee Stadium opened in 2009, and the Bombers ranked No. 1 or 2 in MLB attendance for the first four seasons.

They slipped to fourth, third and fourth in attendance in 2013, 2014 and 2015, respective­ly, before falling to No. 6 last season and sixth again this young campaign.

The attendance woes were driven home Monday night, when a paid crowd of 25,566 watched the Bombers’ loss to the Toronto Blue Jays in The Bronx, marking the smallest “crowd” in the history of new Yankee Stadium.

Fans cited sky-high prices and the lack of establishe­d stars as factors keeping them away.

Oddly, the attendance woes come at the dawn of what could be a grand new era for the franchise.

Young talents such as Aaron Judge, Didi Gregorius and Starlin Castro have supplanted retired stars like Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez.

“Jeter and A-Rod put people in the seats,” fan Ben Ross, 37, said while shopping at a Yankees Clubhouse store in Midtown. But the bottom line for many fans is ticket price. FoFor example, a fieldlelev­el seat by the foul pole at Tuesday’s game cost $92. Across the country, at a Los AAngeles Dodgers gamgame, an equivalent seat cocosts $57. “The most obvious thing is the prices,” educator Sheldon Kamienieck­im 65, said at the Clubhouse store.

Yankees President Randy Levine said Tuesday he’s not worried about the relatively low attendance.

“It’s just been one and a half home stands, a really insignific­ant sample size,” Levine told The Post.

He conceded that casual fans may not yet have caught up with the team’s new talent.

“It does take a little time,” Levine said.

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