{"id":931453,"date":"2026-07-13T06:56:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/931453\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:56:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:56:28","slug":"final-jay-z-concert-at-yankee-stadium-delayed-for-hours-after-confusion-outside-gates-fans-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/931453\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Jay-Z concert at Yankee Stadium delayed for hours after confusion outside gates, fans say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was confusion and frustration at Yankee Stadium on Sunday night for the final show of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/jay-z-nyc-yankee-stadium-concerts\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jay-Z&#8217;s anniversary concert series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The show was supposed to start at 8 p.m., but video shows long lines of fans crowded outside hours later.  <\/p>\n<p>Some told CBS News New York they weren&#8217;t being allowed in despite having tickets.<\/p>\n<p>One fan said when she arrived at the stadium at 8:15 p.m., all of the gates were closed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was no staff person outside. So you have thousands of people who&#8217;s been on line,&#8221; concertgoer Monique Brown said. &#8220;I chose not to be on line because I don&#8217;t want to be trampled or anything like that, but you have thousands of people that&#8217;s been standing on line, and every gate for the stadium is closed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As of 10:30 p.m., the show still hadn&#8217;t started.<\/p>\n<p>Fans posted on social media that an announcer asked the crowd for patience as they work to allow everyone into the stadium safely.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear why the gates were closed.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News New York reached out to Roc Nation for comment but has not yet heard back.<\/p>\n<p>Stay with CBS News New York for the latest on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was confusion and frustration at Yankee Stadium on Sunday night for the final show of Jay-Z&#8217;s anniversary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":931454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,8381,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,43782],"class_list":["post-931453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-jay-z","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-yankee-stadium"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116911367056394491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=931453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/931454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}