Teyana Taylor Jay-Z Yankee Stadium turned into a long wait for concertgoers on a night that was supposed to start at 8 p.m. A security breach at Jay-Z's third and final Yankee Stadium concert pushed the show to around 12:15 a.m. after the stadium went into a full lockdown.
Gate 2, then Gate 4
Rosalynn Glover said she got to the stadium a little after 8 and first tried Gate 2. She described people getting past security and entering without checks before that entrance shut down, then said the same thing happened at Gate 4.
"We got here a little after 8, went to Gate 2, they bum rushed Gate 2. Bum rushed. People went past security, were not checked and got into the stadium. They closed down Gate 2, we went to Gate 4, same thing happened," Glover told Eyewitness News.
Thousands outside Yankee Stadium
Thousands of fans were left outside Yankee Stadium while no one was allowed in or out for a period. The gates reopened shortly before 10 p.m. with police patrolling each entrance, but the delay had already pushed the night several hours past the planned start.
Glover said access stayed restricted even after she reached the suite section. "We were at the suite section, they would not even let us in there," she said.
Atlanta to the Bronx
Glover also said the wait cut deeper because she traveled for the show. "The people working at Gate 4 were laughing. They were taunting us and laughing, which I don't find funny, when we spend our hard-earned money to be here. I flew in here from Atlanta," she said.
That complaint goes to the part of this story that matters most: the crowd did not just lose time, it was split between people who were blocked at the gates and others who got through security unchecked. Jay-Z eventually took the stage around 12:15 a.m., ending a night that began as a scheduled 8 p.m. concert and turned into a test of how Yankee Stadium handles a security failure in real time.
