The new $1.5 billion Yankee Stadium offers many more thrills than just a baseball game, including 12 restaurants, 1,200 video monitors and a museum dedicated to the baseball team. Borough reporter Dean Meminger took a look inside the opulent new facility and filed the following report.

The new Yankee Stadium is more than 60 percent bigger than the old, empty stadium which still stands across the street.

Lonn Trost, the baseball team's chief operating officer, gave the media a tour of the stadium Tuesday, and says the facility is much more than a ballpark.

"We created a class-A facility right here in the Bronx. At the same time it fits. It doesn't look like you are looking at a ballpark in the middle of a residential area," says Trost.

Visitors will have plenty to do at the stadium beyond watching the game. The facility's 12 restaurants include the Hard Rock Cafe and the New York Yankee Steakhouse, where a piece of beef could cost $50.

While fans are getting a steak, or just a frank, they will never miss a play, as there are at least 1,200 video monitors around the stadium. There is also a huge monitor in center field that measures a whopping 100-feet-wide by 59-feet-high.

There are also 1,400 photos of the ball club throughout the stadium, which showcase past legends and snapshots of legends in the making.

"When they walk in and look out, they will know they are looking at yankee stadium," says Trost.

Proud Bronx Bombers fans can take a walk down memory lane by visiting the Yankee Museum, which has baseballs signed by 620 Yankee players and counting, as well as the new and improved Monument Park.

In order to let fans take this all in, the stadium will open three hours before each game.

By the ball field, the new stadium has about 4,000 fewer seats than the old stadium. Yankees management say they did not want fewer seats, but that it is the result of getting more spacious, comfortable seats for the team's bigger and wider fans.

"You take an inch from here, an inch from there, you are taking feet and taking yards. That is what reduced capacity," says Trost.

The 56 private luxury suites, party rooms and a conference room also take up plenty of space and will bring in plenty of money for the Bombers.

Other parts of the stadium are not accessible to fans, including a luxurious player's clubhouse, a weight room, whirlpools and an indoor batting cage.

Lastly, if a Yankee doesn't like the way he is playing on the field, he can always go to the video room and watch his mistake on monitors from any angle.