Bronx, N.Y. – On an evening when many New Yorkers were engrossed in the Yankees’ final World Series game, the heated discussion unfolding a few miles from the new stadium had little to do with baseball. Rather, it was politics.

Gathered at Hostos Community College, a group called the For the South Bronx Coalition – who have, since May, been trying to raise awareness of environmental and economic issues surrounding the building of the new Yankee Stadium – decided they need to rally more community support around the cause.

“Listen, the Bronx has to wake up,” South Bronx resident Alex Coss told fellow members. But to mobilize people around the issues, the coalition’s roughly 15 members will have to find a way to communicate their message to South Bronx residents and grab media attention.

Their main focus: A 2006 Community Benefits Agreement the coalition says failed to deliver on the jobs promised to the community, and did not replace the parkland displaced when the new stadium was built.

The group will try to recruit more members at a meeting hosted by a South Bronx anti-gun coalition, held at 1 p.m. Nov. 14 at the Betances Community Center in Mott Haven.

“We don’t have the millions,” member Hector Soto said, referring to financing, “but we’re going to have to get the millions of people.”