Wow, thanks for the on scene insights. It appears that they did get a late surge in season ticket sales. They are like 4th in the league in that dept presently.
Villa was really good. Diskerud is also really good. I read a stat somewhere that Diskerud has more touches, more passes attempted and more passes completed than any other player. Kind of impressive. That Khiry Shelton was really impressive for NYC FC as well.
Also, the Revs are an average to terrible team without Jermaine Jones. I think they only lost one game when he played with them last year. When I saw them in person, he did it all. He told the keeper where to kick the ball, he set up the set pieces he talked to the ref, he may have even reffed the game as well. He is the boss.
As for the seats. Those bad seats will get progressively emptier as time goes by. If any of those season tickets were in the bad areas then they won't get renewed next season. Having watched baseball stadium soccer before, but in a much smaller minor league stadium where I could sit lower, there are times when you don't even feel like you are in the same stadium as the game because the action is so far away. I think as time goes by, attendance will normalize to 15-20,000 a game which might help with concessions.
That halftime rush is an issue even in the well thought out soccer specific stadiums. It's almost like the people that run the stadiums relearn this every season.
I hope you do continue to go to games at either place. After a winter of watching EPL and Europe stuff I love watching a live game in person again. Plus you could probably get season tickets for the Red Bulls for next nothing right now