Willets Point/Mets (Shea Stadium) (IRT Flushing Line)
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Willets Point/Mets (Shea Stadium) Station · Opened 5/7/1927Willets Point/Shea Stadium is next. The
station at this location was built new for the 1939 World's Fair,
replacing the former Willets Point Blvd. station which had been
slightly further east (toward Main St.) at a position closer to
Flushing Creek. The new station was built to accommodate crowds bound
for the World's Fair, held twice on the site in Flushing Meadows south
of the elevated track, and more frequently for events at the
U.S. Tennis Center on the south side and baseball games at Shea
Stadium on the north side of the tracks.
The platform arrangement at Willets Point is unique in
the system, arranged in this manner: north side platform,
Manhattan-bound local track, bidirectional express track, island
platform, Queens-bound local track, south side platform. Trains to
Main Street open up on the island platform; the south wall platform
was used for the 1964-1965 World's Fair special trains and during
events at the U.S. Tennis Center. Local trains to Manhattan use the
north side platform. Express trains use the island platform in each
direction.
The platform ends have no windscreen protection giving a
postcard view of Shea Stadium, the U.S. Tennis Center, and the
Unisphere, left over from the 1964 World's Fair. Underneath the
platforms, the station has a full-length wooden mezzanine. There are
stairs and a ramp between the mezzanine and the north side platform
for crowds heading back to Manhattan. A ramp provides access from the
mezzanine to the Shea Stadium parking lots. On the south side, there
are ramps connecting the mezzanine and south side wall platform to a
foot bridge to the World's Fairgrounds. The foot bridge crosses over
a subway yard and a set of LIRR tracks.
 Corona
Yard
New York's World's
Fairs
Selected Images
(image 27172) (197k, 1044x701)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Flushing Line
Location: Willets Point/Mets (Shea Stadium)
Route: 7
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 1981
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 11/3/2003
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(image 27171) (193k, 1044x701)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Flushing Line
Location: Willets Point/Mets (Shea Stadium)
Route: 7
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2065
Photo by: David Pirmann
Date: 11/3/2003
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(image 27210) (112k, 775x561)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Flushing Line
Location: Willets Point/Mets (Shea Stadium)
Route: 7
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 2127
Photo by: Gary Chatterton
Date: 10/28/2003
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(image 6035) (61k, 640x480)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Flushing Line
Location: Willets Point/Mets (Shea Stadium)
Route: 7
Car: R62A (Bombardier, 1984-1987) 1716
Photo by: Salaam Allah
Date: 9/26/2002
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(image 4317) (61k, 640x480)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Flushing Line
Location: Willets Point/Mets (Shea Stadium)
Route: 7
Car: R36-WF 9681
Photo by: Salaam Allah
Date: 9/21/2002
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(image 7380) (60k, 640x480)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Flushing Line
Location: Willets Point/Mets (Shea Stadium)
Car: Locomotive R77 899
Photo by: Salaam Allah
Date: 9/21/2002
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(image 4267) (177k, 1044x703)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Flushing Line
Location: Willets Point/Mets (Shea Stadium)
Route: 7
Car: R36-WF 9636
Collection of: David Pirmann
Date: 5/10/1964
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(image 11053) (68k, 714x494)
Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Line: IRT Flushing Line
Location: Willets Point/Mets (Shea Stadium)
Photo by: Kevin Wong
Date: 5/29/2003
Notes: Station entrance.
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