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Shea Stadium (/ ʃ eɪ / SHAY), formally known as William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, New York City. [7] Opened in 1964, it was home to the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1964 to 2008 , as well as the New York Jets of the American Football League (AFL) and ...
Since the 1990s, the Mets were looking to replace Shea Stadium. It had originally been built as a multi-purpose stadium in 1964. While it had been retrofitted as a baseball-only stadium after the NFL's New York Jets left for Giants Stadium after the 1983 season, it was still not optimal for baseball, with seating located farther away from the playing field compared to other major league ...
The ballpark then sat largely vacant for nearly three years, until the newly formed Titans of New York (present-day New York Jets) began play in 1960, followed by the newly formed Mets in 1962, using the Polo Grounds as an interim home while Shea Stadium was being built. As a 1962 baseball magazine noted, "The Mets will have to play in the Polo ...
The facility is the largest recreation complex in any New York City park, at 110,000 square feet (10,000 m 2). [134] This was followed by the opening of Citi Field, a new baseball field to replace Shea Stadium, in 2009. [135] Another public-private partnership, the Alliance for Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, was created in 2015. [136]
Arthur Ashe Stadium is a tennis arena at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York City.Part of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, it is the main stadium of the US Open tennis tournament and has a capacity of 23,771, making it the largest tennis stadium in the world.
Stray cats have run amok in Willets Point for nearly 100 years and even carved out shelter in Shea Stadium when it was erected in 1964 — with one famously scampering across the Cubs dugout ...
The 1968 AFL Championship Game was the ninth annual title game of the American Football League, played on December 29 at Shea Stadium in Queens, New York City, New York.In a rematch of the notorious Heidi Game played earlier in the season, the New York Jets (11–3) of the Eastern Division hosted the defending champion Oakland Raiders (12–2) of the Western Division.
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