Mets–Willets Point (IRT Flushing Line)
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Mets–Willets Point
 
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| New York City Subway rapid transit station | |||||||||
Platforms of the Mets–Willets Point station
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| Address | near 126th Street & Roosevelt Avenue Queens, NY 11368 |
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| Borough | Queens | ||||||||
| Locale | Willets Point | ||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°45′16.41″N 73°50′44.09″W / 40.7545583°N 73.8455806°WCoordinates: 40°45′16.41″N 73°50′44.09″W / 40.7545583°N 73.8455806°W | ||||||||
| Division | A (IRT) | ||||||||
| Line | IRT Flushing Line | ||||||||
| Services |
7  (all times) <7> (rush hours until 9:30 p.m., peak direction) |
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| Transit connections |
 NYCT Bus:  Q48 LIRR: Port Washington Branch (at Mets–Willets Point) |
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| Structure | Elevated | ||||||||
| Platforms | 2 side platforms (local) 1 island platform (express & northbound local) cross-platform interchange (northbound only) |
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| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||
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| Opened | May 7, 1927 | ||||||||
| Rebuilt | April 24, 1939 | ||||||||
| Accessible |
 (Northbound side (local) platform only; open only on game days and for special events) |
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| Former/other names | Willets Point Boulevard World's Fair Willets Point–Shea Stadium |
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| Passengers (2015) | 2,120,859  13.1% |
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| Rank | 233 out of 425 | ||||||||
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| Next north |
Flushing–Main Street: 7 <7>
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| Next south |
111th Street (local): 7 Junction Boulevard (express): <7>
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| Next north |
Game days & special events only: Flushing–Main Street: 7
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| Next south |
none; station is not accessible southbound (Game days & special events only: Junction Boulevard: 7 <7>)
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Mets–Willets Point (formerly Willets Point–Shea Stadium) is an express station on the IRT Flushing Line of the New York City Subway. It is served by the 7 train at all times and by the <7> train rush hours in the peak direction or towards Manhattan following most New York Mets baseball games and U.S. Open tennis matches. This station is located in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Willets Point, Queens, on Roosevelt Avenue between 114th and 126th Streets. The station's peak use occurs during Mets games at Citi Field (and at Shea Stadium from 1964 until 2008), located on the north side of the station, and during events at the USTA National Tennis Center, on the south side.
This three-track express station has a layout unique in the system. From compass north to south, it is arranged: southbound side platform, southbound local track, bidirectional express track, island platform, northbound local track, northbound side platform. The Fordham Road station on the IND Concourse Line in the Bronx has a similar layout: a split island platform as well as an unsplit island platform, but the Mets–Willets Point station is the only station in the subway system with this particular setup.
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