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William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, usually shortened to Shea Stadium or just Shea, was a stadium located in the New York City borough of Queens, in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. It was the home baseball park of Major League Baseball’s New York Mets from 1964 to 2008. Originally built as a multi-purpose stadium, Shea was also the home of the National Football League’s New York Jets until 1983. It is currently being demolished to furnish additional parking for the adjacent Citi Field, under construction to replace Shea in 2009.
Capacity 55,601 Opened April 17th 1964 Owner City of New York Cost $28.5 million Architect Praeger-Kavanaugh-Waterbury Shea Stadium is currently being dismantled, rather than imploded, in accordance with New York State law, and stadium fragments and memorabilia are being sold to fans. The seats were the first ($869 per pair plus tax, a combination of ’86 & ’69), followed by other memorabilia such as the foul poles, dugouts and other equipment.
After salvaging operations concluded, actual demolition of the ballpark began on October 14, 2008.
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