Shea Stadium

William A. Shea Municipal Stadium, typically shortened to Shea Stadium, was a multi-purpose stadium in in , .
Wikipedia
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  • Type: defunct sports venue
  • Description: 1964-2009 sports stadium in Queens, New York, USA
  • Also known as: “Shea Stadium Station”, “Shea-Stadion”, “Sheastadion”, “Stade Shea”, “Stadiono Shea”, “William A. Shea Municipal Stadium”, “שיי סטדיום”, “シェイスタジアム”, and “謝伊體育場”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mets–Willets Point station and Arthur Ashe Stadium.

Railway station
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Mets–Willets Point is a station on the Long Island Rail Road's Port Washington Branch in , , . Prior to 2021, the station was normally open only during New York Mets home games, the U.S.

Stadium
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is a retractable roof tennis arena at in , New York City. Part of the , 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. is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Shea Stadium.

Sports venue
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The is a stadium complex within in , New York City. It has been the home of the US Open Grand Slam tennis tournament, played every year from late August to early September, since 1978 and is operated by the United States Tennis Association. is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Shea Stadium.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Corona and East Elmhurst.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the borough of in . It borders and to the east, Jackson Heights and to the west, and Rego Park to the south, and to the north.

Neighborhood
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is a residential neighborhood in the northwest section of the borough of . It is bounded to the south by Jackson Heights and , to the north and east by , and to the west by and Ditmars Steinway.

Neighborhood
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is a 4,605-apartment development in the southernmost region of and the easternmost part of , a neighborhood in the borough of .

Shea Stadium

Latitude
40.75222° or 40° 45′ 8″ north
Longitude
-73.84389° or 73° 50′ 38″ west
Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q524+VC
Geo­Names ID
6352910
Wiki­data ID
Q1056326
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Shea Stadium” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Shea Stadium”
  • Catalan: “Estadi Shea”
  • Cebuano: “Shea Stadium”
  • Chinese: “謝亞球場”
  • Chinese: “谢亚球场”
  • Czech: “Shea Stadium”
  • Danish: “Shea Stadium”
  • Dutch: “Shea Stadium”
  • Esperanto: “Shea Stadium”
  • Finnish: “Shea-stadion”
  • French: “Shea Stadium”
  • German: “Shea Stadium”
  • Greek: “Στάδιο Σέι”
  • Hebrew: “אצטדיון שיי”
  • Italian: “Shea Stadium”
  • Japanese: “シェイ・スタジアム”
  • Korean: “셰이 스타디움”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shea Stadium”
  • Norwegian: “Shea Stadium”
  • Polish: “Shea Stadium”
  • Portuguese: “Shea Stadium”
  • Slovak: “Shea Stadium”
  • Spanish: “Shea Stadium”
  • Swedish: “Shea Stadium”

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