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Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station |
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Posted by Brighton Private on Thu Mar 12 11:06:16 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by znufrii on Thu Mar 12 09:50:15 2009. There is a difference between identifying the station with the Mets -- which are the attraction for most people going to the station -- and Citibank/Citifield, whose only relation to the station is their payment of a sponsorship fee to the Mets.The designation can be justified on the basis of public utility alone. OTOH, one could just as easily argue that the station name should identify the tennis center. Willets Point, for reasons other posters have identified, is a geographical misnomer, and Willets Pt. Blvd. is an irrelevancy because the street has been mostly paved over. The ideal and most inclusive station name, IMHO, would have been Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The name "Flushing Meadows" is closely associated with the Mets, the tennis stadium, and the park itself. But, alas, no one asked me. |
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