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Posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:04:48 2009 story at NYT.excerpt: March 12, 2009 Stadium Is Citi Field, but the Subway Stop Has Other Ideas By WILLIAM NEUMAN Citigroup is teetering, with a stock price lower than Johan Santana’s earned run average and a brand synonymous with “bank bailout.” But its name will still grace the Mets’ new ballpark, Citi Field, when the season starts next month. The same cannot be said of the subway station at the ballpark’s doorstep. Officials at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority had once hoped that a bit of Citigroup’s $400 million endorsement pact with the Mets might trickle down their way, through a naming rights deal of their own for the station. But those hopes evaporated with the bank’s near-collapse and the Mets’ refusal to share the wealth. So on Tuesday, transit officials informed the Mets that when the subway station (currently named after the team’s former home, the now-demolished Shea Stadium) was rechristened, it would not actually use the name of the new ballpark. Instead, the station, on the No. 7 line, will be called simply Mets/Willets Point. New signs will go up soon replacing the old signs, which say Willets Point/Shea Stadium. The nearby Long Island Rail Road station will be renamed in the same way. “We’re willing, as we have said, to entertain corporate names on stations, but only for a fee,” said Jeremy Soffin, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The authority, struggling to close a $1.2 billion budget gap, plans to raise fares and cut service. The Mets, in contrast, will get $20 million a year from Citigroup for 20 years for the stadium deal. That was the context when transit officials met with the Mets over the last few weeks and, according to Mr. Soffin, raised the subject of a naming fee for the station at Citi Field. The Mets said no. Even if the Mets had been willing to make a deal, it would likely have defrayed only a portion of the $40 million in taxpayer money the authority has agreed to spend on renovations to the subway and commuter rail stations in conjunction with the building of Citi Field. Mr. Soffin said $18 million had been spent so far, on refurbishing the platforms, painting the stations, installing new lights and improving wheelchair access. When it was pointed out that the Mets would still get their name on the renovated stations free, Mr. Soffin said that the authority had to give its riders enough information to get to where they want to go. Mr. Soffin said that the authority never gave the Mets a price for the naming and that the talks did not get past the informal stage. He said that the discussions took place with the Mets rather than Citigroup because the authority dealt regularly with the Mets on the station improvements. Other officials have said that once Citigroup began receiving billions of dollars in federal aid it became clear that any money for the station name would have to come from the Mets. Mr. Soffin said that the decision to keep Citigroup’s name off the station had nothing to do with fears over whether the troubled bank would survive. .... A new Metro-North Railroad station at Yankee Stadium, built with $52 million in authority money and $39 million from the city, will have a slightly different name. It will be called Yankees/E. 153rd Street. |
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Posted by Bill From Maspeth on Wed Mar 11 22:12:38 2009, in response to NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:04:48 2009. Trust me on this one all you NYCT front line employees: there will be a memo saying in effect if some c/r dares to say "CitiField" disciplinary action WILL be taken. |
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Posted by Grand Concourse on Wed Mar 11 22:17:56 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by Bill From Maspeth on Wed Mar 11 22:12:38 2009. Woah, kinda harsh, concidering c/r's had to announce 'Top of the Rock' at 47-50th on 6th Av a while ago. |
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Posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:22:29 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by Grand Concourse on Wed Mar 11 22:17:56 2009. That was via Chairman Kallikow's courtesy to friends in real estate, wasn't it? |
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Posted by Grand Concourse on Wed Mar 11 22:29:17 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:22:29 2009. Maybe. |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Wed Mar 11 22:44:33 2009, in response to NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:04:48 2009. Ah, so it will be Mets - Willets Point, then.They should bite the bullet and add "Boulevard" to the new signs. |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Wed Mar 11 22:51:38 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by G1Ravage on Wed Mar 11 22:44:33 2009. I'd just call it Willets Pointor perhaps Willets Point Boulevard. Mettites will know where to get off, and if you on't know where you get off at, I'm sure someone on SubChat will be happy to telly you where to get off. ROAR |
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Posted by R42 4787 on Wed Mar 11 22:58:56 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by Broadway Lion on Wed Mar 11 22:51:38 2009. To me, the name "Willets Point" has some stigma to it, due to the infamous auto shops and scrap yards. |
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Posted by metropod on Wed Mar 11 23:34:39 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by R42 4787 on Wed Mar 11 22:58:56 2009. that's not the problem. the problem is that's not really Willets Point. the real one had that name supersceded by the name "Fort Totten" |
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Posted by italianstallion on Wed Mar 11 23:53:50 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by metropod on Wed Mar 11 23:34:39 2009. That's why the original name of the station was Willet's Point BLVD. -- that boulevard started there and ran all the way to the geographic feature known as Willet's Point, which is near Ft. Totten.Much of the original boulevard was overbuilt by the Whitestone Parkway (now Expressway). |
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Posted by G1Ravage on Thu Mar 12 00:32:03 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by italianstallion on Wed Mar 11 23:53:50 2009. Yes. Willets Point Boulevard runs generally southwest from Willets Point in Bayside, upon which sits Fort Totten. Willets Point Boulevard turns more westerly west of 149th Street, but then west of Parsons Boulevard, starts to turn more to the south, before ending unceremoniously at the intersection of Union Street and 25th Road. I believe the Whitestone Expressway northbound service road more or less follows the path of the original Willets Point Boulevard. |
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Posted by MATHA531 on Thu Mar 12 00:38:51 2009, in response to NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:04:48 2009. BTW...how much did Brooklyn College pay to have the Flatbush Avenue station renamed Flatbush Avenue/Brooklyn College?Or how much did City College pay to have 137th Street renamed 137 St/City College? It's either spiteful on the part of the MTA (you wouldn't give us a handout) or prudent (how long can the name Citi Field survive)... Personally, I think the later. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 00:45:19 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by MATHA531 on Thu Mar 12 00:38:51 2009. Or how much did City College pay to have 137th Street renamed 137 St/City College?You'll have to ask the IRT of 1904...... 
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Posted by RonInBayside on Thu Mar 12 01:02:32 2009, in response to NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:04:48 2009. Truthfully, when the Mets got their new stadium, a requirement to overhaul the subway stop should have been included in the deal. That subway stadium should be modernized and made ADA compliant, as should the LIRR station. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Mar 12 01:13:44 2009, in response to NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:04:48 2009. The stop is Willets Point Boulevard ... NEXT stop, Main Street Flushing (or 111th Street depending on direction) ... no need to mention that there's a stadium at ALL there then ... See? That was easy. :) |
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Posted by ClearAspect on Thu Mar 12 02:36:50 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by Bill From Maspeth on Wed Mar 11 22:12:38 2009. I call it willets point boulevard when I make my annoucememt were not allowed to say willets point citi field due to mta bylaws reguarding ad libbing though one can't forget 47-50 top of the rock... |
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Posted by WillD on Thu Mar 12 03:29:59 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by ClearAspect on Thu Mar 12 02:36:50 2009. Just out of curiousity did you place all your punctuation at the end of your statement? I'd say you had at least three independent thoughts there, and the three periods in the ellipsis at the end would seem to do more if they were distributed along the length of the post. |
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Posted by MATHA531 on Thu Mar 12 04:08:25 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 00:45:19 2009. Is that original? I'm not sure..... |
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Posted by JBar387 on Thu Mar 12 04:40:22 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by MATHA531 on Thu Mar 12 04:08:25 2009. That is the real restored tablet. |
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Posted by metropod on Thu Mar 12 06:36:36 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Mar 12 01:13:44 2009. so by that logic, Yankee Stadium should just be 161st street/River ave. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 07:29:32 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Mar 12 01:13:44 2009. Well when the majority of the ridership of that station comes there because of that stadium, "something" should say that it's there. I think the solution was a good one, and the most logical. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 07:32:56 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by MATHA531 on Thu Mar 12 04:08:25 2009. That's one of the 1904 Restored tablet-Heins & LaFarge.They were all there until the 1980's "renovation". The tablets are original IRT vintage 1904. The station wasn't "renamed". |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 07:37:13 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by RonInBayside on Thu Mar 12 01:02:32 2009. While I agree, that is definitely a station that needs to be a candidate for that, the subway station doesn't have anything to do with the stadium and visa versa, so it would be hard to include an MTA project into a stadium deal that has nothing to do with the stadium. The ADA requirement does require that a station become so when majorly renovated, but the same isn't reqired for a station when it's a major building near a station. |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Thu Mar 12 08:05:10 2009, in response to NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:04:48 2009. Have to side with the Mets on this one. Why should the Mets pay NYCT anything to name a subway station? Will the Mets get any say over the station's decor or the schedules of the trains? Plus, why should the Mets pay for Citigroup's advertising? To the uninitiated, Citi Field doesn't mean Mets the way Shea Stadium did.Are the Yankees paying for the new MN station naming rights? |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 08:47:34 2009, in response to NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:04:48 2009. Let me get this straight... the Mets were offered the option of paying to have Citibank's name on the station, or getting their own name on the station for free. Wow. |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 08:56:18 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by italianstallion on Wed Mar 11 23:53:50 2009. That's why the original name of the station was Willet's Point BLVD. -- that boulevard started there and ran all the way to the geographic feature known as Willet's Point, which is near Ft. Totten.Much of the original boulevard was overbuilt by the Whitestone Parkway (now Expressway). Avoid the confusion and rename it 126th Street. |
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Posted by znufrii on Thu Mar 12 09:02:23 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:22:29 2009. I had always just assumed that Rockefeller Center had paid for the privilege. |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 09:03:14 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Mar 12 01:13:44 2009. The stop is Willets Point Boulevard ... NEXT stop, Main Street Flushing (or 111th Street depending on direction) ... no need to mention that there's a stadium at ALL there then ... See? That was easy. :)As a comparison, the station at Wrigley Field in Chicago is simply called Addison and the automated announcments call it Addison (although a certain SubChatter overrides them and announces "Addison, Wrigley Field, home of the 200x World Series"). There are Cubs logos on the station signage to identify the presence of the stadium. The Cell's station, on the other hand, is called Sox/35th. The reason for the discrepancy is probably because the Addison station predates the Cubs stadium, but the White Sox were there before the 'L' station. |
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Posted by znufrii on Thu Mar 12 09:07:18 2009, in response to NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by trainsarefun on Wed Mar 11 22:04:48 2009. Ridiculous."“We’re willing, as we have said, to entertain corporate names on stations, but only for a fee,”" Yet they'll put the name of a corporately-owned professional baseball team on the station for free? Doubletalking assmunchers, the lot of 'em. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:39:19 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by znufrii on Thu Mar 12 09:07:18 2009. Again, with the vast majority of that station's passengers coming to that station for that stadium, as they mentioned, they have to have "something" there. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:39:59 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by znufrii on Thu Mar 12 09:02:23 2009. That's what I thought? Why else would they have said that? |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:40:20 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 08:56:18 2009. That's sounds even more confusing!! |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:41:59 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 09:03:14 2009. There are Cubs logos on the station signage to identify the presence of the stadium.But that doesn't help when you are trying to find the stadium on the map. The logos once there would imply that you are already at the station, and knew how to get there. For example, I am planning on coming to Chicago this summer. If I wanted to see a Cubs game, I wouldn't have a clue where to go if just looking at a map. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:45:13 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by Mitch45 on Thu Mar 12 08:05:10 2009. Will the Mets get any say over the station's decor or the schedules of the trains?The el, and the station have been painted in Mets colors for years! Plus, why should the Mets pay for Citigroup's advertising? Agreed on that. But these corporate named stadiums do give a catch22. To the uninitiated, Citi Field doesn't mean Mets the way Shea Stadium did. That will soon change. And most people at this point know that Shea Stadium has been demolished. Are the Yankees paying for the new MN station naming rights? No. The Metro North station is going to be called "Yankees/E. 153rd Street". |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:46:14 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 08:47:34 2009. LOL..... |
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Posted by znufrii on Thu Mar 12 09:50:15 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:39:19 2009. I don't have a problem with them using the Mets name on the station. I just don't like the doubletalk of saying you won't accept one corporate name because they won't pay you, while putting another corporate name on there for free. |
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Posted by Tony Clifton on Thu Mar 12 09:51:17 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by Mitch45 on Thu Mar 12 08:05:10 2009. Mitch45:Read the article again. The whole article. You missed a lot. |
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 09:52:25 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:41:59 2009. But that doesn't help when you are trying to find the stadium on the map. The logos once there would imply that you are already at the station, and knew how to get there.For example, I am planning on coming to Chicago this summer. If I wanted to see a Cubs game, I wouldn't have a clue where to go if just looking at a map. It doesn't have to be part of the station name to be on the map. 
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Posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 09:56:51 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:40:20 2009. That's sounds even more confusing!!How so? Every other station on the line east of Queensboro Plaza is named after the intersecting north-south street. |
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Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Thu Mar 12 10:22:25 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 08:47:34 2009. That's what it looks like to me...Man, what a steal :). |
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Posted by Brighton Private on Thu Mar 12 10:53:50 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:41:59 2009. Here, in Washington, we make it even more confusing."Stadium Armory" is where RFK stadium is but the Nationals aren't. If you want to see a baseball game, you need to know that "Navy Yard" is the place to go. Directional signage in the station reads the more generic "Nationals Ballpark" rather than "Nationals Park," perhaps in anticipation of the stadium eventually being renamed. And IIRC, the name of both the IRT and IND stations was for many years just 161st St - River Avenue. "Yankee Stadium" was added to the name later. |
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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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Posted by Mitch45 on Thu Mar 12 11:07:22 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 09:45:13 2009. "The el, and the station have been painted in Mets colors for years!"The Mets colors are orange and blue, which also happen to be the official colors of the City of New York. You forget that the station does not only serve the Mets, but also serves the US Open at Arthur Ashe and Louis Armstrong Stadiums, neither of which have anything to do with the Mets and everything to do with New York City. "That will soon change." Doubt it. In fact, the way things are going, I'm not sure the Citi Field name will be around for long. They should change it to "US Treasury Field." "No. The Metro North station is going to be called "Yankees/E. 153rd Street"." That's even worse than "Mets/Willets Point." What does East 153rd Street have to do with the Yankees? Zip. The Yankees have been identified with East 161st Street and River Avenue for decades. |
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Posted by Brighton Private on Thu Mar 12 11:07:48 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by Brighton Private on Thu Mar 12 11:06:16 2009. And I would add one thing:It would have permitted perfect symmetry with Ebbets Field, in whose image Citifield has been created: The subway stop for Ebbets Field (for most people) was Prospect Park. And it was NEVER named Ebbets Field or "Dodgers." |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 11:13:12 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 09:56:51 2009. How would anyone know that is the stadium station? |
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Posted by Broadway Lion on Thu Mar 12 11:22:54 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by ClearAspect on Thu Mar 12 02:36:50 2009. But IIRC, Top of the Rock PAID MTA for the announcement.If Mets and or Citibank wants to PAY for advertizing, then me thinks they should be allowed to do so. ROAR |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Mar 12 11:35:15 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by Bill From Maspeth on Wed Mar 11 22:12:38 2009. What a joke. The MTA should be ashamed of themselves. |
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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Mar 12 11:37:00 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by Brighton Private on Thu Mar 12 11:06:16 2009. OTOH, one could just as easily argue that the station name should identify the tennis center.That's only a major draw for that stadium two or three weeks out fo the year. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Mar 12 11:39:27 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by SelkirkTMO on Thu Mar 12 01:13:44 2009. What's next, the Mets omitting all mentions of public transit from their website? No signs pointing to the train stations on Citifield grounds? Give me a break. The Mets have absolutley no responsibility to pay the MTA to do their jobs. |
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Posted by Chris R16/R2730 on Thu Mar 12 11:41:16 2009, in response to Re: NY Mets decline to buy naming rights to Willets Pt station, posted by RIPTA42HopeTunnel on Thu Mar 12 09:03:14 2009. How's that possible? The Cubs' ballpark was opened in 1914, the Sox's in 1991. |
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