- Address: 123-01 Roosevelt Avenue, Flushing, N.Y. 11368-1699
- Team: New York Mets
- Type: Open-air
- Surface: Grass
- Architect: Praeger-Kavanaugh-Waterbury
- Owned by: City of New York
- Opened in: 1964
- Cost: $25.5 million
- Capacity: 55,601
- Outfield dimensions: 338 feet down left-field line, 378 left-center, 410 center, 378 right-center, 338 right-field line
- Distringuishing characteristic: The home run apple that flashes in right-center after a Mets home run.
A general view of Shea Stadium taken before the home opener between the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies on April 9, 2007 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City.
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