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After initially thinking that they would rename the 7 Train subway stop in tandem with the new ballpark, the MTA announced that the train stop closest to the Mets' new digs will not carry the name "Citi Field" after the team refused to cough up any money for the station's name change. The station is nearly halfway through a planned $40 million in renovations to go along with the opening of the new stadium and the MTA had hoped to help pay for the work with a portion of the $20 million a year the Mets are receiving in naming rights from Citigroup. The team apparently wasn't eager to spread the wealth however and now the station will simply be renamed "Mets/Willets Point," the nearby LIRR station carrying the same name. On the upside, at least the MTA avoids the possibility of being forced into renaming the station again with no one exactly holding their breath that Citi Field (or as some are calling it, Debits Field) is a moniker that will last through the economic winter.
MTA the First to Officially *Not* Recognize the Name Citi Field
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How about calling the station "$40 Million Renovation Stop"? As a reminder to New York taxpayers about the ridiculous costs of renovating one subway station.
I may be wrong here, but I would assume most of the money is from Citi group and the owners of the Mets? I know the Yanks are flipping the bill for the new Metro-North station in the Bronx.
These train stations should be called whatever the team name is: Mets Terminal. Yankee Stadium Station.
"Mets Terminal" that sounds cool
Except that station is not the last stop on the 7 line and thus not a "terminal". Terminal implies that the train line ends at that station like in Grand Central Terminal.
Anyway, good call by the MTA. The odds that the stadium keeps the name Citi Field for the entire length of the agreement is suspect. How many name changes has the arena in Philadelphia gone through? Or the ball park in San Francisco?
How about Bail-out Ballpark? That should cover it for just about any big American company right now.
baZING!
you went there, man! you went there...
Not naming the station after a landmark or non-geographic entity is wildly inconsistent. What if the Mets are on a road trip? It sounds silly, but it's technically true. And what, no love for the National Tennis Center?
The station should be named "126 St - Flushing Meadows Park" but if they absolutely needed a reference to the sports attractions, maybe "Mets Plaza - Flushing Meadows Park" since the courtyard in front of the new stadium will be named "Mets Plaza" and the Tennis Center is within the Flushing Meadows Park.
This is going to bug me to no end.
uhh, that should be "Not naming the station after a landmark or GEOGRAPHIC entity..."
$40 million to renovate a subway station??? WTF.
Thanks, Unions.
How much could a bunch of porcelain signs cost? This isn't the RFK bridge or something important like that. Or the Avenue of the Americas. How about Joe diMaggio Boulevard? The cheap prick.
Does this mean that all the subway station names are for sale? How much?
I sure hope there will be gold-plated handrails and crystal chandeliers for kind of money.
And just so we're clear: I do not like naming rights. But the fact that I won't have to hear a conductor say "shitty field" makes me very happy. It's a small comfort compared to all the other corporate-named places and events I have to see or read about every day.