Willets Point, Queens

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Willets Point, also known locally as the Iron Triangle is a neighborhood of Flushing, in the New York City borough of Queens. It is bounded by Northern Boulevard to the north, 126th Street and Shea Stadium to the west, Roosevelt Avenue to the south and the Flushing River to the east. The IRT 7 Train stops near the southwest corner of the "Triangle", at Roosevelt Avenue at 126 Street near Corona Yard.

The area was named after Willets Point Boulevard (actually a long, wide alley), which diagonally passes through the area to the true Willets Point, the site of Fort Totten near Bayside. The area is very industrial and is filled with auto repair shops, scrap yards, waste processing sites, and similar small businesses. In times of severe rain, flooding is common.

Plans are underway to replace the scrapyards and industrial sites with a mixed commercial and residential development.

Although technically part of Flushing, Willets Point has Corona's ZIP Code (11368).

It was also the location for a proposed stadium for the 2012 Summer Olympics and press center, which would have replaced Shea Stadium and the car junkyards; however, New York City lost its Olympic bid. Nonetheless, a new baseball stadium is planned to be built on a slightly different site for the New York Mets that is to be named Citi Field.