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Mets–Willets Point station (IRT Flushing Line)

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The Mets–Willets Point station

• ... that the Willets Point Boulevard station went from serving about 66,000 passengers per year in 1930 to over 110,000 passengers on a single day in 1939? Source: "Queens Growth Reflected by Fare Figures: Well Known Transit Points in Borough Have Been Displaced by Others Flushing Leading Center 10,071,912 Persons Used Main Street Last Year". New York Herald Tribune. February 8, 1931. p. E2; "278,000, First Day, Used Transit Lines; Commission Figures, However, Do Not Include Travel to the Fair After 7 P.M." The New York Times. May 2, 1939
  • ALT1: ... that the Willets Point Boulevard station went from serving 66,042 passengers per year in 1930 to 110,689 passengers on a single day in 1939? Source: "Queens Growth Reflected by Fare Figures: Well Known Transit Points in Borough Have Been Displaced by Others Flushing Leading Center 10,071,912 Persons Used Main Street Last Year". New York Herald Tribune. February 8, 1931. p. E2; "278,000, First Day, Used Transit Lines; Commission Figures, However, Do Not Include Travel to the Fair After 7 P.M." The New York Times. May 2, 1939
  • ALT2: ... that despite having been enlarged for the 1939 New York World's Fair, the Willets Point Boulevard station served "practically no resident population" by 1949? Source: "Flushing Bus Terminal May Be Transferred". Daily News. December 26, 1949. p. 406.
  • ALT3: ... that the Mets–Willets Point station is only wheelchair-accessible during sports games and special events? Source: "Accessibility at the Mets-Willets Point subway station". PCAC. June 21, 2009
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/James Freeman (clergyman)
  • Comment: If anyone has more hook ideas, these would be much appreciated.

Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 13:56, 15 February 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Mets–Willets Point station (IRT Flushing Line); consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New Enough: Y Long Enough: Y

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Y Neutral: Y Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing: Y

Hook eligibility:

• Cited: N - just a concern
• Interesting: Y

QPQ: Done.

Overall: @Epicgenius: Good article. Though, the source for alt3 doesn't explicitly state that it opens on Mets games. Though, it does say game days and I'm not knowledgeable on baseball so maybe I'm wrong. Onegreatjoke (talk) 20:27, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

@Onegreatjoke: Thanks for the review. I have changed ALT3 to just "sports games" - to be honest, I think the platform in question might operate during the US Open as well. Epicgenius (talk) 21:44, 15 February 2023 (UTC)

better. Onegreatjoke (talk) 21:45, 15 February 2023 (UTC)