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On March 16, 1961 — 59 years ago today — the state of New York approved a bond issue for the construction of a 55,000-seat stadium on the site of the 1939-40 World's Fair in Queens, in an area called Flushing Meadows. It was the same site that the city offered Walter O'Malley and the Brooklyn Dodgers to build a new stadium in an effort to keep them from moving the west coast a few years before. William Shea was a lawyer.
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