An annual favorite post…remember, the Mets Police encourage you to re-invest your savings in the Metsconomy, preferably by picking up a nice blue Mets cap in the 47 shop at Citi Field. (And don’t forget to see if you can still pick up a $35 seat in the 100’s for the opener via Mets Police tickets)
I’m cheap. I park in Corona. It’s not scary and it’s not far.
Park somewhere in the one-teens as close to 34th avenue as you can.
This shot is from 114th street between 34th and Northern. Remember, the far side of Citi Field is 126th, so at the worst you’re walking 12 blocks and it’s more like nine.
At the end of 34th avenue look for this walkway. The people on the opposite side are waiting for highway-speed traffic to clear. You do have to hustle across an entrance ramp to the Grand Central but it’s not that scary.
Now that you’ve dashed across, you will find yourself on this walkway along the Whitestone Expressway. It’s loud, but that’s a nice high barrier so you are in no likely danger of being hit by a car.
To your right you can enjoy the beautiful wildflowers of Queens, or if the sanitation department is paying as much attention as they did in 2010 you will see discarded electronic remnants and broken shopping carts.
Keep walking, keep walking.
Keep walking, keep walking.
You can look down at the Grand Central Parkway.
From here you can follow your eyes.
The walkway ends and you will have to cross across an exit ramp (from the GCP to the Whitestone). On the other side is the Citi Field parking lot.
The NYPD is often stationed at this point and will hold up traffic for you, otherwise you’ll have to play Freeway against highway speed traffic. Not so bad.
Now that you’ve made it safely walk down this sidewalk. Again, you can see Citi Field so it’s not like you’ll get lost.
Parking has gone up since I took this photo, but take a minute to laugh about the people who paid $19 (I guess) while you got 7 blocks worth of exercise.
This is what their $18 got them in 2009. After the game you’ll be over by the highway entrances and they’ll be fighting 20,000 other people to get out of the lot.
And you’ve made it!
If you can’t make it from here you need greater help than I can provide.
dang. memories of when my grand father would slip the gas station attendant at the mobil gas station on 112th street and astoria blvd a 5 spot nad we would walk the over pass to shea.is that gas station and my little legaue field at the free way entrance still there ?
Thanks for the valuable information!
Damnit Shannon. Stop blowing up this area. It’s becoming hard enough to park there. You did this last year too.
I park near the Hall of Science and stop in at this great little bodega and get sandwiches before the game. The money I save on parking is put into the local economy. The guys who run that bodega are friendly and their sandwiches bury anything you can get in Citi-Field. I get a full hero and a soda for under $5 + the free parking. Can’t beat that, can ya ?