More Yankees than Mets fans in Queens

East side, West side, everybody’s coming down, to meet the …Y-A-N-K-S?
Two separate polls recently found there to be a preponderance of Yankee fans across the borough the Mets call home.
Forty-five percent of baseball fans name the Yankees as their favorite team, against 37 percent who root, root, root for the home team – the Mets, according to a Quinnipiac University poll.
Throughout the city the gap is even wider; just 26 percent of fans’ favorite team is the Mets, while 59 percent root for the 27-time World Series Champs.
“How can Queens fans pick the Bronx Bombers over the Amazins?” asked Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute
A simple explanation lies in the recent success of the Bronx Bombers who have reached the playoffs 15 of the past 16 years, winning five World Series over that span. During that time the Metropolitans have played into October just three times, losing to their cross-town rivals in their only Fall Classic appearance.
The transit direction site, HopStop, came to similar conclusions by studying the amount of users searching for directions to the respective stadiums.
In their study HopStop found that Queens residents searched for directions to Yankee Stadium 56 percent of the time, versus just 44 percent of the time to Citi Field.
The fact that the Yankees outdraw the Mets 44,626 to 30,921 could result in more searches – as well as the fact that residents of Queens may already know how to get to Citi Field, thus not having to log on for directions. Residents of the Bronx though still searched for directions to Yankee Stadium more than to Citi Field.
Breaking down the borough into 38 neighborhoods with enough searches to be significantly relevant, HopStop found Queens has 29 “Yankee neighborhoods” versus just nine “Met neighborhoods.” The bastions of Met fandom in Queens include: Pomonok, Arverne-Edgemere, Cambria Heights, Far Rockaway, Ridgewood, Woodhaven, Woodside, Kew Gardens Hills and Middle Village.
The fickle nature of sports can quickly turn these numbers around. While the Yankees boast a history filled with success, a postseason dry spell would see their grip on the city’s fans loosen. Fair-weather fans traditionally hop on the bandwagon of a winner.
For each of the past 18 years the Yankees have outdrawn the Mets, but prior to that though, Shea Stadium packed in more fans than Yankee Stadium each year between 1984 and 1993 – which coincided with a run of Met success that included the 1986 World Series.
Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,528 New York City adults from July19-25. HopStop studied searches going to either stadium between March 31 and June 26.