The Michael Jackson trail interests me like not at all except for the fact that today’s editions of the Daily News and the Post share the same quippy headline: “Boy, Oh Boy” (the Post adds a comma: “Boy, Oh, Boy”)! How often does this happen?

(Note: Apparently it happened after both the Mets and Yankees made the World Series in 2000, marking the return of the Subway Series — the Daily News, the Post and Newsday used “All Aboard” — though I still think “Boy, Oh Boy” is a bigger feat!)

If plans for an Olympic stadium in Flushing Meadows move forward, the auto parts haven in Willets Point will be threatened, the Daily News reports:

Just east of Shea Stadium’s parking lots sits the Iron Triangle, a wild tangle of car repair shops in nearby Willets Point, Queens.

For decades, urban planners have plotted to eliminate the madcap bazaar of garages and junkyards that smells of anti-freeze and motor oil and looks like a Third World slum.

With a new Shea Stadium planned for the Mets and possibly the 2012 Olympics, the Iron Triangle’s fate is uncertain. But the owners of the body, glass, muffler and radiator shops - which employ untold hundreds of people - fear the worst.

Expanding on the third world theme, the paper notes that fixing up the area will be a monumental task:

Cleaning up the area will take work. The streets are rocky and flooded, the curbs don’t exist and the potholes are full of lug nuts and shattered glass - all within sight of Shea’s upper deck.

“The soil is so contaminated here, they’d have to go 15 feet down to get out all the oil,” said Billy Kalatzis, 54, who has owned a repair shop on Willets Point Blvd. for 15 years.

And displacing auto parts businesses won’t fix the existential conundrum that Queens exists because we all need it there:

Drivers flock to the ramshackle streets for secondhand parts and cheap repairs.

“It’s kind of unfair just to get rid of all of them,” said Kenneth Inniss, 44, of East Elmhurst, who was getting his air conditioner fixed yesterday.

“I have no idea what they’ll do to us,” said Ajray Kshora, 29, who runs a small tire shop. “If they want to take my business, then what am I supposed to do? Where would I go?”

He’d probably relocate to the Bronx!

After Hizzoner announced that the “first best choice” for an Olympic stadium didn’t work out, Queens boosters feel stung by the slight:

In the end, there is always Queens.

When no one else wanted power plants, Astoria said yes, and it now provides 60 percent of the city’s energy. When Manhattan banned graveyards, Queens became the Borough of Cemeteries. When no one else wanted airplanes buzzing overhead, New York built an airport in Flushing. Then it built another in Jamaica.

When New York wanted a World’s Fair, the city spent 50 years, from 1889 to 1939, holding out for a location in Manhattan, without success. Finally, the city settled on Flushing Meadows and won the fair, which returned in 1964.

And so yesterday, a day after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg announced that Queens would be the fallback site for the city’s Olympics bid - his Manhattan dream having crashed and burned - few people in the Borough of Fallbacks were shocked. Once again, New York’s utility borough would pick up after Manhattan, repairing what needed to be fixed, bearing the burden of the city’s, and the nation’s, Olympic hopes for 2012.

“They can’t live without Queens,” said Gene Carballo, a retired sanitation worker who was playing cards yesterday at an Italian men’s club in Corona. “The mayor wants it over there. He can’t get it over there, so Queens is his second choice.”