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October 17, 2009
Not Seeing the Light
Long Island Exchange
By Joe Pietaro
Recent reports have hockey New York Islanders owner Charles Wang abandoning his plan to build the Lighthouse development on Long Island. This would result in the Islanders looking for a new venue. This item repeats the possibility of having the Islanders play at the arena for the proposed Atlantic Yards project, even though the arena would not be large enough for hockey.
The Atlantic Yards project may be a pipedream, but until it is dead and buried there is still a possibility it will be erected. Perhaps the Nets arena will look more attractive if there is a hockey team in place to join them. How ironic would that be? When the Coliseum was first built for the Islanders, the Nets were the redheaded stepchildren playing second banana.
NoLandGrab: "Pipedream" does not correctly describe the proposed Atlantic Yards project. If nobody has yet coined "pipenightmare," consider it done.
Posted by steve at October 17, 2009 6:56 AM