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October 18, 2009
Other locales, including Suffolk, want Islanders
Newsday
By Randi F. Marshall and Eden Laikin
Here's more speculation about the hockey Islanders playing in an arena that has no ice rink.
Brooklyn, meanwhile, is much further along in its effort to redevelop the Atlantic Yards area, where officials hope to break ground this year on a new arena and real estate project that would bring the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association to the borough.
Sources with knowledge of the situation say that there have been no conversations between Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner and Lighthouse partners Wang and Rechler. And they say that as designed now, the arena there could not house a National Hockey League team because it doesn't meet NHL regulations.
But that's not deterring Brooklyn borough President Marty Markowitz.
"I know we would welcome them as the Brooklyn Islanders," Markowitz said. "Let's get the Brooklyn Nets playing here. Once an arena is built, all things are then possible."
NoLandGrab: The phrase "redevelop the Atlantic Yards area" is problematic. "Atlantic Yards" is the name of a development, not an area. The proposed project would be in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, and the will be bringing more developer-caused blight than any development to the neighborhood.
Posted by steve at October 18, 2009 8:51 AM