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September 19, 2011
Barclays Center Developer ‘Hopeful’ About an Islanders Move to Brooklyn in 2015
NYMag.com
And the idiocy continues...
Barclays Center developer Bruce Ratner yesterday gave his strongest indication yet that he wants the Islanders in the new building, telling Bloomberg Television that he's "hopeful" the Islanders will move in once their Nassau Coliseum lease is up. Said Ratner: "I think it is highly likely there won't be a new arena built in Nassau County with the current state of the economy, so I think there is certainly a chance." (Ratner wouldn't say whether he's actually spoken with the Islanders about a potential move.)
NoLandGrab: You can bet that Ratner would "quietly" say that he'd bring some poor, disadvantaged immigrant youth to the Islanders' first game in Brooklyn, however...
Posted by eric at September 19, 2011 10:50 AM