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Post by JohnM on Nov 17, 2021 21:08:25 GMT -5
Opens Saturday night
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Post by Yankin'It in Beantown on Nov 18, 2021 9:07:22 GMT -5
Holy crappers,that looks swanky. The old digs in Nassau were such a dump but the memories.....
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Post by JohnM on Nov 18, 2021 11:21:59 GMT -5
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Post by JohnM on Nov 18, 2021 11:24:15 GMT -5
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Post by JohnM on Nov 18, 2021 12:04:59 GMT -5
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Post by JohnM on Nov 19, 2021 7:43:30 GMT -5
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Post by Yankin'It in Beantown on Nov 19, 2021 9:11:04 GMT -5
Similar to the old one, surrounding facilities look minimal. At the old Nassau Coliseum we would get there early and go next door to the average at best sports bar in the Marriott. Have a couple flat kind of warm Bud Lites and a greasy grisly cheesesteak with limp french fries and generic ketchup washed down with some godawful shot of well whisky to get the blood flowing. And we loved it.
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Post by JohnM on Nov 19, 2021 9:36:11 GMT -5
Modern arenas you don’t need any outside amenities. Place loaded with eating and drinking establishments. Usually setup so that you can go to them before the arena gates open.
Went to Amalie arena with Sue and Knux in Tampa. That’s how it was setup. Places were mobbed with fans before the gates opened.
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Post by JohnM on Nov 19, 2021 9:37:42 GMT -5
Similar to the old one, surrounding facilities look minimal. At the old Nassau Coliseum we would get there early and go next door to the average at best sports bar in the Marriott. Have a couple flat kind of warm Bud Lites and a greasy grisly cheesesteak with limp french fries and generic ketchup washed down with some godawful shot of well whisky to get the blood flowing. And we loved it. Food Courts at MSG are fantastic.
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Post by Yankin'It in Beantown on Nov 19, 2021 9:44:12 GMT -5
Similar to the old one, surrounding facilities look minimal. At the old Nassau Coliseum we would get there early and go next door to the average at best sports bar in the Marriott. Have a couple flat kind of warm Bud Lites and a greasy grisly cheesesteak with limp french fries and generic ketchup washed down with some godawful shot of well whisky to get the blood flowing. And we loved it. Food Courts at MSG are fantastic. You are channeling the old JohnM. The new JohnM has a turkey sandwich and an apple beforehand. :-)
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Post by JohnM on Nov 19, 2021 10:05:49 GMT -5
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Post by JohnM on Nov 19, 2021 10:06:24 GMT -5
Food Courts at MSG are fantastic. You are channeling the old JohnM. The new JohnM has a turkey sandwich and an apple beforehand. :-) I don’t eat Turkey, Chicken or Fish.
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Post by JohnM on Nov 20, 2021 3:44:58 GMT -5
NY Post
On Saturday night, 17,250 fans will file into the new building right next to Belmont Park. They will see wide concourses and good sightlines; outdoor terraces and bars; a great hall with murals on either side. A building just as tall as Nassau Coliseum, designed to replicate the noise of old with amenities of new. And it will all be theirs.
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Post by JohnM on Nov 20, 2021 5:00:16 GMT -5
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Post by JohnM on Nov 23, 2021 9:04:02 GMT -5
Trains to new Islanders arena are empty of fans, full of sadness access_timeNovember 23, 2021 personNeil deMause I almost headed out to the new New York Islanders arena for the team’s first two home games last weekend to see how the Rube Goldbergesque temporary train travel situation was, while everyone waits for the full completion of a new $105 million station for the arena, about 40% of which will be paid for by state taxpayers. But, you know, that would have required leaving the house, so instead I did the 21st-century journalist thing of just looking at Twitter — and at least there, people are not happy.
Much of the reporting comes from the Long Island commuting site The LIRR Today, which started by doing headcounts of how many people were riding trains in the vicinity (QVG is Queens Village, the stop where riders from Long Island need to get off and take a shuttle bus while waiting for the new Elmont station to be open in both directions):
Yep, that’s not much. In a longer web post, The LIRR Today reports that “on both nights, ridership was only about 5% of the 17,255 fans in attendance,” so clearly pretty much everyone was driving to the games, either because they didn’t want to deal with shuttle buses or just because they would rather drive. The state’s environmental impact study “projected potential adverse traffic impacts” if anything less than 12% of fans took the train, and a further study projected that once the Elmont station was open, “24% of attendees would take the LIRR for a Saturday game and 30% for a weekday game.” So clearly there’s a ways to go there.
As for those who took the train, things did not always go well for them:
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