NHL won't let them play there because it doesn't meet the league's minimum stadium capacity
edit: think it needs to be 15,000 and the Coliseum is at 13,000 for hockey
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edit: think it needs to be 15,000 and the Coliseum is at 13,000 for hockey
that explains it i compared the two venues and barclays is just over 15K+ ....i then question if barclays gets filled up for islander games to even close to the 15K
Which is why our focus should be on spending some really money on private land. Less red tape.
Beat me to it.
http://www.newsday.com/business/li-...o-amazon-as-hq-sites-1.14294700?firstfree=yes
Local elected officials want Amazon to build a HQ there. Proposals to Amazon due Oct 19th. Who's calendaring all of this?
Sucks for the Isles (and us, if we actually wanted Belmont) IMO. Why wouldn't you give it to a billion $ company that will be giving employment to thousands
I'm hearing Bayonne NJ along with the state have made a very attractive offer to Amazon. Better situated to NYC than Belmont too.
Also heard that county officials in Rockland are pushing the 122-acre closed campus of Novartis in Suffern to Amazon.
Either way, better Amazon in Belmont than us.
DYK Amazon has basically an entire office building leased in midtown simply to serve as a delivery hub? That's nuts.
I used to walk past one of their buildings on 35th street, not too far from the Third Rail's pub Playwright. No matter the time of day there were always guys in the amazon vests loading up vans for deliveries everywhere.
I was thinking Belmont would be good for Amazon as it's near two airports for when the execs from their main HQ come in to town, but Bayonne is a good choice too - guess it depends if they need to be close to NYC or not
"The announcement came the same day the New York Islanders said they have submitted a proposal to create a sports and entertainment destination at Belmont Park, which is owned by the state. At least two other proposals for the property were submitted by the state’s 2 p.m. Thursday deadline."
Do we know what the other proposal was? So there's Nassau for Amazon, Islanders, NYCFC, and ???
Do you drive? Do you know what 7 miles past Citi Field is? Getting to Mets games is fairly painless. Getting to JFK or anywhere in that corridor is just stupid.
So you enjoy skiing more than NYCFC? That's what this tells me.
The difference is that in the northeast we might get 3 months of good skiing in a year. Factor in busy weekends and I might get 12-15 days of skiing in during a good (snowy/cold) season. Compare that to the MLS season which is March-Oct/November. You gotta get your skiing in any way you can. If that means waking up before dawn and spending 7 hours in a car, you do it.
(This comes from an obsessed skier so my opinions probably aren't the norm)
