All Entries Tagged With: "Nassau County"
NY ISLANDERS IN BROOKLYN? In Talks with Barclays Center to Play Preseason Game
Is this a preemptive strike? As I first reported on Twitter on Thursday the Islanders are in discussions to host a preseason game next season at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the future home of the NBA’s New Jersey Nets. This is not the first time the Islanders have used another venue to push the [...]
SPECIAL COMMENT: Joe Conte Writes “The Islanders are not done in Nassau County”
Today I lend the HockeyIndependent.com Isles floor to Joe Conte, an activist who has been a firm supporter of the Lighthouse Project, an outspoken critic of the Town of Hempstead… who infamously made Republican boss Joseph “Backroom Deal” Mondello break out his anti-Islanders stance in mere seconds as he shout: “Blow it out your duffel [...]
Backchecking: UPDATED – Bueller…Bueller…Bueller….
See the bottom for the UPDATE…. Can someone tell me what this is? Anyone….. Anyone….. It’s Plan C. Plan C for the Islanders of New York? Anyone…… There is blame to go around — and I will get to it — all of it in all directions. Not a single person will be left [...]
Having A Say, When You Don’t Get One
First things first, I have to confess. When I heard last week that Blue Oyster Cult was going to perform at the referendum rally at the Nassau Coliseum parking lot tomorrow, a few thoughts swirled in my head: Blue Oyster Cult? At the last (and only) rally for a referendum election I ever attended, a [...]
IS IT FEAR & LOATHING ON LONG ISLAND? BD on the August 1st Vote and Endorsement
Editors Note: B.D. Gallof has not been seen since Sunday am, when his pictures from his ipad were uploaded to his Facebook page of him smoking a cigar and drinking a bottle of Whiskey. Late tonight we received an email from him asking us to place this up on the site. It has not been [...]
The Day The Isles Fan Stood Still! Why Fans Seem MIA This Season
Sure it’s early, but it is concerning that the fans haven’t come out as much as they did as opposed to last year. There are several issues and the usual baggage that comes along for the ride as they do in every year for Islanders fans. However, I thought we could take a look at [...]
COMMENTARY: Word-For-Word, Lighthouse Project Starting To Fall Flat
If there is one thing to be seen in this new scuffle over the Lighthouse Project, is that the newest wrinkle to it all has very much splintered the fanbase. We can certainly glean the Lighthouse Project’s own take in one read. Meanwhile wordage of the ToH press release is loose enough to drive truck-wide [...]
BULLSH*T: My Take On Kovalchuk, The Isles & The Insult To The Rebuild
BULLS*T. Wait, don’t get me wrong, I do think Snow’s interest, talk and the chasing is legit. I just don’t buy it. I don’t buy it as a solution, option or a good move. But let’s start at the beginning…. Let’s take a moment to climb inside the structure of Long Island’s rebuild. It [...]
Comeuppance: Charles Wang and NY Met’s Wilpon ARE Talking
Early-morning on a bathroom jaunt, I checked my phone messages, and there is was…Newsday was spoon-fed that Charles Wang has indeed been talking to Wilpon. Of course, you get the obligatory commentor on the site acting like any Isles blogger has this in their side pocket, and did not run errant for days/weeks/months…me questioning THN’s [...]
D’AMATO FINALLY ATTACKS LIGHTHOUSE: Entering The Dirty Endgame
On the LI Herald page is the face of Joe Pesci Alphonse D’Amato, the fierce specter that has been connected to the political frictions of the Lighthouse due to a falling out between he and Charles Wang years ago. Newsday, in their one fair and well-done piece, alluded that the falling out stemmed from Wang’s [...]
LONG ISLAND’S REALLY BAD IDEA: Mangano Pushes A Casino Into The NY Islanders Fray
Back about a year ago, the Nassau County Young Republicans met using the conference space of the office area of Nassau Coliseum. One of the main issues that they discussed was how Long Island was losing tourism dollars to places like Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York City. Addressing this group primarily was Michael Picker, [...]
EXTREME MAKEOVER LONG ISLAND EDITION: Help Nominate Nassau Coliseum
So, I got this note today, as the show is looking to do a home on Long Island. I can think of no better family more deserving of a new home as NY Islander fans. Do you know someone whose home deserves an Extreme Makeover? If so, the producers of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition [...]
BETTMAN WEIGHS IN ON LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT: And Takes Air Out Of Some Tires
In what is streeeeeeeeeetched to a feature in today’s Newsday is a riff off Gary Bettman’s comments from his radio show. Bettman hit on the “Town of Hempstead” with this blistering remark that must be why Newsday threw it in the front of the paper: “I can’t see why the governing bodies on Long Island [...]
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT CHARLIE: (Part 2) Unraveling?
Yesterday, as I have been chasing down Lighthouse Project information that will be hitting the feeder sometime soon, I heard Howie Rose say that he’d be interviewing Charles Wang…about the Lighthouse. Very timely, since there were rumblings that Lighthouse News was imminent, per sources. “Ahh, Charlie is trying to head them off at the pass,” [...]
NASSAU COUNTY FOLLIES: Something Rotten Going On?
Though we all are probably hopeful on the new Nassau County Executive, Ed Mangaro, as he now takes office, there are some reasons to be concerned, Rhetoric, Firings & Censorship: Once Mangano won, rhetoric heated up on the Town of Hempstead side of the aisle. Smelling blood like a UFC fighter, they started talking smack [...]
NEW (SUB) LEASE ON LIFE – Islanders Amend Lease At Nassau Coliseum
Howdy, I’m pinch-hitting for the Florida bound bastard blogger, B.D. – hope everyone had a Happy Festivus. Late last night, news broke (from behind a paywall) about a new lease agreement that could give the Islanders control over parking, concession, and other revenues from Nassau Coliseum. B.D. and I got wind of this earlier in [...]
SPECIAL REPORT: LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT at STOP?
Two stellar sources have gotten back to me on the status of the Lighthouse Project in Nassau County. Source #1 Confirms that the Lighthouse Project has indeed stopped paying FP Clark. LHP owes FP Clark over $200K. FP Clark and the Town are still waiting for more backup for the LHP’s claim that the project [...]
Lighthouse: Time For The New Nassau Exec To Step Up
Interesting reaction from this weekend as Nick Giglia broke on his site: LetThereBeLight(house) about the developers lining new Nassau Executive, Edward Mangano’s coffers once he won the election. No, there were other Brooklyn rumors just yet. Instead, curiously, was a few tweets and a garbled article behind the Newsday’s pay-wall about how Mangano is surrounding [...]
SPECIAL REPORT: Lighthouse Project Stops Payments to FP Clark
Maybe the Brooklyn contingent is right. In a special exclusive, a highly placed source has told us that the Lighthouse Project has stopped paying FP Clark (again). Now is this oversight? Or another payment snafu like the last time? Last time there was a giant issue between the two as FP Clark never told the [...]
Sadly, Very Little Enlightenment on the Lighthouse
Hey, did you know Brooklyn is in play? Hey, would that be an E4 or E5??? No Eklund is not expounding on the Lighthouse with his rumor system. Instead, it is the kind of flotsam and jetsam that is making the rounds. However, someone better tell Brooklyn who is set to break ground with an architectural plan [...]