Comments on: TURN DOWN THE LIGHTS: Murray and consultants will tell Lighthouse developers what they can build

By: RD

RD — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:13:01 +0000

Make a deal somewhere already! Do it now. Our team will be great by the time the team moves into some new arena 2 or 3 years from now.

By: Mike from Philly

Mike from Philly — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:39:43 +0000

Islanders and Mets in Queens or the Islanders and Nets in Brooklyn. Either one sounds much better then the Islanders and nothing but a dump in Uniondale. Cut your losses Wang and get out of there.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:23:50 +0000

A pox on both their houses. Leave the dump of the Coliseum behind and have the county spend the money tearing it down. And sell the team to someone who will make a hockey club out of it, whether that person be in Hamilton, Kansas City or Saskatoon. It’s a damn shame what has happened to this once-proud team, but everything Wang has done with this team has been wrong.

By: OA PEST

OA PEST — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:49:45 +0000

Wow now everybody has stopped drinking the kool-aid and seeing what type schyster the “savior” has been. How this guy skipped going to jail with Sanjay Kumar is beyond me.

By: JP

JP — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:29:11 +0000

I hated Kate Murray and the TOH for playing this game. Now I feel vindicated reading it was WANG all along. I said it before and I say it again, he wanted the team for the lighthouse and now everyone sees the truth

By: Sidd Finch

Sidd Finch — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:47:09 +0000

Hey Bob:

As an owner, you own the Yankees, the Cowboys, etc for the love of the game. For most of the other teams, its all about business. Its about making money. You need the ancillary stuff to make a difference and the colisuem has one of the $hittiest deals going for the tenant. One of the earlier posters also noted turning the Colisuem into a minor league operation. What are you talking about, it already is? Mr Wang is making every effort to bring the coliseum, the islanders and NC into the 21st century. TOH, NC and the GOP seem to have other plans. Mangano’s election just re-confirmed that its back to business as usual in NC. While Suozzi look to the future and the way to deal with things as we get there, the GOP dreams about the past and promises to take us their without any vision. And what about Schmitt’s raise? Maybe if we generated a little tax revenue off of LHP, the raise could have been justified. A$$ES.

By: Imetbossy

Imetbossy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:15:54 +0000

TAKE A WALK WANG !!

By: Chris A

Chris A — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:15:51 +0000

I could see what Murray is trying to get at, mainly she doesn’t want a massive hub pop up in the middle of her town. However something like this has far more benefits than risks and it’s imperative that she does her part because like it or not Nassau and W. Suffolk will be more like NYC in the future so a retail and entertainment hotspot will be fruitful for the next generation

By: ERIKA TENCIC

ERIKA TENCIC — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:04:48 +0000

#115, right on the money. Why all the meetings with thousands saying yes-yes–yes. Then everything goes black. Who is listening to us! These pols work for us! Class action law suit, Who’s in?

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:01:40 +0000

Anyone who thinks Wang is in it for his love of Long Island and the Islanders is sadly mistaken. He’s in it for the money, and uses the Islanders and its fans to help him get what he wants. It’s never been about the Isles, but rather the real estate that just so happens to encompass the arena they play in.

By: Sidd Finch

Sidd Finch — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:54:39 +0000

Fred, where is Long Island College Hospital? Long Island University? Up until the Citicorp building was built in Long Island City (Queens), the Williamsburgh Savings Bank (which will cast a shadow on Atlantic Yards) was the tallest building on Long Island. What about the LA Lakers? Where are the lakes? Or the Utah Jazz, that rockin’ bebop swing capital of the Rocky Mountains? Its just a name, and in light of other examples its just as cogent and clearly more practical than nthe latter examples. Last time I checked, there are no trolleys to dodge anywhere near Chavez Ravine. And this whole Brooklyn controversey could have been avoided had they just built the “new” Dodger Stadium at the corner of Atlantic and Flatbush those 50+ years ago.

Let’s Go (to Brooklyn) Islanders. The joke was on Brooklyn then, it will be on TOH next go round.

By: RobC

RobC — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:21:36 +0000

I think Long Islanders should be in an uproar over the simple fact that Murray has employed a Rye based company as apposed to hiring a Long Island based company? Aren’t there and consulting firms on LI or is this because of the donations she received from the Rye firm? How does she get away with this and LI’ers voted her back in? For what? So she can employ everyone else besides the people she’s supposed to serve? Back in the day, like in the old west they called it what it is, bribes. Wang isn’t looking good but Murray is a scoundrel. This is an outrage on both sides but more on the thieves we call politicians.