People are being very irrational about this. People bring up Citi Field…well, has anyone seen the area behind it? It looks like a slum. Has anyone been to Yankee stadium? Keep going down Jarome Ave, not a good area. These places may not make the area better but it really doesn’t make it worse.

Someone brought up Turningstone, minutes from Siena and Albany U. Students go there but they aren’t turning into degenerate gamblers. This isn’t going to have kids sleeping outside waiting for another shot at a blackjack table. Sheesh, if it keeps them off the college bar strip on Fulton ave, it’s probably a good thing, that’s a shady place over there.

QUEENS OR BUST!!! TOH lost the NYI and it is all their fault.

I’ve been a diehard fan since the mid ‘70’s, and grew up on L. I. from the mid ‘50’s to the early ‘90’s. Like some of the others who’ve been around for a while, you see the “big picture” as to how slow things are to change and how long your local government will let the populace suffer over any issue from airplane noise, traffic control to train platform safety among others until things get out of hand. Any of you who have read “Fishsticks” already know the answer. It’s all about land development. Always has been, always will be. Wang or Millstein or ?. It doesn’t matter. It’s only because of the pure passion of other Isles fans like you all that the team is still here. But the power and influence comes from the top, and unfortunately for the Islanders, they’re like the red headed stepchild caught in the middle of an ugly divorce. No one wants them, and neither side is willing to admit that, much less step up and give them a home they deserve.

Has L.I. seen better days? Maybe. Are there better days to come? Let’s hope so. One thing is for sure. L.I. ain’t going anywhere. It’s up to the big shots to realize this, stop the “Look at me” politics and stop using the Coliseum as a political football. It’s hockey we’re interested in, not more shopping and gambling. Build a first class venue, and they will come…