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Old 08-20-2014, 11:20 AM
 
Location: Islip Township
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Brooklyn will be the Isles down fall.
Very few fans if any are going to risk going . Take a good look at the area.
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Old 08-20-2014, 11:54 AM
 
Location: Nassau County
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Then why are they making a 13k seat arena?! Who will be the anchor tenant?!

There wont really be one. Ratner never said there would be an anchor tenant that would fill the arena to capacity. It will pretty much be a multi-use facility now for concerts, events etc., a minor league hockey team eventually and a handful of Islander games (those will all be sold out) played there per year.
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Old 08-20-2014, 11:55 AM
 
Location: Nassau County
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Brooklyn will be the Isles down fall.
Very few fans if any are going to risk going . Take a good look at the area.

Went to a preseason there last year. Awful Awful arena to watch hockey in. I don't think the immediate area around Barclays is an issue (just don't stray too many blocks from the arena). The issue is getting there sucks and takes forever. Its easier for me to get to MSG then it is to Barclays. If you are a Suffolk Islander fan its even worse. I think this is doomed to fail. But time will tell.
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Old 08-20-2014, 12:10 PM
 
Location: Inis Fada
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Went to a preseason there last year. Awful Awful arena to watch hockey in. I don't think the immediate area around Barclays is an issue (just don't stray too many blocks from the arena). The issue is getting there sucks and takes forever. Its easier for me to get to MSG then it is to Barclays. If you are a Suffolk Islander fan its even worse. I think this is doomed to fail. But time will tell.
While I haven't been to the Barclay Center, I have been to the Roulette Theater on Atlantic Ave, a few blocks from Barclays. When I looked it up on a map, I made a point of not venturing off Atlantic Ave as the Gowanus projects weren't that far away. The portion of Atlantic I was on wasn't gentrified Boerum Hill as it seemed to have more Middle Eastern shops than hipster hang outs.

With respect to seating at Barclays, there are a number of reports which indicate ice level seats in the ends have seriously impeded views.
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Old 08-20-2014, 12:15 PM
 
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Brooklyn will be the Isles down fall.
Very few fans if any are going to risk going . Take a good look at the area.
the area is fine. The arena sucks.
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Old 08-20-2014, 12:25 PM
 
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The guy is a businessman. He doesn't care about the fans or the team and he damn sure doesn't give a damn about whether or not some people are butthurt about the move/sale.
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Old 08-20-2014, 01:14 PM
 
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The guy is a businessman. He doesn't care about the fans or the team and he damn sure doesn't give a damn about whether or not some people are butthurt about the move/sale.

Pretty knee jerk clichéd point. The "businessman" took more "butthurt" doing backflips keeping the team on LI cause he lives here and wanted to be part of a turnaround, only to be just another long islander to feel the wrath of too many layers of hack govt ineptitude and nimby shortsightedness. If it was about profit he could have sold 10 years ago and every year since. Holy crap, I'm sick of defending Wang but too many on here seem to have little sense of the actual history of what went on from 2001-2014. The guy made every effort, including forking over his own dough to keep the Islanders on LI. The only thing he wouldn't do is build an arena out of pocket without a partner and the partner is a LI RE mogul who demanded lots of retail and entertainment. No one, including the taxpayers, had any interest in just developing an arena by itself. No one...except maybe Kate "I love the 1950's" Murray and Ed "I'll take anything I can get and don't have to pay for" Mangano.
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Old 08-20-2014, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Nassau County
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While I haven't been to the Barclay Center, I have been to the Roulette Theater on Atlantic Ave, a few blocks from Barclays. When I looked it up on a map, I made a point of not venturing off Atlantic Ave as the Gowanus projects weren't that far away. The portion of Atlantic I was on wasn't gentrified Boerum Hill as it seemed to have more Middle Eastern shops than hipster hang outs.

With respect to seating at Barclays, there are a number of reports which indicate ice level seats in the ends have seriously impeded views.

Its true. Barclay's was specifically designed with one sport in mind: Basketball. It was never meant to be a hockey or even a multi sport arena.
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Old 08-20-2014, 01:43 PM
 
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Its true. Barclay's was specifically designed with one sport in mind: Basketball. It was never meant to be a hockey or even a multi sport arena.
the original Gehry design did in fact allow for the arena to handle both ice hockey and basketball. Then Ratner started running out of money....
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Old 08-20-2014, 03:50 PM
 
Location: Nassau County
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the original Gehry design did in fact allow for the arena to handle both ice hockey and basketball. Then Ratner started running out of money....
Interesting, never knew that.
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