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I have not been to it in a while (9-11 years), so is it as bad as it everyone says, and how? And what do you think will happen to it after the Isles leave.
1) Islanders leave
2) Anything related to Islanders, and all services and upkeep contributed by Islanders, disappears
3) Coliseum continues to lose events to Barclays Center, MSG and Prudential Center
4) Nassau says it's too expensive to maintain, wonders why
5) George Maragos says something stupid
6) Nassau floats replacement ideas that go nowhere
7) Coliseum is closed; rots alongside all the other abandoned properties on Hempstead Turnpike
8) Residents complain that Islanders left, Coliseum closed, they have to go to NYC and New Jersey now for events and that they should have their own arena given all the high taxes they pay
1) Islanders leave
2) Anything related to Islanders, and all services and upkeep contributed by Islanders, disappears
3) Coliseum continues to lose events to Barclays Center, MSG and Prudential Center
4) Nassau says it's too expensive to maintain, wonders why
5) George Maragos says something stupid
6) Nassau floats replacement ideas that go nowhere
7) Coliseum is closed; rots alongside all the other abandoned properties on Hempstead Turnpike
8) Residents complain that Islanders left, Coliseum closed, they have to go to NYC and New Jersey now for events and that they should have their own arena given all the high taxes they pay
I'll bet there are other parts of the country where municipalities have turned them into cultural arts centers or other creative venues that draw crowds and make money. However, here in Nassau where there is no creativity or vision (but plenty of corruption), I fear some of the dark predictions of the other posters will indeed come true.
The usual method of achieving zero tax base for Nassau County:
1. Mangano floats bond for demolition money.
2. Hofstra offers to pay for it in exchange for zero taxes for perpetuity.
3. Kate obstructs the deal.
4. Mausolem rots. No taxes for perpetuity but cops and union hacks still get paid to maintain grounds and patrol.
Town of Hempstead employees steal any copper piping.
Scenario #1: the venue is used as a concert/event arena for a few years until the little maintained building is condemned. The county wont have the money nor will to renovate so it will sit there as a vacant eye-sore for several more years. The land is eventually leased to hofstra, the arena is demolished and the site becomes a boring extension of the university.
Scenario #2: same as scenario 1 except the land is leased to a private corporation that turns the land into a boring shopping center/strip mall type complex. Maybe if we are lucky there will be a crappy minor league baseball stadium thrown in for good measure.
Close to this, if not, sold to Hofstra. They have a new medical school program that is trying to gain traction so I will be some very wealthy benefactor will buy the land and donate it to the school for a School of Medicine to be built.
Close to this, if not, sold to Hofstra. They have a new medical school program that is trying to gain traction so I will be some very wealthy benefactor will buy the land and donate it to the school for a School of Medicine to be built.
I had the same thought. If not the medical school, then more dorms or both.
I'll bet there are other parts of the country where municipalities have turned them into cultural arts centers or other creative venues that draw crowds and make money. However, here in Nassau where there is no creativity or vision (but plenty of corruption), I fear some of the dark predictions of the other posters will indeed come true.
Here in Nassau...where issuing a baseball field permit at a County athletic complex devolves into a fight between political parties, with extra resistance tossed in for good measure by an advocacy group calling for involvement of the state legislature.
What will it matter? Can't you see that life moves on, what we shared yesterday is gone tomorrow.
Did you ever question the loss of the 5 cent cigar, or real cocaine in Coca-Cola? Like all else will do, the Coliseum will
`dry-up-and blow away with every hope that we ever hel for the greatness of Long Island. If you cannot see that we
as a class of people are headed for the ` Tar pt, you are just another fool. Collectvely, we are all in the same sad condition,
living here in an island world, overtaxed, administrated beyond comprehension, and somehow sticking to the illusion that we
are better off than most. Year in, year ot they raise our taxes, like a whip on our backs with ever legislated stroke, we feel
the lash. Much like cows in a pen, we are herded, driven to market by an overage of piply faced clerks and county fed administrators.
Until we have a belly-ful of these whip lashes, and made or mid up that we have been used by these scumbags, well, well just ave to keep
`sucking it up. How much longer are you going to take their crap? What will it take for yo to revolt against this tyranny? If it is not people
lke us who turns the tide of injustice, who then will it be? On another note, these `sports figures make enogh money to support their own
playing field. We have been lulled into idolizing these bums, paying heavily for viewer tickets, $5.00 for a damned Hot-Dog, been frisked at
the door and generally treated like a friggin` crop to the many productions of the NC How shameful it is to think (if even for a moment),
that Long Island residents would be asked to subsidize ANY activity that was deemed a failed private enterprise. I'd rather donate to Al Quaida.
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