Is The Lighthouse Project Dead?

2009_10_lighthouse.jpg According to the LI Press, Islanders owner Charles Wang has "abandoned" his billion-dollar plans for a new hockey arena in Hempstead called the Lighthouse. Last week, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz said the hockey team would be welcome in Brooklyn, but the Atlantic Yards' Barclays Center isn't big enough to house a hockey rink... Now, word—via ESPN Radio— has it that the Isles have reached out to Queens to see if something can happen in Flushing!

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They ought to put it over the Sunnyside yards, within walking distance of Manhattan and "close to" the BQE, and LIE

What was that pile of crap anyway? The 1988 World's Fair?

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