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Hundreds of Long Islanders watched as New York Islanders players and elected officials plunged their shovels into a pile of dirt last September to mark the beginning of construction on the state’s nearly $2 billion Belmont Park redevelopment project. Now, a year later, that dirt patch is gone, and has been replaced with a large steel structure that for ms the outline of the Islanders’ new home. The 23,000-square-foot facility will house a 17,000seat arena for the hockey franchise. It will also feature
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fans can enjoy the noise and intimacy they were accustomed to at the Coliseum, but will have more women’s restrooms, “because we find that’s a bottleneck,” and eight bars facing the ice so they won’t miss any of the action on the ice when they get a drink. The arena will also host more than 150 events a year, and Irving Azoff, chairman of the Azoff Company, which represents recording artists, said in July that he expected it to draw musicians such as Bruce Springsteen, Billie Eilish and Billy Joel. Azoff had spoken to managers about what they would like to see Continued on page 11
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the team’s four Stanley Cups on podiums that play game highlights when you press a button, and other Islanders memorabilia. “We’re taking the best features of Nassau Coliseum” while improving on the aspects that fans didn’t like about the “old Barn,” Jon Ledecky, co-owner of the team, said in an interview with the Herald after the second period of Sunday’s NHL playoff game against the Tampa Bay Lightning, adding that the Coliseum was “past its expiration date” by the mid-1990s. To that end, he said, the UBS Arena will have more seats in the lower bowl, so
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