Mightygoose
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In somewhat related news....
Good news, even for a year and a half. Barclays is awful.
I don't think it will be missed by many
In somewhat related news....
I blame Daniel Bryan.I like the gibberish ticker in the Loge Bar rendering. "YES YES YES CHAMPIONS!!! GO"—
“If construction restarts within a reasonable period, we expect to maintain our schedule and for the arena to be open for the 2021-22 NHL season,” Richard Browne, Sterling Project Development managing partner, said in a statement quoted by The New York Post.
I wonder how many season ticket holders from Quebec?
look at the Islanders helmets.... UBSHas there been a naming rights agreement on the building?
What Islanders Fans Need To Know About Parking And The LIRR At UBS Arena - NY Sports Day
"Once fans arrive at the new Elmont Station, they can either take electric shuttle buses over to UBS Arena or they can take an approximate ten-minute walk via a covered entertainment walkway wired for sound that will connect the Elmont Station with the plaza at the arena.
“If it’s an Islanders game, you’ll hear pre-game and post-game,” said Leiweke. “If it’s a concert, we’ll tap into music of the radio station for that artist. We’ll make that an adventure. It’s 9 minutes and 40 seconds from the Long Island Railroad station to right here.”"
Can someone who understands this a bit better explain to me? It says the walk from the train station is a ten min walk or hop on a shuttle bus. But I thought the belmont station is just steps away from the arena? Ik they are building a new station on the main rail line for elmont, but are trains not going to be running to the belmont stop?
They should run extra shuttle trains to Belmont from Brooklyn.From my understanding, the LIRR is planning on running some extra shuttle trains from Jamaica to the Belmont Park station on event days, with the possibility of trains directly from Penn Station if the event is during off-peak periods. (There is ZERO spare capacity at Penn during peak periods. The whole "busiest train station in the Western Hemisphere" thing.) Possibly even some directly from Grand Central Terminal once the new LIRR portion of Grand Central opens late next year.
But, as noted, the Belmont Park station is on a spur branch that can only be accessed off the LIRR Main Line by eastbound trains, as the junction is to the west of the track (and arena). So even though Belmont Park station is pretty much right next to the racetrack's grandstand and the arena, it's not going to be useful to people arriving from points further east on Long Island, who make a sizable part of the Islanders' fan base. For those folks, and to fill a gap between local stations on the main line, a new Elmont station on the other side of the racetrack is being constructed, which will allow Nassau County riders to take the train to Isles games. (No converting the Belmont Park station to be a through station can't be done; the tracks would have to go through the racetrack, destroying it.)
In some ways it will actually help with post-game station crowding, too, as the Long Island-bound passengers will go to a separate station from the NYC-bound passengers (though the latter could also use the Elmont station).
Not a bad idea, though I don't know if there would be that much ridership.They should run extra shuttle trains to Belmont from Brooklyn.
Ahh that would make more sense. I’ll check that out.Actually, the new station is going to be just off the top edge of that photo on the other side of the Cross Island, not in the middle of the wye. The more recent aerial Google Maps has up now even shows the beginning of construction (along with the Arena).
pretty much each new arena looks around and takes things that they like from other arenas and incorporates it into theirs if it makes sense.I am loving the way they designed this arena. It's gonna definitely be one of the best, if not the best, arena in the NHL.