The Islanders’ new UBS Arena keeps the team in the New York market. Photo: J. Conrad Williams, Jr./Newsday via Getty Images On Saturday night, the New York Islanders will play their first game at UBS Arena, a handsome new structure just over the city line in western Nassau County, next to the Belmont Park racetrack. The move marks the end of a long relocation process for the ice-hockey team, and it marks the end of a local sports-venue boom.
The most famous and aggressive deployer of this method was the late Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who started making noise in the early 1990s about following the Giants and the Jets to the New Jersey Meadowlands, citing crime in the Bronx and falling attendance. He then tried to engineer a move to the far West Side of Manhattan after local officials floated that site as a compromise. Steinbrenner ultimately did get a new ballpark in the Bronx.
Occasionally, teams seek goodies other than a new arena. The Knicks and the Rangers began flirting with a move to New Jersey just four years after the current Madison Square Garden opened, seeking tax relief from New York City. Nearly a decade later, ownership was still complaining about its taxes, and in 1982, the city agreed to an exemption that is still in place today and likely to be renewed in two years.
joedelessio These stadiums are temples of toxic masculinity!
joedelessio That’s not just a New York thing; that’s every sports franchise anywhere…
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