After a bumpy first season at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, the Islanders are talking with the owners of the Mets about building a hockey arena next to Citi Field in Flushing, according to Bloomberg, which did not cite anyone by name. The talks have been going on for months.
A move to Flushing would be an audacious maneuver by the Islanders’ new owners, Jon Ledecky and Scott Malkin, who took over from Charles Wang on July 1. The negotiations could be a way for Ledecky and Malkin to accelerate discussions on hockey-related improvements at Barclays or a path to leave Brooklyn for a location in Queens that might be more lucrative and a bit closer to the team’s longtime former home, the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale.