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Other locales, including Suffolk, want Islanders

Artist's rendering of the planned Lighthouse project /

Photo credit: Handout / File photo by Alan Raia | Artist's rendering of the planned Lighthouse project / Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy

Suffolk County Executive Steve Levy is ready to keep the Islanders on Long Island - but just farther east.

If the Lighthouse project, a proposed $3.8-billion development of office buildings, apartments and retail space around a rebuilt Nassau Coliseum, doesn't receive the approval of Hempstead Town, Levy said that Suffolk County is "as open today as we ever were" to welcome the Islanders.

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