Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York, east of New York City.
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22 Facts About Nassau Coliseum
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The Nassau Coliseum is used for sporting events, concerts, large exhibitions and shows as well as trade shows—44,000 square feet at the main arena, 60,000 at the Expo Center.
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Nassau Coliseum originally had a capacity of 13,000 to 15,000 depending on the event, and in the early 1980s the maximum capacity was increased to around 18,000.
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Nassau Coliseum County retained William Shea to get an NHL team to play in the new building.
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On October 7,1972, the first Islanders game in Nassau Coliseum was played as the Atlanta Flames visited the Islanders.
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Nassau Coliseum was home to the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association, and later the National Basketball Association, from 1972 to 1977.
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The first event at the Nassau Coliseum was a Nets game against the Pittsburgh Condors on February 11,1972.
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In NCAA Division I men's college basketball, the Nassau Coliseum hosted the ECAC Metro Region tournament organized by the Eastern College Athletic Conference in 1978,1979,1980, and 1981.
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In February 2018, the Nassau Coliseum hosted the New York Open, an ATP 250 men's tennis tournament replacing the long-running Memphis Open.
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Nassau Coliseum was one of only two venues in the United States where Pink Floyd mounted their limited run of shows for The Wall Tour.
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The Nassau Coliseum album was the first to feature a complete concert from the original band.
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Nassau Coliseum was joined onstage by his son, Dweezil Zappa, for the concert's encores.
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Nassau Coliseum has been a mainstay of WWE for over 30 years, and has hosted Raw and SmackDown many times, including the taping of a SmackDown episode where professional wrestler Droz suffered a career-ending injury in 1999.
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In October 2018, the Nassau Coliseum hosted Evolution, the promotion's first all-women's pay-per-view event.
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Nassau Coliseum hosted the opening leg of WrestleMania 2 on April 7,1986.
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Nassau Coliseum hosted several editions of now-defunct WCW's Monday Nitro.
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The Nassau Coliseum was the only Tri-State area venue the Southern-based WCW was allowed to hold events.
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Nassau Coliseum was the second-oldest arena in active use by a National Hockey League team, and until the return of the Winnipeg Jets to the league at the 15,004-seat Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, was the smallest arena in the NHL by total seating capacity.
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In June 2020, Mikhail Prokhorov, whose company ran the Nassau Coliseum, announced that the arena would be closed indefinitely while it sought new investors to take it over and assume the remaining debt as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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