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Officials held a ground-breaking ceremony Monday to celebrate construction starting on the Islanders’ new arena at Belmont Park in Elmont — the project that’s bringing the NHL team home to Long Island.

After a season that was preceded with despair over the departure of New York Islanders’ longtime Captain John Tavares to the Toronto Maple Leafs, the team once again defied hockey “experts” dismal expectations ahead of the teams anticipated move from Brooklyn to Elmont.

Instead of a hockey arena, the land should be used for a community center, Little League fields, and other sports fields, according to Elmont Against The Megamall.

Nassau County Legis. Carrié Solages (D-Elmont) was arrested early Wednesday morning for allegedly assaulting his girlfriend in Valley Stream, Nassau County police said, sparking swift and bipartisan calls for his immediate resignation.

A man was arrested for kidnapping his girlfriend from Elmont, locking her in the trunk of his car and driving her to his hometown of Brooklyn this week, Nassau County police said.

A Queens man who killed a 47-year-old taxi cab driver in a Franklin Square hit-and-run crash last year admitted to the crime on Wednesday, the day his trial was set to begin.

A Queens man was arrested this week for allegedly punching a 74-year-old man in the face during an Elmont home invasion last year, Nassau County police said.

The New York Islanders plan to formally submit a proposal to build a new arena on vacant land next to Belmont Park racetrack in Elmont, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman told reporters Friday.

Some big wig sports executives are reportedly in talks with the New York Islanders' owners about funding the construction of a new arena for the NHL team at Belmont Park in Elmont.

A man suffered burns while trying to save his 70-year-old father, who died after being trapped in an Elmont house fire early Saturday morning,...