The Islanders and former Nassau Coliseum lease partner SMG paid off more than $4.4 million in arena-related debt to Nassau County in late February, nearly seven months after the arena lease expired.
The Islanders’ lease to play games at the Coliseum ended July 31, 2015. The team moved to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn before this season in October. County officials said on that final day of the Coliseum lease that the Islanders and SMG agreed to pay their debt — then tabulated to be $3.55 million — in unpaid rent, utilities, parking, concessions and revenue payments.
The payments, copies of which were obtained by Newsday through Freedom of Information Law request, show that the Islanders paid $500,000 on the final day of the Coliseum lease.