THE NEWS SAYS: Gov. Cuomo missed opportunity to add new schools, homes and parks.

However much it may ache to admit it, the New York Islanders never quite settled into their digs at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, where they started skating in 2015. In hindsight, the Isles were temporary visitors sharing with the Nets digs notoriously ill-suited for hockey, barely able to boost weak ticket sales.

Sixty years after the Dodgers broke Brooklyn’s heart and packed up for points west, the planned return of the Islanders to their Nassau County point of origin won’t leave a lasting scar on the borough. But put Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams in the penalty box for petulantly suggesting the team ought to pack up their pucks right now.

But what does disappoint is confirmation that the Isles’ eventual new home will be built at Belmont Park, with the enthusiastic support of Gov. Cuomo. The four-time Stanley Cup franchise led an investment group with the winning $1 billion bid for a sports and entertainment complex that will include an 18,000-seat arena.

A new wintertime sporting venue is warranted for roomy Belmont — yet Cuomo never countenanced the concept that would have been a true winner for New York, namely moving the horses from nearby Aqueduct to a new winter racetrack at Belmont.

Shuttering the Big A could have freed up a couple hundred acres of public land in Queens for desperately needed housing, complete with good rail and road links and Kennedy Airport nearby.

Already stuck with a casino next to Aqueduct’s very empty clubhouse and grandstand, Cuomo snubs a brighter new future for the Queens tract.

A chance to open space for housing and a new community with shopping and parks and schools would have been so much more significant than a third home for a slippery hockey club.