Talk about a payday. Resorts World Casino New York City, New York City’s first Racino, is not only paying 94 percent of its revenues back to its patrons, but also returning a good chunk of its profits back to the state to help support education. The Racino took in $3.18 billion between April and mid-June [...]
New York’s first casino had its first robbery less than a year after its opening. The robber entered Resorts World Casino New York City at about 4:30 p.m. on Friday, June 29 and approached a teller at the gate, police said. He passed the teller a note and simulated a weapon in his waistband. The [...]
Resorts World, the state’s first casino, was robbed for the first time Friday afternoon, it has been reported. According to The Daily News, the unarmed robber entered the second floor of the casino and slipped a note to a cashier demanding cash. This comes after a recent announcement that the South Ozone Park casino topped [...]
By State Senator Jose Peralta It was tremendously disappointing to learn that Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan to build the country’s largest convention center at the Aqueduct Racetrack will not come to fruition. No sooner had the governor announced the plan during his State of the State address in January than I endorsed the idea and [...]
Willets Point might become the new destination for a convention center, after it was announced that plans for one near the Aqueduct Racetrack have fallen through. Governor Andrew Cuomo acknowledged Friday, June 1, that talks for what would have been the largest convention center in the country were not working out. Any future plans to [...]
Following numerous requests from residents and officials for more police officers, the 106th Precinct has added 15 members to its expanded force. The additional officers were introduced to the public at the precinct’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 9 by Captain Thomas Pascale. Senator Joseph Addabbo welcomed the cops during the meeting, congratulating Pascale on [...]
By James Featherstonhaugh President of the New York Gaming Association New York State has been in the gambling business for decades. But for the first time in our state’s history, lawmakers in Albany are acknowledging that reality, and have started a process to take advantage of it for the benefit of all New Yorkers and [...]
Possession is nine-tenths of the law — a lesson Governor Andrew Cuomo has apparently learned the hard way. According to published reports, when the governor proposed a plan for the largest convention center in the country next to Resorts World in South Ozone Park, he was under the impression the land belonged to the Port [...]
Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plans to build the country’s largest convention center in Queens overshadowed any previous items on Community Board 10’s agenda. During the board’s first monthly meeting of the year, officials cited current problems with traffic near the Racino and said it would only get worse without any direct transportation to the proposed convention [...]
During his State of the State address on January 4, Governor Andrew Cuomo made many bold pronouncements, but perhaps his most ambitious statement was his proposal for the “nation’s largest convention center in Queens.” And the governor already has a spot picked out and a developer in mind – Genting America, the company which brought [...]
