{"id":417909,"date":"2025-12-01T19:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417909\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T19:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T19:59:15","slug":"new-york-plans-casinos-near-mets-stadium-and-a-trump-linked-golf-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/417909\/","title":{"rendered":"New York plans casinos near Mets stadium and a Trump-linked golf course"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York City is poised to get its first Vegas-style casinos<\/a>, including one next to the home stadium of baseball\u2019s New York Mets and another that could see a windfall for President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They were among three casino proposals approved for lucrative gambling licenses<\/a> on Monday by a key state panel. No casinos will end up coming to Manhattan, however, as several other competing proposals<\/a> were already scrapped, including one in the heart of Times Square. <\/p>\n

The state Gaming Commission is expected to formally issue the licenses before the end of the year, as the gambling revenues are already factored<\/a> into the state budget. Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul said the casinos promise to unlock billions of dollars in funding for the state\u2019s transit system and create jobs, however opponents have repeatedly warned that easy access to casinos will lead to increased gambling addiction. <\/p>\n

Bally\u2019s plan to spend $4 billion building a casino at the Ferry Point golf course<\/a> in the Bronx could mean millions of dollars for Trump. When the company purchased the city-owned golf course\u2019s operating rights from the Trump Organization in 2023, it promised to pony up another $115 million<\/a> if it won a casino license. Spokespersons for the Trump Organization did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n

In nearby Queens, billionaire New York Mets owner Steve Cohen has proposed building a $8.1 billion<\/a> Hard Rock casino on a parking lot of Citi Field. The complex would include a performance venue, a hotel and retail and shopping space. <\/p>\n

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Resorts World, meanwhile, has proposed investing more than $5 billion<\/a> to expand an existing slots parlor into a full casino at the Aqueduct Race Track, which is also in Queens near John F. Kennedy International Airport. It too would add hotel, dining and entertainment options. <\/p>\n

Vicki Been, chair of New York Gaming Facility Location Board, said the panel believed New York City was \u201cplenty strong\u201d enough to sustain the three planned casinos, despite their close proximity. The region\u2019s dense and relatively affluent population, combined with high tourism, makes it one of the country\u2019s most robust gaming markets, the board said, adding that nearby residents are expected to form the core of repeat visitors, bolstered by travelers from the U.S. and abroad.<\/p>\n

Using conservative assumptions, the board\u2019s consultants estimated the casinos would bring $7 billion in gambling revenues for the state from 2027 to 2036, plus $1.5 billion in licensing fees and nearly $6 billion in related local taxes. The plans include public safety investments and upgrades to public transit and roadways.<\/p>\n

However, the board cautioned that the casinos have \u201cambitious\u201d timelines for opening. The expansion at Aqueduct Race Track aims to open some facilities by March, while the Citi Field and golf course sites plan for a 2030 opening. <\/p>\n

Anti-casino protesters, meanwhile, chanted \u201cShame on you! Shame on you!\u201d as they were escorted out of the meeting in midtown Manhattan. <\/p>\n

Jack Hu, one of the group\u2019s organizers, said casino operators view older adults and workers as merely \u201ccash cows to milk for money.\u201d He said the proposals will have a disproportionately negative impact in the city\u2019s Asian American communities, which are largely concentrated in Queens. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey bus our seniors to casinos, and they give them meal and gambling vouchers in the hopes that they\u2019ll stay long enough to lose their entire Social Security check,\u201d Hu said after the meeting. <\/p>\n

The commission is authorized to license up to three casinos in the New York City area after voters approved a referendum back in 2013 opening the door to casino gambling statewide. <\/p>\n

Since then, four full casinos<\/a> with table games have opened in New York, but all of them are located upstate, miles away from Manhattan. The state also has nine gambling halls<\/a> offering slot machines and other electronic gambling machines, but no live table games.<\/p>\n

The closely watched competition for a New York City license began with a crowded field, with some eight proposals<\/a> in the running as recently as September. <\/p>\n

But four of the high-profile plans failed to get the stamp of approval from local advisory boards, automatically knocking them out of contention. <\/p>\n

Among the most notable was a Jay-Z-backed plan to build a Caesars Palace in Times Square<\/a>, as well as two other resorts proposed in central Manhattan. <\/p>\n

Then in October, MGM abruptly pulled out<\/a> of the license sweepstakes, saying the \u201ccompetitive and economic assumptions underpinning\u201d their plans had changed. The Las Vegas casino giant had planned a major expansion of the Empire City Casino, a slots parlor located at the Yonkers Raceway north of Manhattan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 New York City is poised to get its first Vegas-style casinos, including one next…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":417910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[64,69,171,16759,57,1430,195694,5371,181121,5249,617,405,403,11290,80,2737,62,88558,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-417909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gambling","12":"tag-general-news","13":"tag-golf","14":"tag-jack-hu","15":"tag-kathy-hochul","16":"tag-local-news-for-apple","17":"tag-manhattan","18":"tag-nevada","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-new-york-city","21":"tag-nv-state-wire","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-rhode-island","24":"tag-sports","25":"tag-steve-cohen","26":"tag-u-s-news","27":"tag-united-states","28":"tag-unitedstates","29":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}