State Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins desires to roll the cube — on Yonkers.
The Senate chief helps changing the MGM Empire City slots parlor at Yonkers raceway right into a full-fledged business on line casino with desk video games, which might additionally bode effectively for Genting’s Resorts World On line casino gaming facility adjoining to Aqueduct race monitor in Queens.
“After all I’m going to help my hometown on line casino, which by the best way, has performed the work,” Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) mentioned throughout a Tuesday press briefing.
She mentioned she helps Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to expedite the timetable to have the state Gaming Fee concern licenses for as much as three casinos in New York Metropolis or the encircling suburbs. Beforehand, a moratorium barred consideration of downstate business casinos via 2023.
The MGM Empire Metropolis slots parlor opened in October 2006. Resorts World at Aqueduct, which presently presents 6,000 digital slots and desk video games, opened in 2011.
Each of the present gaming operators plan to use for full on line casino licenses to supply stay card desk video games. Each have the capability to rapidly increase and each have rounded up sturdy neighborhood help to take action, in response to letters of intent filed with the state Gaming Fee.
The state will possible provide a aggressive request for proposals for the licenses.
“Over the past 10 years, we’ve got been extremely lucky to have the unwavering help of a various set of neighborhood leaders, and we’re grateful that they’re now sharing their pleasure over what a full on line casino license would imply for Queens,” Resorts World mentioned in an announcement.
“We share their pleasure to probably be capable to elevate our help with extra good-paying union jobs for native residents, further funding for public faculties and a boon for native small companies.”
Queens lawmakers supporting the Resorts World bid for a business on line casino license embrace Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, Sens. Joe Addabbo Jr. and Leroy Comrie, and Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato, in response to Resorts World’s submission to the gaming fee.
Letters of help have been additionally signed by the Queens Chamber of Commerce, Better Jamaica Improvement Corp., the Jamaica NAACP, United Black Males of Queens and greater than a half dozen pastors.
Different eye-catching proposals have been floated, together with opening a “Monte Carlo” model on line casino on Manhattan’s East River waterfront.
