Sentences with phrase «aqueduct vlt»

The payment, which county officials said was due March 31, comes from revenue from video slot machines at Aqueduct Racetrack.

On the day of the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct, New York Racing Association CEO Chris Kay gave details of the upcoming meets at Belmont and Saratoga Race Course.

Aqueduct is an unloved, dilapidated and utilitarian horse track.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — Aqueduct Entertainment Co. plans to appeal last week's court decision and seek an injunction that could delay selection of an Aqueduct racino operator.

In 2016, language in the state budget allowed Nassau OTB to transfer its right to host up to 1,000 VLTs at a casino to Genting New York LLC, which operates Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct.

Nassau was entitled to $ 3 million from the Aqueduct VLTs in calendar year 2016, $ 3 million in the 2017 state fiscal year and $ 20 million in subsequent fiscal years, according to letters OTB sent in 2016 to Barsky and then - County Executive Edward Mangano.

They also backed a plan to pipe sewage from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant to the Cedar Creek Sewage Treatment Plant in Wantagh through an abandoned aqueduct running along Sunrise Highway.

Resorts World Casino was New York City's first legalized gambling «racino» at Aqueduct Racetrack.

campaign, for refusing to relinquish state control of the New York Racing Association, which runs Saratoga Race Course, Belmont Park and Aqueduct Race Track.

Nassau OTB gets revenue from more than 500 dedicated VLTs at Aqueduct as a result of language in the 2016 state budget.

A man uses a video lottery terminal on Saturday at Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct Racetrack.

NYRA, a 55 - year - old not - for - profit organization, also operates the Aqueduct and Belmont race courses.

In return for that, we see the possibility that Genting would be granted the opportunity to build a full casino at Aqueduct that could be the busiest in the world.

Having VLTs at both Aqueduct and Belmont, about 10 miles from each other, wouldn't have been good business.

Curran and Martins agreed on the need to expedite a plan to pipe sewage from the Bay Park Sewage Treatment Plant through an abandoned aqueduct that runs along Sunrise Highway.

Moving all horse - related activity from Aqueduct and to Belmont, as the New York Racing Association wants to do, would make a lot of sense.

That would include the opening of a similar «full - service» casino within a 65 - mile radius of Aqueduct or if Resorts World's gambling revenue drops by 10 percent or more.

Nassau Regional Off - Track Betting Corp. missed a deadline to pay $ 3 million to Nassau County under a revenue - sharing agreement for video lottery terminals at Aqueduct Racetrack, generating concern about whether OTB will be able to make a $ 20 million payment due next year.

Most important, however, Aqueduct and Belmont and their neighborhoods could get a shot at a better future.

Increasing the action at Belmont while freeing NYRA of responsibility for Aqueduct could give this group the opportunity to create a first - class sports and entertainment destination.

In late January, Paterson named AEC to run the Aqueduct racino.

NYRA has been tasked with creating a future for the three tracks the state owns — Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga — but has been denied the tools to do so.

«However, the New York State Division of the Lottery has received $ 1 million mandatory entry fees from six potential bidders to develop and operate a video gaming facility at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.

SARATOGA SPRINGS — The head of the state Senate's racing committee says he's concerned about the selection of Aqueduct Race Track's gaming operator, because only one bidder remains.

That, as was discussed with a plan to build a full casino and convention center at Aqueduct, would likely have to involve Genting giving NYRA money to redevelop Belmont.

Cuomo is supporting Aqueduct racino operator Genting's plan to spend $ 4 billion to build the nation's biggest convention center adjacent to the Queens racetrack in exchange for state approval to expand racinos run by the Malaysian - based gaming giant.

Now, after secret negotiations and extensive work by state Sen. Jack Martins (R - Old Westbury) and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, lawmakers in Albany have agreed to a deal that will put Nassau's machines at the Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct, where Genting New York LLC already operates about 5,400 machines.

The state Lottery Division in 2010 disqualified a winning bid from the Aqueduct Entertainment Group and Mr. Adams, then the chairman of the Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee, was castigated in the report for not being diligent enough in his oversight of the bidding process.

Among the highest paying clients - the gambling conglomerate Genting, which wants to expand the Aqueduct race track, and Rudin Management, a major real estate firm.

No one comes out clean in the state watchdog's 308 - page report released today on rampant cronyism and scheming around the contract to operate the casino at the Aqueduct Race Track.

The Aqueduct bidding was also muddied by accusations of influence peddling after one of the contenders, SL Green, hired lobbyist Bill Lynch, who had worked for Paterson.

He called on Smith, who has had a number of ethics problems, including efforts to influence the awarding of the Aqueduct racing contract, to resign immediately.

Genting already runs limited slot like machine gambling at the Aqueduct race track in Queens, known as a racino.

And he was waist - deep in the Aqueduct racino scandal.

The legislative changes will include provisions to help video lottery terminal operators, located at several harness tracks and Aqueduct Race Track, generate additional revenue; measures that will increase aid to education.

According to Hayward, under a 2008 agreement, New York is obligated to fund NYRA's shortfalls in the absence of lottery terminals at Aqueduct.

And so Cuomo's casino - siting commission dutifully announced the placement of three new gambling emporiums — one up in the Finger Lakes, not too close to the Indian casinos to be a bother; another on an a brownfield site along the Mohawk River in Schenectady, and a third in Sullivan County to entice New Yorkers tired of getting their action from the Genting gaming behemoth at Aqueduct race track in Queens.

The governor, in a question and answer session with reporters, sought to put more space between himself and Genting, saying it was really his predecessor, Governor Paterson, who forged the deal for Genting to run the racino at the Queens Aqueduct race rack.

A new tax revenue generating project the governor is proposing is the construction of a convention center and gambling casino at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.

Sampson met with reporters after the New York Post reported Friday that investigators said he leaked confidential bidding information to the lobbyist for the politically connected firm, Aqueduct Entertainment Group.

After the latest controversy, Cuomo's aides ordered the state Lottery Division to withhold slot machine payments earned at Aqueduct race track, worth about $ 3 million dollars a month, starving the financially shaky NYRA from a vital source of revenue.

Also Wednesday, the New York Hotel and Motel Trades Council announced its support for the international gaming outfit Genting, one of the active bidders in the new round of Aqueduct bidding.

He plans to get $ 200 million from the group yet to be chosen to put video lottery terminals at Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, a process that's been delayed for years.

State Sen. John Sampson (D - Brooklyn), the Democratic leader of the Senate, acknowledged sending a memo to a former colleague - turned - lobbyist representing Aqueduct Entertainment Group that led to AEG changing the terms of its bid for the video lottery terminal contract at Aqueduct.

NYRA, founded in 1955 as a private nonprofit organization, holds the franchise to operate Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga thoroughbred tracks through 2033.

The project, which was to have been built by a Malaysian gambling company at the Aqueduct racetrack near Kennedy Airport, was a signature initiative of Mr. Cuomo's and a central thrust of his State of the State address in January.

He was referenced in a scathing Inspector General's report into a possible bid - rigging scam involving Senate Democrats during the awarding of the Aqueduct racino in Queens.

ALBANY — A state Supreme Court judge has granted the rejected winner in the Aqueduct racino competition a restraining order that halts the new round of bidding in the long - delayed process.

Here's an interior shot of the bridge of the USS Enterprise proposed convention center adjacent to the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.

I understood NYRA to have a long - term lease on the vast majority of the land at the Aqueduct facility, namely the clubhouse side of the building, the racetrack itself, and the land containing the barns and shops on the backstretch... so if that's true, where is all this new development going to go?