Sentences with phrase «track racino»
Tabone criticized Braunstein about contributions he accepted, including $ 25,000 from one developer funneled through limited liability companies — which both camps admitted was legal — and large donations from Guardian Life, a company under investigation by the state attorney general's office, and Delaware North, a bidder for the scandal - plagued Aqueduct Race Track racino contract.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS — Firms seeking the 30 - year gaming contract to run a proposed Aqueduct Race Track racino must submit $ 1 million entry fee payments by Tuesday.
That, however, could exacerbate the competition facing the long - established Off - Track Betting facilities, harness track racinos and race tracks.
Not exact matches
The omnibus extraordinary session package also provides a financial incentives to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.
He pressed Schneiderman on the findings of a recent report by Inspector General Joseph Fisch, which detailed a litany of abuse regarding the state senator's handling of a controversial deal to build a racino at the Aquaduct track.
New York State allows gaming, from Native - run casinos to racinos that host video slots to Off - Track Betting centers.
The session was high stakes for Jeff Gural, owner of Vernon Downs harness track and video lottery «racino» in Oneida County.
Wilmot continues his push for at least two years for the state's last available racino license, a state requirement to open a harness race track with video slot machines.
He says it's already here - there are several Indian run casinos, and racinos, with slot like machines, at numerous horse racing tracks.
I do not want to be in a po situation where the assumption these tracks have the racinos and we have to figure out how to get money from them.»
Fearing what could be a 40 percent reduction to video lottery terminal business in the racino at their track, a group of horsemen based at the Finger Lakes Racetrack in Ontario County are calling for the proposed Lago casino to make up some of the difference in order to support the thoroughbred racing there.
With 1,000 new video lottery terminals coming to the Resorts World racino at Aqueduct in Queens, supporters of thoroughbred racing are worried that the new devices could eventually detract from the money that the VLT parlor gives to the state's race tracks.
The contract between Resorts World's video lottery terminal racino at the Aqueduct race track in Queens and the financially strapped Nassau County OTB has been signed and they hope to have almost 500 of what will be 1,000 machines up and running in the next six months.
Cuomo proposed a new plan for New York's Finger Lakes Racetrack designed to compensate for the gambling dollars moving away from that track's racino to the nearby, newly - opened del Lago casino.
Cuomo's budget plan has proposed some subtle changes in the state's gaming industry, which includes horse racing, video lottery, harness track, racinos and full - scale casinos.
«We know it's there,» said Michael Wilton, executive director of the state Gaming Association which represents racinos and harness tracks.
«Obviously there are going to be some unhappy people,» said Jeff Gural, owner of the Tioga Downs harness track and racino, one of three applicants for a license in the Southern Tier - Finger Lakes region.
There are several Indian - run casinos and racinos, with slot - like machines, at numerous horse racing tracks.
At the end of the last legislative session, Jeff Gural, the majority owner of Vernon Downs harness track and racino in Vernon, got lawmakers to grant what amounted to a $ 2 million tax cut after he said he would otherwise close down, costing 300 jobs in the process.
The Empire Resorts selection allows the company — which already operates Monticello Casino & Raceway, a harness track and racino in Sullivan County — to formally apply to the state Gaming Commission for a license, likely a formality.
Genting already runs limited slot like machine gambling at the Aqueduct race track in Queens, known as a racino.
Albany - Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 2018 - 19 budget plan has proposed some subtle changes in the state's gaming industry, which includes horse racing, video lottery, harness track, racinos and full - scale casinos.
AEC's TRO could derail the Paterson administration's plans to fast - track the Aqueduct racino bidding process, in which only one contender remains.
The legislation would allow betting not just at casinos, but at off - track betting sites and racinos, as well.
Limited electronic gambling is permitted at so - called racinos at eight tracks and is set to begin at a ninth, the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, later this year.
Gural last spring convinced lawmakers and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to grant a tax break to another of his properties, the Vernon Downs harness track and video lottery terminal «racino.»
The final legislation renames the Tappan Zee Bridge after former Gov. Mario Cuomo; provides a financial incentive package to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.
Developer Jeff Gural threatened to shut down money - losing Vernon Downs, a harness track and racino in central New York, unless the state gave him a better deal.
The three - member board will decide whether to recommend that Gural's project be allowed to expand his existing Tioga Downs harness track / racino into a full casino.
Because Gural's plan involves adding on to the existing harness track and video lottery machine «racino,» it calls for a smaller dollar amount.
The existing track / racino is located in Nichols, Tioga County, an economically depressed region between Elmira and Binghamton.
Could last week's arrest of New York State Senator Malcolm Smith of New York City revive a somewhat dormant investigation of possible wrongdoing in the awarding several years ago of a license to operate a racino at the Aqueduct Race Track in Queens?
And while they are entering a crowded field, analysts believe the existing racinos, or combination harness tracks and video lottery terminal parlors, face the stiffest challenges, especially if they are near newly built casinos.