Sentences with phrase «at aqueduct»

Try your luck at Resort World Casino or bet on a good time at Aqueduct Racetrack or Belmont Racetrack, both nearby.

Perhaps the closest Smith had come to prosecution before last week, though, was for his ties to a group bidding for the $ 300 million contract to run a casino at Aqueduct Racetrack.

Turns out Ulrich won more than $ 10,000 from a slot machine during a visit last year to the Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct, not far from his district.

The governor said $ 4 billion would be needed from the private sector to build a convention center at the Aqueduct racino.

Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct Racetrack refinanced the complex with a $ 225 million loan from Wells Fargo, property records filed with the city Thursday show.

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?

Jenkins» other clients include Genting Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct, Deloitte & Touche and Education Reform Now Advocacy.

It already has, by his count, 29,000 gaming machines like the ones at Aqueduct.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP)-- The operator of the Resorts World Casino New York City at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens has released details of a resort casino it is hoping to build in Orange County, and will present its plans during a Town of Tuxedo board meeting Monday evening.

A good deal of the audit focused on a new simulcast center and sports bar going in at Aqueduct which has suffered cost overruns.

In a development that could be linked to the casino issue, the governor also announced a unique private - public partnership for the nation's largest convention center at Aqueduct Race Track.

State Sen. John Sampson has given his approval of Genting NY's bid for the video lottery terminal contract at Aqueduct Race Track.

«They're very close to picking a company to run a racino at Aqueduct, and that's in the heart of the 38th,» he said.

A former State Inspector General's report raised questions about the way the gambling corporation AEG was chosen to run slot - like machines at the Aqueduct, alleging that pay - to - play activities occurred.

Genting New York LLC, which developed the Resorts World casino at the Aqueduct race track in South Ozone Park, made two contributions to the senator's campaign: $ 3,000 in April and $ 2,300 in July.

The operator of the Resorts World Casino New York City at Aqueduct Racetrack has taken the wraps off its proposed casino development for an Orange County town.

The Times reported last week that Genting, a Malaysian gambling company that had worked with Mr. Cuomo on a plan to build a convention center and casino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, gave $ 400,000 to the group in 2011, and that the New York Gaming Association, a trade group founded by Genting and other companies, donated the $ 2 million in December.

The Sterling Forest casino would be just an hour's drive from New York City and would be operated by the same company that runs the Resorts Word racino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens.

Eight years, and many will - they - won't - they stories, after former New York Governor George Pataki first granted permission for electronic slot machines to be built at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, a winning bid to develop the track has yet to be picked.

The task force was appointed by Governor Cuomo following a spate of horse deaths at the winter meet at Aqueduct.

With the state in a budget crunch and losing $ 1 million in education money for every day the video lottery terminals at Aqueduct Race Track are not up and running, a spokesman for Gov. David Paterson said there is no deadline for selecting a firm to run the machines at the Ozone Park track.

WASHINGTON — An old friend of Bill Clinton's whose company was desperately trying to win a bid to run a slots casino at Aqueduct reached out to then - Secretary of State...

Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct Racetrack refinanced the complex with a $ 225 million loan from Wells Fargo, property records filed with the city Thursday...

As bidders sought his support in the fierce battle for the lucrative casino license at Aqueduct Racetrack, the winning bidder's lobbyist says, the Rev. Al Sharpton...

The state Lottery Division has «unanimously» and «with genuine enthusiasm» recommended the last bidder standing, the Malaysian - based Genting New York, to receive a lucrative contract to develop and operate a racino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens.

Cuomo envisions a «state - of - the - art» facility at Aqueduct Racetrack nearly 20 percent bigger than the 3.1 million square foot McCormick Place convention center in Chicago — which, as it happens, is reported to be running at only 55 percent capacity after a costly expansion of its own.

Some other interesting notes: Genting, which won the contract to operate the Racino at Aqueduct race course in Queens, spent about $ 870,000 in lobbying last year even though they were awarded the contract to install the VLT's in 2010.

Cuomo said on TALK 1300 that the role of this state government is to bring dramatic change when speaking about building the nation's potentially largest convention center at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.

Cuomo proposed replacing the 1986 I.M. Pei - designed complex with a massive new 3.8 million square foot convention center at the Aqueduct Race Track in Queens — built using $ 4 billion in private funds.

«Federal recognition of the Shinnecock Indian Nation should not cause concern for the potential bidders at Aqueduct, since the State will have significant approval authority for any future gaming venues, including the terms of any such agreement.

File photo - Visitors play the slot machines at the Resorts World Casino at Aqueduct Racetrack on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011, in Jamaica, New York.

Asked by a reporter about a recent report that detailed the corrupt handling of a controversial deal to build a casino at Aqueduct racetrack, Bloomberg took the opportunity to blast Schneiderman as an Albany insider.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.