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Opposition to a video gambling parlor at Belmont Park intensified Tuesday as Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Rep. Kathleen Rice announced their opposition to the plan.

But Mr. Cuomo said that under his proposal, «this is not the state building a convention center at all,» but rather a privately financed project, pursued in cooperation with the state by Genting, the Malaysian company that in October opened a gambling parlor at Aqueduct.

Not exact matches

To deal with shortages of volunteers working the gambling ventures, Cuomo wants to lift barriers that prohibit people with certain criminal backgrounds — such as a public drunkenness charge when they were a teenager — from working at a bingo parlor.

«The conversation with Genting» will be about «the expansion of the racino,» Cuomo said, referring to the limited gambling parlor currently at Aqueduct that includes slot machines but no live gambling tables for games like poker or roulette.

Currently, gambling is restricted to tribal lands and in slot machine parlors located at racetracks.

Michael Wilton, executive director of the New York Gaming Association, an Albany - based lobbying group representing the state's nine VLT parlors, said putting slots at Belmont «will just cannibalize gambling dollars and threaten existing jobs.»

Horse betting at the adjacent racetrack has shut down for the night, but cards and money continue to flow freely in the smoke - filled gambling parlor, lined with blackjack tables.