Sentences with phrase «on aqueduct»

Bidders on the Aqueduct racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, will have to prove their ability to pay the state $ 200 million within 30 days of winning the redevelopment rights to the project, Governor Paterson wrote in a letter to the companies on Friday.

The Shinnecock Indian Nation has numerous hurdles to clear be before it could develop a casino off - reservation and we do not expect that it will have a major impact on the Aqueduct casino.»

«I'm very divided on what the Mayor just said,» said Rev. Peter Silva, who lives in a Milbank building on Aqueduct Avenue.

And following a recent agreement between Genting Group, the parent company of Resorts World New York, which is located on Aqueduct grounds, and Nassau County Off - Track Betting, the casino is set to get 1,000 new video lottery terminals, bringing the facility's gaming capacity to approximately 6,000 VLTs.

The Shinnecocks haven't bid on the Aqueduct racino and shouldn't «cause concern» for potential bidders, the Paterson administration said.

Not exact matches

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It was reasoning like this that led Rabbi Yitzhok Ben Levi, the great Jewish mystic, to hit the double at Aqueduct 52 days running and still wind up on relief.»

Now we'll stay in Florida and go for the Florida Derby at Gulfstream on April 1, and then to Aqueduct for the Gotham and the Wood Memorial before going to Kentucky.»

Dr. Fager ($ 3.60), namesake of the Boston neurosurgeon who last year operated on Trainer Johnny Nerud, won the $ 88,350 Cowdin Stakes at Aqueduct with Willie Shoemaker up and took a firm grip on 2 - year - old Horse of the Year honors.

Well worth watching as a preview of the Belmont Futurity will be the Cowdin on the last day of the Aqueduct meeting.

Among the contenders desperate for money is Gemologist, the 8/5 morning - line favorite for the Grade 1 Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on Saturday.

Saucy never raced at Saratoga, but her trainer brought her to old Aqueduct on Long Island that fall.

Orb won his first race two days after Thanksgiving at Aqueduct and then won his first race of 2013 in a 11 / 8 - mile stake on Jan. 13 at Florida's Gulfstream Park, winter home for some of McGaughey's horses.

Before Dancer's Image won the Wood Memorial at Aqueduct on April 20 he had been treated by New York Veterinarian Mark (Mike) Gerard.

Gulch had also won in the mud as a 2 - year - old, which loomed as an edge on the sloppy Aqueduct strip on Saturday.

On the last day of the long (234 days) New York season the 5 - year - old Damelo II (a son of Sculptor and grandson of Tenerani) won the two - mile Display Handicap, giving Argentina the distinction of having produced the winner of the longest handicap run anywhere in the U.S.. Two months earlier a nine - race Aqueduct card included 23 foreign - breds, 13 of them from Argentina.

As three - year - old horses jockey, so to speak, for position to make the field in next month's Kentucky Derby, one of the races many will be keeping their eye on will be Saturday's Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct.

In an open letter sent to the legislative leaders, Gov. Andrew Cuomo this afternoon expanded on his proposal to build a convention center in Queens adjacent to the Aqueduct Racetrack, saying that the investment will pay off in 20,000 permanent and temporary jobs and a $ 4 billion investment in the state.

ALBANY — A majority of New York State voters oppose Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's plan for building the country's largest convention center at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, according to a poll released on Monday.

At its monthly meeting on Monday, the gaming commission adopted an emergency rule that would charge trainers based at New York Racing Association tracks - Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga - $ 5.65 per stall per day toward workers» compensation insurance.

NEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters)- The New York Lottery said on Tuesday it restarted its search for a video lottery terminal vendor for Aqueduct Racetrack after the previous choice was rejected amid state and federal probes.

Paterson calculates that after a deal is closed on installation of a gambling casino at the Aqueduct Race Track, the winning bidder would pay at least $ 200 million to the state.

The aqueduct draws on upstate reservoirs to supply 10 % of New York City's drinking water supply.

We would hope that the Aqueduct project could be finalized within one year on an expedited time frame.

FLUSHING — From restored funding for senior centers to ambitious proposals for convention centers at the Aqueduct racino, Helen Marshall dwelled mostly on the positives for Queens during her State of the Borough address on Tuesday.

Rank and file legislators fear a repeat of the 2010 bid rigging scandal over gambling at the Aqueduct that cost the State Senate's Democrats their majority, but don't want to be shutout of the dealing on the lucrative casino licenses.

Mayor Bloomberg, who reportedly was taken by surprise by Gov. Andrew Cuomo's State of the State announcements on eradicating the fingerprint requirement for foodstamps and building the nation's largest convention center / casino at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens, is getting his revenge this afternoon.

• SL Green wanted the right to sublease any portion of the Aqueduct video lottery casino to any affiliate without the State's consent, on terms defined by SL Green.

During an appearance Friday evening on former governor David Paterson's WOR radio show, Governor Andrew Cuomo said talks with gambling giant Genting to build a casino and convention center at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park «haven't really worked out,» and that he's shopping around for another developer.

The findings in the state Inspector General's bombshell report on the bidding process for selecting a VLT operator at Aqueduct race course are appalling.

Traffic can get backed up for miles during rush hour on the Schenectady County side of the bridge, where the intersection of Aqueduct and Balltown roads physically abuts the bridge.

State Supreme Court Judge Barry D. Kramer granted Aqueduct Entertainment Company (formerly known as AEG) the temporary restraining order it sought, ordering the state Lottery Division to cease the Aqueduct racino bidding process pending a July 23 hearing on its lawsuit.

Nassau Regional Off - Track Betting Corp. has missed a $ 3 million payment on a short - term note to a Manhattan investment bank as it awaits revenue from a deal transferring its authority to install 1,000 video slot machines to Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.

Speaking of deals, the governor and legislative leaders have agreed on a bill for temporary state government takeover of the association that runs the state's three thoroughbred tracks — including Aqueduct and Belmont.

With Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan for a convention center near the Aqueduct in Queens grabbing headlines, the New York Times checked in on the status of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's plan for a similar, albeit smaller, convention center in the borough.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Top Senate Democrats have to lay their cards on the table for the state inspector general's probe into the controversial Aqueduct «racino» deal, a judge ruled yesterday.

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

The decision is critical locally, because New York Racing Association is slated to get a significant share of Aqueduct racino revenue, much of which would be spent on Saratoga Race Course improvements.

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.

The speculation surrounding Governor David Paterson's award of the Aqueduct Raceway contract to Aqueduct Entertainment Group, a politically connected conglomerate, is mounting, as news has emerged on WPIX that federal investigators are launching a formal investigation to determine whether there was any wrongdoing during the selection process.

With Governor Andrew Cuomo's plan for a convention center near the Aqueduct in Queens grabbing headlines, the New York Times checked in on the...

A confidential report on the six former Aqueduct race track contract bidders had been released to the New York Times, which sought the document through a Freedom of Information Act request, raising more questions over the legitimacy of Aqueduct Entertainment Group's selection.

A trotter at Meadowlands While «Aqueduct» is the name on the tip of every person's tongue these days when it comes to the great...