Sentences with phrase «slots parlor»
The arrangement would solve Nassau's problem of finding a location for a video slots parlor — which has been met with staunch opposition at more than one proposed site — while guaranteeing the county a revenue stream through OTB.
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Rice (D - Garden City), who represents Floral Park, where village officials have threatened to sue to block the video slots parlor, said the project «is not in the community's best interests.»
ALBANY — A giant Malaysian gaming and resort entertainment firm with worldwide clout is in line to turn over $ 380 million to the state and gain the rights to build and operate the long - delayed video slots parlor at the state's Aqueduct Race Track in Queens.
A casino in any of those locations would potentially cut into the revenues of the Catskills casino as well as the existing slot parlors in Yonkers and Queens.
The project there estimates that half its revenues will come from gamblers now going to slot parlors in Farmington and Batavia and the Oneida Indian Nation's Turning Stone casino, as well as to casinos owned by the Senecas.
Jeff Gural, whose Tioga Downs slot parlor in the Southern Tier is on track to receive a casino license, called US Attorney Preet Bharara an «awful human being» for his prosecution of former Deputy Senate Majority Leader Tom Libous, of Binghamton.
The board held off on awarding a fourth license, and said protecting the racinos and slot parlors was one reason they didn't award a license in Orange County.
That includes Genting, which operates the Resorts World Casino racetrack and slot parlor in Queens; Yonkers Raceway; Saratoga Harness; and American Racing and Entertainment, which operates Tioga Downs.
It would have crowded video - slot parlors in Yonkers and Queens.
ALBANY — In an upcoming book, longtime Capitol correspondent Tom Precious will tell the story of casinos in modern New York, including the current process of siting up to four gambling halls upstate, the pacts between Native American tribes and past governors that gave birth to Turning Stone and the three casinos operated by the Seneca Nation of Indians, as well as the video slot parlors approved by state leaders in 2001, just weeks after the September 11 attacks.
Not exact matches
The property has a 133,000 - square foot casino with 29 table games, more than 2,000 slot and video poker machines, a bingo parlor, keno lounge, poker room and race and sports book.
Crosby and Commissioner James McHugh supported a proposal by the Cordish Companies to build a slot machine parlor in Leominster.
In 2013, state lawmakers approved legislation allowing Nassau and Suffolk OTBs each to erect a gambling parlor with 1,000 video slot machines.
State legislation enacted in 2013 that authorized construction of up to four upstate casinos also allowed Nassau and Suffolk counties to build gambling parlors with up to 1,000 video slot machines and table games such as roulette, baccarat and blackjack.
«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.
Harness tracks are connected to the VLT parlors and revenues from the slots have long helped support the racing.
Maney also recommends regulators keep an eye on what he calls «vulnerable populations» like seniors, who frequent slot machine parlors.
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.»
If the referendum fails, the law allows for an additional slot machine parlor on Long Island.