Fellow New Yorkers, what's the news on the future Times Sq/Hudson Yards Casino? (47 Viewers)

[Zungab]

See title p much. There've been rumors about a future casino in Manhattan for a while now but I don't know what the current state of things is. Is the city waiting to move MSG first?

 

[NotRealNameNoSir]

No idea, what've you heard? Tell me more.

 

[mdt11]

The state has announced three licenses for casinos downstate. It’s assumed that two will go to the existing casinos in Yonkers and the Aqueduct Race Track.

That leaves one more, which is also assumed to be a brand new site in the city. There are proposals that have been submitted by various billionaires for Hudson yards, Times Square, Flushing/Citi Field and Coney Island, among other areas.

It’s a laborious process filled with RFPs, studies and lobbying galore, but it’s expected that the state will choose the third license some time next year.

And then they’ll have to actually build the thing.

Regardless it is likely a ways away until any cards would actually be in the air (and far from a guarantee that the third casino would even want to use the limited space on a poker room).

 

[mdt11]

“Earlier this year, the Gaming Commission updated the due date for applications to June of next year, with decisions to be made in December 2025.”

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/c...4/09/16/effort-to-expedite-downstate-casinos-