Yonkers Racino Still Doing Brisk Business Amid Talks Of Casino Upgrade
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Yonkers Racino is doing well despite talk of a casino upgrade. The Empire City Casino at Yonkers is 15 years old and has 5,000 slot machines. It has a bus route that ferries passengers from Jersey City to Fort Lee. New York does not allow smoking indoors at gambling facilities. The future of the casino is still unknown. iReport.com. For confidential support call the Samaritans on 08457 90 90, visit a local Samaritan branch or click here.
Yonkers Racino is doing well despite talk of a casino upgrade. Upstate New York Gaming and Economic Development Act of 2013 allows for up to four casino licenses in the northern regions of the state. There would be no downstate gaming resorts for at least seven years after the first gaming license is awarded. Rivers, del Lago and Catskills casinos all received licenses last December. The state gaming commission can do the same for three winning bidders in New Yorkers in December 2022.
Yonkers Racino is doing well despite talk of a casino upgrade.
Yonkers and Aqueduct are the frontrunners for two of the three casino licenses. It's not clear where the third one will go. The moratorium on casino licences expires next year for Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam counties. It is not known if any serious contenders will emerge in any of those suburbs.
Joseph Addabbo Jr. of Queens wants to get the downstate casino licensing process going. He wants the commission to issue a formal Request for Information package on mobile sports betting to any potential bidders as soon as the end of next week. An estimated 20% of the New Jersey sportsbetting operators’ $399 million in gross revenue in 2020 came from New Yorkers who couldn't place a legal bet in their state online.
Masks are required to wear at some gambling and entertainment venues. At Yonkers, slot players wore masks. In Monmouth Park and the Meadowlands Racetrack, only employees wore them. On Saturday, Jacob deGrom and Mets fans were wearing masks at Citi Field.
