Pols shunning real estate donations welcome casino giant’s cash
A quiet push for casinos in New York City is intensifying ahead of a highly anticipated gambling-market report and...
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Casino players gunning for lucrative upstate licenses
Top casino operators — including Newmark Grubb Knight Frank chairman Jeffrey Gural — are vying for the opportunity to...
In reversal, Cuomo wants to keep casinos out of NYC
In his 2013 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo withdrew his support for a New York casino...
NYC casino could get Silver’s support
For the last year Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been one of the largest obstacles to a casino opening in New York City. According to the New York Daily News, Silver has softened his...
Developer pitches Catskills resort that hinges on gambling license
Claremont Partners is working to give the shuttered Nevele Grande Hotel in the Catskills a new life as a...
Willets Point convention center still in the works
With Governor Andrew Cuomo’s plan for a convention center near the Aqueduct in Queens grabbing headlines, the New York...
OTB bankruptcy threatens Queens’ Aqueduct racetrack, but racino project forges ahead
Queens’ Aqueduct Racetrack may not survive to see the completion of the new 500,000-square-foot gaming parlor next door as...
AEG sues to win back Aqueduct racino project
Aqueduct Entertainment Group, the state’s erstwhile pick for the lucrative Aqueduct racino redevelopment contract in Elmhurst, Queens, is angling...
Aqueduct racino is a ‘bad bet’ for New York: consultant
The state governor and legislature should scrap their plans to include video slot machines at the Aqueduct race track,...
2006 real estate deal coming back to haunt Rev. Flake
Rev. Floyd Flake Rev. Floyd Flake, the former congressman and hugely influential pastor who came under scrutiny earlier this...