{"id":115745,"date":"2026-01-28T23:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115745\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:53:10","slug":"a-casino-is-coming-to-queens-critics-say-its-wrong-for-the-flood-prone-site-new-york-city-news-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/115745\/","title":{"rendered":"A Casino is Coming to Queens. Critics Say It\u2019s Wrong for the Flood-prone Site. \u2013 New York City News Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cShame on you John Liu! Shame on you John Liu!\u201d was the spontaneous chant from a crowd of about 200 protesters who showed up Oct. 19 at the Muslim Center of New York in Flushing to protest the plan to build a large casino complex next to Citi Field, home of the Mets.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters were directing their ire at State Sen. Liu because of legislation he sponsored* that opened this land\u2014a parking lot which for decades had been zoned as parkland\u2014to development. It was one of many rallies held by climate activists and residents of Flushing-Corona, Queens, over the $8 billion project known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metropolitanpark.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Metropolitan Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of three downstate casino proposals approved by the New York Gaming Facility Location Board last month, it would transform what is now an empty 50-acre asphalt parking lot in Willets Point into a casino, hotel, food hall and entertainment venue that supporters say will bring tens of thousands of jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/citylimits.org\/a-casino-is-coming-to-queens-critics-say-its-wrong-for-the-flood-prone-site\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story on City Limits<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShame on you John Liu! Shame on you John Liu!\u201d was the spontaneous chant from a crowd of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-115745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}