{"id":156320,"date":"2026-03-07T18:40:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156320\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:40:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:40:31","slug":"hard-rock-casino-coming-to-queens-carries-high-stakes-for-its-working-class-immigrant-neighbors-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/156320\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Rock casino coming to Queens carries high stakes for its working-class immigrant neighbors \u2014 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nSaturday, March 7, 2026 1:20 PM<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/delete-17-375x225.jpg\" class=\"no-lazy\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image aggregated from The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nytimes.com.jpg\"\/>Anna Kod\u00e9, The New York Times\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>For years, a vast slab of land in Queens has been neglected. Surrounding Citi Field, home of the Mets, most of it is taken up by parking lots.<\/p>\n<p>Technically, the land was, until recently, designated as parkland, part of the nearly 900-acre Flushing Meadows Corona Park.<\/p>\n<p>But last year the city separated much of it from the park to allow for commercial use, making way for one of New York\u2019s three newly approved casinos. Backed by $8 billion in funding from Hard Rock and New York Mets owner Steve Cohen, the planned Hard Rock Hotel &amp; Casino Metropolitan Park site promises 5,000 slot machines and 375 live dealer tables.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, March 7, 2026 1:20 PM Image aggregated from The New York Times. Anna Kod\u00e9, The New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-156320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156320","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=156320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}