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NEW YORK – Resorts World plans to open New York City’s first legal table games casino next week.<\/p>\n
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What we know:<\/p>\n
The company announced its plans on Tuesday. The opening hinges on final approval from the New York Gaming Commission, which officials expect to happen sometime this week.<\/p>\n
Resorts World already operates a large video lottery terminal casino at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park. This $5.5 billion expansion would make it a full-scale casino.<\/p>\n
RELATED: New York approves 3 downstate casinos<\/a><\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “We are ready to welcome New Yorkers to this exciting new experience,” said Robert DeSalvio, President of Genting Americas East. “\u2026This is a transformational moment for Resorts World New York City, and we cannot wait to share it with our fellow New Yorkers.”<\/p>\n By the numbers:<\/p>\n The casino will feature more than 240 table games, including blackjack, craps, baccarat and roulette, as well as thousands of slot machines.<\/p>\n DeSalvio said he expects the casino to bring thousands of jobs to the area over the next several years.<\/p>\n Other casinos coming to New York City <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Resorts World’s Queens casino is not the only full-scale casino coming to New York City soon. In December, the New York State Gaming Commission approved three locations, including a Bally’s location on land next to the former Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point in the Bronx, and a casino and entertainment center near Citi Field, backed by Mets owner Steve Cohen.<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this story is from Resorts World New York City and previous FOX 5 NY reports.<\/p>\n Entertainment<\/a>New York City<\/a>Ozone Park<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK – Resorts World plans to open New York City’s first legal table games casino next week.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[157,9,12,56,63,65,64,29389,122,618],"class_list":{"0":"post-205515","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-ny","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-nyc-headlines","14":"tag-nyc-news","15":"tag-ozone-park","16":"tag-queens","17":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205515","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=205515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}