first ever full-fledged casino <\/a>officially threw open its doors Tuesday.<\/p>\nResorts World New York City, which has already been licensed to\u00a0operate slot games\u00a0at its Queens compound for more than a decade, will now offer up over 240 table games as part of its recent multi-billion dollar expansion. <\/p>\n
The Big Apple\u2019s first ever table games casino officially threw open its doors Tuesday with a ceremonial first roll of the dice. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cGambling is terrible, it destroys people. I\u2019m here to get destroyed,\u201d Kenny Callis, 45, a construction worker from Brooklyn, quipped to The Post as he eagerly arrived for the launch of the live table games.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going in today, I\u2019m going to play blackjack and roulette,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The entire third floor of the facility, which is located next to Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, now features blackjack, craps, baccarat and roulette \u2014 as well as the thousands of already existing slot machines.<\/p>\n
Queens-bred rapper\u00a0Nas and a \u201cwho\u2019s who\u201d of local elected officials were on hand for the grand opening ceremony.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are all in,\u201d KT Lim, chairman of the Genting-owned Resorts World, declared as he rolled the dice. <\/p>\n
The entire third floor of the facility, which is located next to Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, will now feature blackjack, craps, baccarat and roulette. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n
The casino has drawn mixed reactions from the public Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n
Owners of Resorts World, a Malaysian-headquartered company, said the expansion was creating well over 1,200 new jobs for the city, including 950 new table-game dealers.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are changing the landscape of New York City with a building that will never close. This is literally going to be the world\u2019s largest casino,\u201d said Kevin Jones, the casino\u2019s chief strategy officer. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is historic. This is going to be a tectonic shift.\u201d<\/p>\n
Resorts World, a Malaysian-headquartered company, said the expansion is creating well over 1,200 new jobs for the city, including 950 new table-game dealers. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n
The casino has already had slot machines for over a decade. Stephen Yang for NY Post<\/p>\n
Democratic Assemblywoman\u00a0Stacey Pheffer Amato was among those to hail the expansion, declaring Queens was now the borough to be. <\/p>\n
\u201cI like to gamble. A great steakhouse with parking, here? I like to have a drink. Live music? A great cold drink right here? This is a game changer, locally,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are the borough to be at now! We are the destination.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Time to deal! With a ceremonial first roll of the dice, the Big Apple\u2019s first ever full-fledged casino…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28060,2026,10429,57,9,56,63,65,64,122,58],"class_list":["post-212933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-aqueduct","tag-casino","tag-gambling","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-queens","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212933","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=212933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}