{"id":342391,"date":"2026-09-10T01:02:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342391\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T01:02:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T01:02:37","slug":"new-york-city-former-queens-senator-takes-job-with-metropolitan-park-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/342391\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City: Former Queens senator takes job with Metropolitan Park \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\nWednesday, September 9, 2026 11:44 AM<\/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\/09\/delete-2.webp\" class=\"no-lazy \" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Image aggregated from Queens Daily Eagle.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789002157_721_Generic-Author.jpg\"\/>Ryan Schwach, Queens Daily Eagle\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<p>Michael Gianaris, the longtime Queens state senator who recently retired from his role in Albany, has been hired to work for billionaire Mets owner Steve Cohen and his Metropolitan Park casino venture.<\/p>\n<p>Gianaris, the former deputy minority leader of the State Senate, will work as senior vice president of external relations for Metropolitan Park, according to a spokesperson for the casino and entertainment complex.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker\u2019s new gig was first reported by Politico New York.<\/p>\n<p>Gianaris started the job last week. He officially retired from the Senate on Aug. 10, after first announcing he planned to finish out his term, which would have come to a close at the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/queenseagle.com\/all\/2026\/9\/9\/former-queens-senator-takes-job-with-metropolitan-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Article continues on Queens Daily Eagle\u00a0\u2b95<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/queenseagle.com\/all\/2026\/9\/9\/former-queens-senator-takes-job-with-metropolitan-park\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><a data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/out\/139307\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Cdc search\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cdc-search-20260617.jpg\" alt=\"Cdc search\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"720\" height=\"120\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2190 Back to Newsroom Wednesday, September 9, 2026 11:44 AM Image aggregated from Queens Daily Eagle. Ryan Schwach,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[1566,5433,9,24,63,18370,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-342391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-hard-rock","tag-metropolitan-park","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-personnel","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342391","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=342391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}