{"id":71361,"date":"2025-12-15T19:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71361\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:02:06","slug":"steve-cohen-ballys-genting-get-final-approval-for-nyc-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/71361\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Cohen, Bally\u2019s, Genting Get Final Approval for NYC Casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/US:Equity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Genting Group<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/BALY:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Bally\u2019s Corp.<\/a> each won formal approval to open casinos in New York, marking the first time in the city\u2019s modern history that full-scale gambling parlors will operate legally inside the five boroughs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The decision Monday by the New York State Gaming Commission culminated a decade-long process to allow as many as three new casinos to be built in the city and its surrounding suburbs. That sets the stage for two projects in Queens and one in the Bronx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hedge fund billionaire Steve Cohen, Genting Group and Bally\u2019s Corp. each won formal approval to open casinos in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[30931,3339,5862,10429,2014,13453,9,24,56,63,65,64,122,14846,2780],"class_list":["post-71361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bally-corp","tag-cities","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-gambling","tag-golf","tag-industries","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-queens","tag-tax-revenue","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71361","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=71361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}