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State Senate Green-Lights Genting for Aqueduct

Maybe the Aqueduct deal will happen after all.

The Democratic majority in the State Senate today issued a statement saying that it supports the selection of Genting New York to develop slot machines at the Aqueduct racetrack.

From Senate Democratic leader John Sampson:

"Nothing is more important than creating jobs. The acceptance of Genting puts New York on Read More

The Longest Stretch

SL Green, Penn National Booted from Aqueduct Contest

The Paterson administration has dropped SL Green and Penn National from contention to develop a racino at the Aqueduct racetrack, leaving just one new, un-vetted bidder: Genting New York, a Malaysian gambling firm.

The bombshell was announced late Tuesday afternoon by New York Lottery, the agency in charge of the contest, which put out a release detailing Read More

GAMBLING

State Tries, Tries Again at Aqueduct

The State of New York is nothing if not persistent when it comes to adding slot machines at the Aqueduct racetrack.

And it is nothing if not slower than expected.

In what is now at least the eighth year of attempts to remake the Aqueduct in one form or another, the Paterson administration's Division of Lottery on Tuesday issued Read More

State Drops AEG

The Paterson administration has dropped Aqueduct Entertainment Group from the bid to develop a racino at the Aqueduct racetrack, jettisoning the group a month after it was conditionally designated the winner of the years-long quest to beef up gambling at the Queens property.

Governor Paterson's office just issued the following statement, attributed to the "Executive Chamber":

"The Read More

Horsebreeders, Hay

ALBANY—Several dozen thoroughbred breeders are at the Capitol lobbying David Paterson and legislative leaders to "expedite" the bidding process for placing video-slots at the Aqueduct racetrack in Queens.

"The state has been through this for eight years, and hopefully based on that experience we can move forward," Jeffrey Cannizzo, the executive director of the New Read More


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