{"id":94608642,"date":"2011-09-19T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/las-vegas-style-casinos-could-land-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2018-11-20T11:15:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T11:15:31","slug":"las-vegas-style-casinos-could-land-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/las-vegas-style-casinos-could-land-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas-style Casinos Could Land in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>\u00a0&#8220;Start Spreading the News&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It may not be long before <strong>New York<\/strong> will have its own set of Las Vegas-style <strong>casinos<\/strong> according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/top_pols_ok_boosts_odds_for_ny_casinos_pM7a8ZucfHoW7l0HFn1qBN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New York Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News is spreading the Albany lawmakers, Assembly Speaker Sheldon\u00a0 Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, have informed the Post that they would get behind the idea. A sure bet to bring in more <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/flights\/cheap-flights-to-new-york-city-nyc-new-york\">flights to New York<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>They would support a constitutional amendment that would make slots, table and card games legal in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Silver even indicated where he would like the casino to be, the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens.<\/p>\n<p>He was however aware of what it might do to the inner cities.\u00a0 He was quoted in the New Post report stating the following, \u201cI\u2019m not averse to doing it, but I don\u2019t want to do it all over the state. I think resort areas are appropriate, and it certainly shouldn\u2019t be in the middle of the inner cities,\u201d the speaker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;Start Spreading the News&#8221; &nbsp; It may not be long before New York will have its own set of Las Vegas-style casinos according to the New York Post. News is spreading the Albany lawmakers, Assembly Speaker Sheldon\u00a0 Silver, and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, have informed the Post that they would get behind the idea. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94608642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94608642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97201631,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94608642\/revisions\/97201631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94608642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94608642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94608642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}