The Malaysian-based casino developer Genting operates the Resorts World facility at the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens, while MGM Resorts controls the Empire City racino in Yonkers, located in Westchester county. The New York City area already has two gambling facilities known as racinos, horse racetracks that also operate slot machines and other electronic games. Operators who win one of the three licenses will be capturing gambling revenue which previously went to casinos located outside the New York area, such as New Jersey’s Atlantic City and Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun in Connecticut.
A casino in the U.S.’s most populated city will have access to a metropolitan area with 20 million residents, in addition to the tens of millions of tourists visiting New York City annually.
