Steve Cohen, Bally’s and Genting Picked to Run Casinos in NYC
December 1, 2025
Steve Cohen, Bally’s and Genting Picked to Run Casinos in NYC
39 comments
Congratz to the Cohen family and I’m glad the area around Citi will get some huge renovations completely separate from the Casino. The degens get to go crazy and the rest of us can enjoy the rest of the free renovations.
**Now I don’t want to hear that we won’t be able to pay players years from now because by then I know the money will be flowing in like crazy.**
If you have the discipline to ignore the Casino completely on your visits the surrounding parks/ areas should be awesome
NYC is lost
People upset about this but Cohen making more money(and being incentivized to get people to the ballpark) is good for the baseball side of things.
This was inevitable, but casinos are cruel institutions that prey on the vulnerable and contribute little good to surrounding neighborhoods and I think the state and City will regret this day.
Can’t wait to go lose $200 on roulette and the watch future Met pitchers blow the game in the 9th… Jkjk but I am very interested to see what Willets point is like 10 years from now
We don’t need more gambling.
So…everyone in the comments who is opposed to this…you reserve the right to not spend money in Cohen’s casino…Let’s Go Mets
It’s a parking lot now. Why can’t people just be happy 🤣
Excited to have bars and restaurants right next to Citi field. It’s going to make attending games much better.
Just what Queens itself needed, another casino. How’s Resorts World at the Aqueduct doing?
This is just my personal opinion, but I’ve always believed that Cohen bought the Mets just to position himself to get the casino. If the state approves, I can see him putting the team on the market once the casino settles in. Overall, more gambling is not what Queens or New York City needs.
Does every business venture of Cohen’s have something to do with the Mets? He owns my favorite baseball team, but otherwise I don’t care much about him.
Pick your poison : chop shops or rowdy drunks
I hope he celebrates by bringing back Alonso and Diaz
this all reminds me that it’s pretty gross how much pro sports and every local government in general has embraced something as seedy and destructive as gambling
How many people here, annoyed that some other folks might be against the casino, live near it?
Well, I’m glad I don’t live near the area. Sucks for Flushing, Corona, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, etc though
Sounds like a net positive for visiting Mets fans but a net negative for the people who actually live there.
I imagine the goal is for that area to feel like the Inner Harbor in Baltimore rather than Atlantic City.
The Mets will fund the first billion dollar payroll in the MLB by siphoning all the money spent at the casino by Braves, Phillies & Yankees fans. This is 8D level chess
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People are gonna hate on the casino, and understandably so.
But the whole project is gonna be great for the gameday experience and the team. Combined with the NYCFC stadium and that associated development, Citi Field is actually gonna become a place worth hanging around before and after games. Hard for me not to be pumped about that at least.
Jesus christ guys, its not just a casino going up, its a whole metropolitan park. Foxborough has this at Pats Place. Itll be great for the gameday experience even if you dont gamble
Whoever it was, they put the dynamite under the passenger’s side. But what they didn’t know, what nobody outside the factory knew, was that that model car was made with a metal plate under the driver’s seat. It’s the only thing that saved my life.”
What was really missing from the Mets game day experience was sitting down at a blackjack table after a tough Sunday loss in late August and getting side eyed for hitting on 15 by at least three different Asian uncs who are on Hour 17 of gambling away their social security checks
Just what we need.. more gambling
Support the entire project not just the casino.
Gross at the casino.
The Wilpons tried to develop the land around Shea/Citi for years and failed at that too. You know they are seething right now.
I would love to drive in, valet my car, go to an afternoon game, then hit the hotel for a nice dinner and some gambling, drive home in the morning.
I’ve visited a decent amount of ballparks around the country that have a true presence in their cities
Wrigley, Fenway, Oracle Park, Camden Yards…
It’s always been crazy to me how not only underdeveloped but absurdly skelly this area of Flushing has always been.
People can dunk on the casino but you can only do so much for consenting adults. Those with gambling addictions can basically do it anytime online nowadays. I understand not giving people more accessibility but this area will truly improve vs what it has been. And New Yorkers being pushed out of their neighborhoods is happening everywhere. This isn’t something that will stop if a casino isn’t built.
I think the vast majority of people who use these grounds will not even be Casino customers.
Personally excited to finally see this area developed.
Hope the casino has a poker room… those games on a weekend after a Mets game would be some nice cash lol
Nothing like a bad beat at Citi followed by a bad beat on the felt
I just hate how much harder it’s going to be to get in and out of the whole area….the train is great on the way in but hard to work with on the way out already…..
I really think we’re going to see a massive gambling controversy that will greatly effect a major sports team or an overall sport in the next 5 years. With all this online gambling, gambling events within the game itself, and now a casino outside the stadium, it’s just a matter of time before a blow up occurs.
Trumps old golf course in the Bronx?
Giving resorts world one of these licenses is essentially just throwing the license away. That corporation is losing money hand over fist.
So excited for everything besides the casino! I hope there’s tons of greenery and the subway is less of a shitshow. And in terms of the casino, doesn’t the license have an expiration date? So maybe there’s a future where there is no casino (I don’t know how these things work) but that redevelopment of the area is forever. So this is a huge win in my eyes.
The professional sports leagues are going to deeply regret getting into bed with the gambling industry
Ok no excuses. Sign tucker/belli(if the draft pick is that important), alonso, diaz, etc.
We looking at real casinos or more of the digital only bullshit like at Resorts World in Ozone Park?
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Congratz to the Cohen family and I’m glad the area around Citi will get some huge renovations completely separate from the Casino. The degens get to go crazy and the rest of us can enjoy the rest of the free renovations.
**Now I don’t want to hear that we won’t be able to pay players years from now because by then I know the money will be flowing in like crazy.**
If you have the discipline to ignore the Casino completely on your visits the surrounding parks/ areas should be awesome
NYC is lost
People upset about this but Cohen making more money(and being incentivized to get people to the ballpark) is good for the baseball side of things.
This was inevitable, but casinos are cruel institutions that prey on the vulnerable and contribute little good to surrounding neighborhoods and I think the state and City will regret this day.
Can’t wait to go lose $200 on roulette and the watch future Met pitchers blow the game in the 9th… Jkjk but I am very interested to see what Willets point is like 10 years from now
We don’t need more gambling.
So…everyone in the comments who is opposed to this…you reserve the right to not spend money in Cohen’s casino…Let’s Go Mets
It’s a parking lot now. Why can’t people just be happy 🤣
Excited to have bars and restaurants right next to Citi field. It’s going to make attending games much better.
Just what Queens itself needed, another casino. How’s Resorts World at the Aqueduct doing?
This is just my personal opinion, but I’ve always believed that Cohen bought the Mets just to position himself to get the casino. If the state approves, I can see him putting the team on the market once the casino settles in. Overall, more gambling is not what Queens or New York City needs.
Does every business venture of Cohen’s have something to do with the Mets? He owns my favorite baseball team, but otherwise I don’t care much about him.
Pick your poison : chop shops or rowdy drunks
I hope he celebrates by bringing back Alonso and Diaz
this all reminds me that it’s pretty gross how much pro sports and every local government in general has embraced something as seedy and destructive as gambling
How many people here, annoyed that some other folks might be against the casino, live near it?
Well, I’m glad I don’t live near the area. Sucks for Flushing, Corona, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, etc though
Sounds like a net positive for visiting Mets fans but a net negative for the people who actually live there.
I imagine the goal is for that area to feel like the Inner Harbor in Baltimore rather than Atlantic City.
The Mets will fund the first billion dollar payroll in the MLB by siphoning all the money spent at the casino by Braves, Phillies & Yankees fans. This is 8D level chess
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People are gonna hate on the casino, and understandably so.
But the whole project is gonna be great for the gameday experience and the team. Combined with the NYCFC stadium and that associated development, Citi Field is actually gonna become a place worth hanging around before and after games. Hard for me not to be pumped about that at least.
Jesus christ guys, its not just a casino going up, its a whole metropolitan park. Foxborough has this at Pats Place. Itll be great for the gameday experience even if you dont gamble
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Whoever it was, they put the dynamite under the passenger’s side. But what they didn’t know, what nobody outside the factory knew, was that that model car was made with a metal plate under the driver’s seat. It’s the only thing that saved my life.”
What was really missing from the Mets game day experience was sitting down at a blackjack table after a tough Sunday loss in late August and getting side eyed for hitting on 15 by at least three different Asian uncs who are on Hour 17 of gambling away their social security checks
Just what we need.. more gambling
Support the entire project not just the casino.
Gross at the casino.
The Wilpons tried to develop the land around Shea/Citi for years and failed at that too. You know they are seething right now.
I would love to drive in, valet my car, go to an afternoon game, then hit the hotel for a nice dinner and some gambling, drive home in the morning.
I’ve visited a decent amount of ballparks around the country that have a true presence in their cities
Wrigley, Fenway, Oracle Park, Camden Yards…
It’s always been crazy to me how not only underdeveloped but absurdly skelly this area of Flushing has always been.
People can dunk on the casino but you can only do so much for consenting adults. Those with gambling addictions can basically do it anytime online nowadays. I understand not giving people more accessibility but this area will truly improve vs what it has been. And New Yorkers being pushed out of their neighborhoods is happening everywhere. This isn’t something that will stop if a casino isn’t built.
I think the vast majority of people who use these grounds will not even be Casino customers.
Personally excited to finally see this area developed.
Hope the casino has a poker room… those games on a weekend after a Mets game would be some nice cash lol
Nothing like a bad beat at Citi followed by a bad beat on the felt
I just hate how much harder it’s going to be to get in and out of the whole area….the train is great on the way in but hard to work with on the way out already…..
I really think we’re going to see a massive gambling controversy that will greatly effect a major sports team or an overall sport in the next 5 years. With all this online gambling, gambling events within the game itself, and now a casino outside the stadium, it’s just a matter of time before a blow up occurs.
Trumps old golf course in the Bronx?
Giving resorts world one of these licenses is essentially just throwing the license away. That corporation is losing money hand over fist.
So excited for everything besides the casino! I hope there’s tons of greenery and the subway is less of a shitshow. And in terms of the casino, doesn’t the license have an expiration date? So maybe there’s a future where there is no casino (I don’t know how these things work) but that redevelopment of the area is forever. So this is a huge win in my eyes.
The professional sports leagues are going to deeply regret getting into bed with the gambling industry
Ok no excuses. Sign tucker/belli(if the draft pick is that important), alonso, diaz, etc.
We looking at real casinos or more of the digital only bullshit like at Resorts World in Ozone Park?