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Originally Posted by freddymo
So when Aqueduct gets slots or VLT's Yonkers isn't going to be hurt? After Aqueduct it will be Monmouth or some casino in Long Island or maybe a bigger Casino at Monticello. Yonkers will build a bunch of crap to accomodate the slot folks and by then there will be more slots and that stuff will turn to crap along with horses
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i hear your arguement , but , the rooney must have a grand plan for all of it , they are smart business people and have been for a long time
that being said , the majority of the yonkers slots players are coming from the bronx and westchester...i don't think that there is a high % of the people coming in from LI , queens, brooklyn or manhattan
i think that NYRA can usr the big a or belmont and draw from people in queens ctny , king's ctny and nassau ctny without taking people away from yonkers
to be be fair on your points a lot of waht you say is correct , a lot of the other venues across the country simply don't have 10mm potential customers within 40 miles that yonkers and nyra have
a case in point , last oct i was at a wedding up in monticello , we went to the track the night before and it was a semi -ghost town , now granted the horses were not runnig that night , but , it was one of the most empty casinos i have ever been in .....that part of NY doesn't have 10mm people within 40 miles an it showed