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Originally Posted by Benevolus
First of all the people that live there pay ridiculous property taxes, which help bail out groups like NYRA when the state of NY bails them out.
As for the comment about having his head in NYRA's butt, what do you expect me to think. Anyone that has been to Belmont knows that there are some very expensive homes just outside of Belmont. To say the neighborhood around the track is a dump is hilarious. Part of it, like all racetracks is a bad neighborhood, but the facility is huge and the majority of it is surrounded by homes that start at $500k. Perhaps the people with nice homes get a little tired of the garbage and tickets that seem to never be cleaned up and blow all over the place.
I love NY racing and think NYRA is getting better, but a bankrupt group cuts corners and cleaning the area around belmont isn't exactly something NYRA put money into.
NYRA clearly doesn't give a crap about the surrounding community and if they put slots in there the neighborhood property values could easily tumble.
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Out of curiosity who do you feel would do a better job in supporting the community and why? All of the bidders will want slots at Belmont and didn't either Excelsior or Empire say they weren't interested in the franchise any longer without them?