David Skorton's boy, Andrew Cuomo, Vatican Andrew can't tell the bettors of New York when the real Easter Sunday and Palm Sunday are. See eg NY Const. Art. 1, Sec. 3. Send Andrew Cuomo to his daughters comparative religion class.
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Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Opinion
Aqueduct finish line
The state finally has a chance to make the race track into something productive for the people
Comments (1)NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 4:05 AM
AP
Aqueduct is a money pit. It doesn't have to be.
The money-losing folly of Aqueduct Racetrack may finally be coming to
an end — placing New York City on the brink of a golden opportunity.
A victim of the sad decline of the sport of kings, the Big A has been
worse than a Big Zero for years. The 70,000-plus crowds that gambled on
thoroughbred racing in the 1960s have shrunk to less than a tenth that
size on a good day. Losses have mounted into the millions per year.
The track’s irreversible downward slide long ago made clear that the
210 acres on which Aqueduct sits in southern Queens should be put to
more productive use. Think of all the affordable housing that could
occupy the tract.
Control resides with the New York Racing Association, an organization
that also has custody of Belmont Park and Saratoga Race Course,
operating the three tracks under a state franchise.
Long headed by an insular board, NYRA descended into corruption and
mismanagement. It responded to falling revenues by pulling strings in
Albany to get ever-greater subsidies, culminating in the opening of the
successful Resorts World casino at the track, which pours lottery money
into racing. In other words, gambling that is supposed to support
education is subsidizing gambling.
To his credit, Gov. Cuomo ousted the old NYRA board and placed it under
more independent leadership, with Cornell University President David
Skorton serving as chairman. This new board last week held the first
public meeting in NYRA history.
There, Skorton rightly stated that horse-racing must pay its own way —
and that relying on video lottery terminals to bail out the tracks’
multmillion-dollar operating losses is unsustainable.
Board member Stuart Subotnick referenced the obvious way to cut losses:
Shutter Aqueduct and consolidate its operations at Belmont just 10
miles away. As this page has long argued, the move would free up
Aqueduct’s acreage for development that generates revenue and delivers
huge benefits to the city.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/aqueduct-finish-line-article-1.1442118#ixzz2dyU6lOiQ
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