even saudi infidels must be sble to bet st nassau otb while sndrew cuomo prays
”But,” she added, “changes in management and private-sector expertise can’t make up for the billions that should have been invested to create the basic capacity and performance that commuters deserve. There’s no outsourcing the leadership and responsibility needed to get this vital job done and Amtrak is stepping up to do everything we can to improve our part of this situation.”
Tom Wright, the president of the Regional Plan Association, a transportation policy group, said he found Mr. Cuomo’s proposal intriguing.
Stop scratching on holidays
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.
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Stop scratching on holidays
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.
“I think in general Cuomo’s right that kind of creating some new entity to oversee Penn Station is the right direction to go,” he said. He said he could see something akin to the Battery Park City Authority or the 42nd Street Development Project being created to operate the station and oversee its improvement. He said that modernizing the station was critical.
Mr. Cuomo’s letter also alluded to the deterioration of the city’s subway service, saying that this summer’s track closings at Penn Station would come “on top of a 100-year-old M.T.A. subway system, which as you know, has been underfunded and overburdened for decades and is already beyond its limits.”
Mr. Cuomo had been largely silent recently amid an increase in subway delays, at one point suggesting that he had limited control over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state-run agency that oversees the subway. Those comments drew criticism from Mayor Bill de Blasio on Friday.
In his letter to President Trump, Mr. Cuomo seemed to respond to the public distress over subway service, saying that he would be calling on the authority to find new ways to accelerate its long-term capital plan and on local governments to assist in funding that plan.
Mr. Wright said that it was unclear what Mr. Cuomo planned to do about the subways, but he hoped that he would seek new funding sources.
“We want to see him lead here, and there’s an opportunity for him to be the guy who fixes this and steps up,” he said. “But I have no idea what’s on the table.”
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