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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.

from the great white north comes another

marauder  .......
who might talk alot b does little to see that ny does not impose the andrew cuomo religious preference upon
those that wish to join me on dunday april 21, 2019 at nassau otb

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Track Code	Track Name	Entry	Scratch	1st Post ET	1st Post Local	Time Zone	Stakes Race(s)	Stakes Grade	T.V. Indicator
GG	GOLDEN GATE FIELDS	48	24	3:45 PM	12:45 PM	PDT
LS	LONE STAR PARK	72	0	3:35 PM	2:35 PM	CDT
SA	SANTA ANITA PARK	72	24	3:30 PM	12:30 PM	PDT
SUN	SUNLAND PARK	168	0	2:30 PM	12:30 PM	MDT
WO	WOODBINE	72	48

In addition to being the founder and co-president of North Shore Action, a community action organization started in 2017, Lurvey has been a vice president of Temple Israel of Great Neck since 2014. She has also been a member of the Village of Kensington Zoning Board of Appeals since 2013.

Lurvey also served as an attorney and counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP from 1994 to 2012. She secured her law degree from Georgetown University in 1998.


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Claude Solnik

(631) 913-4244

Long Island Business News

2150 Smithtown Ave.

Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348 

Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidays

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.

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Track Code	Track Name	Entry	Scratch	1st Post ET	1st Post Local	Time Zone	Stakes Race(s)	Stakes Grade	T.V. Indicator
GG	GOLDEN GATE FIELDS	48	24	3:45 PM	12:45 PM	PDT
LS	LONE STAR PARK	72	0	3:35 PM	2:35 PM	CDT
SA	SANTA ANITA PARK	72	24	3:30 PM	12:30 PM	PDT
SUN	SUNLAND PARK	168	0	2:30 PM	12:30 PM	MDT
WO	WOODBINE	72	48

Dear Judge Joan M. Azrack::

The employees of Nassau OTB are conducting a moot court, restaurant review, and customer service
competition based on their personal experience and the testimony of Mr Singh as set forth in the Mangano trial transcript from the first trial. Newsday, a less than reliable source did report on Singh's testimony about his conversations with Mangano,  Joseph Cairo, Arthur Walsh Esq and other
Nassau OTB employees about OTB restaurants. Singh came to operate a lousy short lived Mexican restaurant, Poco Locos, at the Carle Place Branch of Nassau OTB subsequent to the departure of a fine Italian restaurant, Piccolos,  that was enjoyed by the bettors of Nassau OTB,  and whose existence benefitted Nassau OTB.  Your assistance in obtaining the pertinent portions of the first trial transcript would be greatly appreciated. Our last contract was signed in 2007, The lack of a restaurant in the Carle Place Branch of NASSAU OTB may  not be a crime but it is a bad business decision. We wish to deliberate using the testimony of Singh be he rat or sage. We are busy wirking and do not have time to track down the transcript portion of interest to us.

POCO LOCO, The Best In Mexican Cuisine, Opens At The CARLE PLACE Branch
Date: 05/04/2013 Time: 11:30 AM - 11:00 PM		Description: Nassau OTB is happy to announce the opening of a new restaurant - Poco Loco - at the Carle Place OTB branch located at 180 Glen Cove Road in the front corner of the Voice Road Plaza. Opening day of the Mexican eatery is scheduled for May 4, just in time for Cinco de Mayo! Poco Loco is the sister location of the popular Poco Loco Mexican Restaurant in Roslyn, where every day is Cinco de Mayo. Poco Loco is known for many years of excellence as a casual Mexican restaurant offering traditional Mexican fare at reasonable prices. Look for some new smokehouse items on the menu at the Carle Place location! Poco Loco's hours of operation in Carle Place will be Mon.-Thurs. 11:30am to 10pm, Friday-Saturday from 11:30am to 11pm, and on Sundays from 11:30am to 9pm.

The ponies didn’t pay

Joseph Cairo, who is slated to take over leadership of the Nassau Republican Party once longtime chairman Joseph Mondello departs to assume a U.S. ambassadorship, also came up in Singh’s testimony Thursday.

Singh said he talked to Cairo as part of a lobbying effort to provide food at Nassau’s OTB in Hempstead Town.

He got a contract, but kept it for only three or four months, Singh testified. “We were losing money,” he said.

The concession was making about $200 or $300 a day — which, Singh said, “was not enough to cover the cost of the food.”

By Joye Brownjoye.brown@newsday.com

Sunday, April 21, 2019

Track Code	Track Name	Entry	Scratch	1st Post ET	1st Post Local	Time Zone	Stakes Race(s)	Stakes Grade	T.V. Indicator
GG	GOLDEN GATE FIELDS	48	24	3:45 PM	12:45 PM	PDT
LS	LONE STAR PARK	72	0	3:35 PM	2:35 PM	CDT
SA	SANTA ANITA PARK	72	24	3:30 PM	12:30 PM	PDT
SUN	SUNLAND PARK	168	0	2:30 PM	12:30 PM	MDT
WO	WOODBINE	72	48