Those are Flipt, which is our burger joint, Villa Italia, which is our 24-hour coffee and pastry outlet, Johnny's To-Go and Mian, which is our Asian Noodle Bar. 'So there's Duke's Chophouse and Duke's Lounge, which is a standalone restaurant, a sit-down restaurant, and then there's the marketplace, which has four concepts. Rivers features a 50,000-square foot gaming floor with hundreds of gleaming slot machines, a full menu of Vegas games including roulette and high stakes poker, and with dining establishments overseen by Bobby Mallozzi and his family. 'Got here at 4:30 this morning, and I'm happy to be here 'cause I'm excited for the grand opening, can't wait to play!' Gina Gardy of East Greenbush (pictured at right in a red top) was one of the first. Some lined up early, anxious to try their luck. Thousands of people were filing in, overloading the parking lots. The dream came true, the vision turned into reality.'Ĭredit WAMC photo by Dave Lucas Red-eye queue at the Rivers, 0600 February 8, 2017 We would be talking about this project sometimes and I would just say, it's just too great, it's just too unbelievable that something this grand and this powerful was going to happen, but it did. Governor Andrew Cuomo: 'Today is just all good news. It took 14 months from shovel to shuffle, the old Alco industrial site now transformed into a destination resort.

Tioga Downs in the Southern Tier converted into a slots and table-games casino in December and the Montreign Resort Casino in the Catskills is due to open in March 2018.

The del Lago Resort & Casino in the town of Tyre in the Finger Lakes region opened last week.

This is a testament to Governor Cuomo's commitment to make New York state ‘open for business.’” You may think that that's quick, but this is the quickest development we've seen in the gaming industry, and you've done it in a marvelously quick and efficient way. And not more than two years from the award of our gaming license. 'We're standing here not much more than one year after ground was officially broken at the Rivers. Rush Street Gaming Chairman Neil Bluhm joined state officials and local leaders for the grand opening. The $330 million dollar Las Vegas-style casino is one of four authorized by regulators after voters approved an amendment to New York's constitution expanding gambling in 2013.

More than three years after New York voters approved a constitutional amendment to expand casino gambling in the state, Rivers Casino and Resort in Schenectady opened its doors to the public today.

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