![]() There were likely as many, or more, local elected officials, dignitaries from the gambling industry and prospective bettors packed into the new lounge area where sports betting takes place as there were patrons scattered across the rest of the casino floor during the mid-morning ceremony. ![]() (He placed $20 on the Seattle Mariners, who will play the Oakland A’s on Tuesday night, as the odds for the day’s New York Yankees and Mets games were not posted after they made their wagers.) Pretlow, Addabbo, and Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy were chosen to place the first bets, although Pretlow made a concerted effort to race slightly ahead of the other two. “We’re not in the left lane yet,” he said. Joe Addabbo (D-Queens), said he has likened New York to a broken-down car stuck on the side of the road as others sped by.īut, he said, those days are over, although the state hasn’t quite gotten up to speed. Pretlow said New Jersey was “cleaning our clock” and his legislative counterpart, Sen. The Garden State’s embrace of sports betting loomed large at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the casino, which sits on land that was once home to the Alco factory. “So even though we’re political opposites, they’ve done good for the state of New York.” “If it wasn’t for them we never would have gotten to the Supreme Court, we wouldn’t be sitting here today,” he said.
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