Steve Cohen has something to celebrate. A community advisory council voted Tuesday to approve a gambling license for his $8 billion Metropolitan Park proposal, sending the project to a state board for final approval. The committee approved the casino with a 6-0 vote. The project, which would dramatically change 50 acres of asphalt parking lots next to Citi Field, faces competition from three...
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Updated Post: September 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM Another day, another step forward for Steve Cohen’s Metropolitan Park. Per Celia Bernhardt of City & State New York, The Coney, a Coney Island casino proposal was voted against 4-2. However, in the Bronx, Bally’s cleared a major hurdle for a casino on the grounds of the former Trump golf course in the Yankees borough. Carl Campanile of the NY...
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A day after the Mets were eliminated from the playoff race, and a few hours after Steve Cohen issued an apology on X, David Stearns addressed the media at Citi Field. He answered questions for about 30 minutes. Opening Statement “Tremendously disappointing season, not nearly good enough. I think we all know that. We came into this year with, deservedly so, very high expectations and we...
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Clay Holmes picked the perfect time to have arguably his best start of the year, tossing six scoreless innings of one-hit ball to ensure that the New York Mets have something to play for on the final day of the regular season. “He was just attacking the zone,” Pete Alonso said after the 5-0 victory in Miami. “I mean he was unbelievable. Unbelievable at executing pitches. He had...
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The Mets will need help to make the playoffs. The Miami Marlins scored six runs in the fifth inning Friday, knocking out Brandon Sproat and teeing off on Gregory Soto, for a 6-2 win in the opener of a series that will decide if New York makes the postseason. Sproat was sharp through four innings, allowing no runs on one hit, but gave up a pair of singles and a Heriberto Hernández game-tying,...
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