Companies are leasing more floors in office towers even before the buildings fill up again with live human workers.As daily foot traffic of 350,000 approaches pre-pandemic levels, the last thing the “Crossroads of the World” needs is casino gambling.
The hocus-pocus is being pushed by the usual suspects — real estate and hotel companies and labor unions — and egged on by Gov.
Kathy Hochul, who might immediately lift the statewide ban on new casinos which is currently in effect until 2023.It’s a snake-oil gambit that will come up snake eyes for Times Square and the public.
What Times Square needs is more cops — not slots.If visitors want to gamble, they can wager $23.99 on Bubba Gump’s industrial-grade shrimp — or on getting photographed with Elmo without getting taken to the cleaners.Let’s start with the obvious: In a world awash in casinos, including in the US, and the online betting boom, why does any gambler need to go to Times Square?
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