Manhattan’s out of the running for a casino.
After years-long campaigns and multimillion dollar lobbying efforts by developers, community boards nixed proposals to bring a gambling hall to the city’s densest borough, my colleague Patrick Clark reports.
The nail in the coffin came Monday, when a Soloviev and Mohegan-backed proposal to build an $11.2 billion gambling hall on Manhattan’s East Side was voted down by a community advisory board.
Last week, the borough’s other two other contenders — SL Green’s Times Square project and a Silverstein-backed West Side casino — were rejected by their respective community advisory boards. That means ...