News Summary

• For the past three years, developers and gambling companies have been jockeying to win three new licenses to open casinos in and around New York City.
• For many residents, the plan spelled disaster: the lights, the noise, the crime, the traffic, the drugs, the drunk and degenerate and desperate gamblers wandering the streets at every hour of the day and night.
• To gin up good will, developers promised the moon and the stars: new public bathrooms and new public parks, more bike lanes, a concert hall, a museum, surveillance drones.