As the state’s process to award three downstate casino licenses starts to ramp up, a group of grassroots activists who oppose ...

Don’t bet on New York gaming ... resistance. Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman and the Republican-led county legislature approved a 99-year lease for Sands to run a casino at the government ...

Nassau County residents and leaders gathered Thursday to protest plans to place the second-largest casino ... to Las Vegas Sands. The lease heads to the rules committee for a vote on Monday.

The lease for the land will go to Las Vegas Sands, who will still need to obtain its casino license from New York State. Nassau County lawmakers voted to approve the lease of the Nassau County ...

The rare, county-owned grasslands sit adjacent to another county-owned site: The 72-acre asphalt property of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum where Las Vegas Sands has proposed a $6 ...

Las Vegas Sands is betting on Long Island, unlike other city-centric developers spending millions to win a casino license in New York ... approvals from the Nassau County legislature, Sands ...

But before the casino ... Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, who negotiated the terms of the project, called the location selected by the Sands at the Nassau Coliseum the “best site in New ...