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It appears the City Council received’t search to override Mayor Eric Adams’ veto of its vote to stop a Bronx rezoning to permit a proposed Bally’s Casino in Ferry Point Park — which is a fairly damning inform of the true priorities of the council’s progressive majority.
Much because it likes to override the mayor, the council can’t be bothered to struggle to guard a Republican district.
The mayor desires the location to stay an option for an outer-borough on line casino — although how siting a new playing mecca exterior Manhattan makes any sense is a actual head-scratcher: Is placing it within the shadow of the Whitestone Bridge purported to appeal to Long Islanders?
Ballys Corporation rendering of imaginative and prescient of Golf and Entertainment advanced within the Bronx. Bally’s Corporation
Or is the comparatively remoted website meant to reduce the quality-of-life impression on residential areas?
Traditionally, the council helps members who oppose drastic rezonings of their own districts, however apparently Speaker Adrienne Adams and her circle are OK flipping off Councilwoman Kristy Marmorato and her constituents, who dared to elect the Bronx’s solely GOP member.
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Yes, the council sided with Marmorato final month in voting to reject the land-use change for Bally’s proposed on line casino on the former Trump golf property.
But (per council sources) Adrienne Adams & Co. couldn’t be bothered to schedule an override vote when members’ trip plans made it too onerous to line up the 34 votes needed for an override.
Councilwoman Kristy Marmorato is the Bronx’s solely GOP member. Paul Martinka
Bally’s Bronx bid is one of eight choices for 3 obtainable downstate on line casino licenses that state regulators can subject, in a competitors that then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo principally designed to maximise political-contribution palm-greasing.
Some bidders try to play good: For instance, The Bally’s Foundation’s did a $10 million deal final spring to save lots of Preston HS, an all-girls Catholic college close to the Bronx park, from closure.
But the entire contest stays fairly ugly, and the council’s retreat solely makes it that a lot more squalid.
