Eight bidders compete for a New York City casino license, with proposals including a Times Square Caesars Palace.

Eight projects are vying for a state license to operate a casino in the lucrative New York City market. Each has dangled the prospect of generational investment in America’s largest metropolitan ...

A Caesars Palace casino in the heart of Times Square. A sprawling gambling hall along Coney Island's iconic boardwalk. A Hard Rock casino complex next to the home stadium of baseball's New York Mets.

A Caesars Palace casino in the heart of Times Square. A sprawling gambling hall along Coney Island’s iconic boardwalk. A Hard ...

The battle to win a New York City casino license has heated up, with a real estate developer and a gambling powerhouse proposing a Caesars Palace casino in Times Square. The developer, SL Green ...

And with casino bids also taking shape in Queens and Brooklyn, there is no assurance that the New York State Gaming Commission will place a casino in Manhattan, let alone Times Square, one of the ...

Times Square, the heart of New York City's Broadway district, could possibly - possibly being the operative word - gain a glitzy new attraction in the years ahead: The owners of Caesars Palace are ...

Those opposing a Times Square casino argue, as the Broadway League put it last year, it would “introduce widespread economic and operational disruption, unprecedented congestion, ...

A general view of traffic in Times Square on April 6, 2018. Christopher Sadowski. One is the regressive “tax” they levy: Casino gamblers tend to be poorer, i.e., less able to afford losing.

I run Sardi’s, a restaurant that has been synonymous with Broadway and the theater world for more than a century. It is a role I relish and a job that gives me great pride.

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 ...

Rev. Al Sharpton and the labor community rally in Times Square on June 26 to support the future casino. Credit: Contributed ...