TheBigGuy wrote:
LOL.... it has the potential to compete with the Resorts Casino in Queens. Fired employee / Lover murders in parking lot, riots in the food court over crappy free frozen Mardis Gras drinks and customer suicides off balcony at main entry.

12345 wrote:
Politicians will hit the jackpot but casinos also bring crime, drugs, drunks, prostitution, traffic, poverty, and huge ugly buildings behind the statue; are we going to protest this or what?

Every casino I have ever visited is windowless by design except for the REVEL which is out of business. So why not put this in East Orange, Newark, Paterson instead of turning Jersey City into a ghetto?

MDM wrote:
How many more casinos can the region support? We have them in PA, NY, and the ones in AC are going broke.

Would the one in Jersey City have a special feature? Ferry service? Legal prostitution? or what?

12345 wrote:
You are acting like you dont care if Jersey City gets better or worse. My point is that a casino will do more harm than good in Jersey City and people should let Mayor Fulop, Governor Fulop and other politicians know that this is a BAD IDEA.

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12345 wrote:
...casinos also bring crime, drugs, drunks, prostitution, traffic, poverty

You're acting like those issues don't already exist here.

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12345 wrote:
...casinos also bring crime, drugs, drunks, prostitution, traffic, poverty

You're acting like those issues don't already exist here.

12345 wrote:
...casinos also bring crime, drugs, drunks, prostitution, traffic, poverty

brewster wrote:
Presumably there will be direct ferry service from Flushing?

Personally, gambling brings out my moralistic shrew, I think it should be like abortions and cigarettes, legal, but you can't advertise and "push" it on people. The folks who want to gamble will find it, like they always have. The government involvement is such a regressive tax is disgusting.

slim26 wrote:
You guys are acting like they are putting this thing downtown or something. It's in Liberty State Park. This is not AC. I for one would look forward to it.

This will not change anyone's lives here and not turn JC to AC. It will bring a crowd to Liberty State Park, make some cash for the state, and the owners.. and thats it. The ghetto you seem to think it'll attract won't be wandering your neighborhoods.

Again, this is not AC or some place in the middle of nowhere. I think Yonkers and Queens have survived their casinos just fine.

But I guess we need to complain about something.

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jcman420 wrote:
Rule #1 to any discussion about bringing a casino/ resort to Anywhere, USA: You're not allowed to use the words "Las" or "Vegas."

No casino in the U.S. is like Las Vegas (sorry, broke my rule) and no casino in the U.S. ever will be. Putting aside the fact that that particular city has a whole host of economic and environmental sustainability issues which will likely limit its own shelf-life, the city and its culture are utterly unique. They have never been replicated anywhere else.

If a casino developer proposing a casino in the northeast compares the project to the casinos of that southwest city, you know he's a snake-oil salesman.

Want to see what a casino in Jersey City will look like? Take a look at the Parx in Philadelphia or some Harrah's out in western PA. There will be no jet-setting NYC tourists trying to recreate their summers on the French Riviera. There will be 300 lb. old ladies on Little Rascals with oxygen tubes in their nostrils double-fisting Winstons.

Exactly this. It's hilarious when people write things like "targeted demographics" and "developers are promising". Oh it all looks so good on paper.

You do have to admit that this developer stuck to his chosen demographics when he developed Liberty National. Which tells me that his casino will likewise be targeted to the well-to-do. The high rollers will get golf privileges, I am sure. This will not be targeted to the riff raff - that will be the Meadowlands. How successful this plan will be is another question.

JCMan8 wrote:
I certainly do not want a casino to come here, because it will inevitably attract degenerates and crime, even if initially marketed to a "high end" crowd.

Yvonne wrote:
Atlantic City is now saying in order to save gambling you must legalize prostitution. This is the reason I don't want to see gambling here. http://www.trentonian.com/opinion/201 ... ity-legalize-prostitution

JCMan8 wrote:
I certainly do not want a casino to come here, because it will inevitably attract degenerates and crime, even if initially marketed to a "high end" crowd.

However, a casino is vastly preferable to the race track that I think is supposed to be part of this massive development. Who wants to hear loud race cars all the time? Does anyone know whether the race track will definitely happen?