Manhattan Casino Bids Go Bust

Sept. 23, 2025, 10:58 AM UTC

Manhattan’s out of the running for a casino.

After years-long campaigns and multimillion dollar lobbying efforts by developers, community boards nixed proposals to bring a gambling hall to the city’s densest borough, my colleague Patrick Clark reports.

The nail in the coffin came Monday, when a Soloviev and Mohegan-backed proposal to build an $11.2 billion gambling hall on Manhattan’s East Side was voted down by a community advisory board.

Last week, the borough’s other two other contenders — SL Green’s Times Square project and a Silverstein-backed West Side casino — were rejected by their respective community advisory boards. That means ...

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