Brian there on WNYC.

So you might say Steve Cohen, owner of the Mats, just scored a big win after the

humiliating loss, that is the failure of his team to make the playoffs.

Cohen bet big on the Mets with the highest payroll in baseball this year.

Epic fail.

But Steve Cohen wants you to be able to bet at a casino he wants to develop right near City Field.

So here's the breaking news context.

Today was the deadline for votes by the community

advisory committees on the casino proposals vying to get one of the three downstate licenses

to be awarded by the state this year. There were nine proposals across the five boroughs and

Yonkers when this started, and the final committee vote just happened for the Steve

Cohen proposal for Queens adjacent to City Field. It was approved. Nick Garber,

politics reporter at Crane's New York business, has been following the twists and turns of this

process, and joins us now to talk about this and the other proposals that got enough community support

and how the final decisions will be made. Hey, Nick, welcome back to WNYC.

Hi, Brian. Thanks for having me. And listeners, we have time for a call or two. I hope if you live

or work in one of the communities that approved one of these casino bids.

Are you happy about the outcome so far and how the winnowing process has worked?

Call or text us at 212-433, WNYC, 212, 433-9-6-92.

And the results seem to be that we've got two expansions of existing bedding venues,

the Racinos in Yonkers and Queens, plus a new development in the Bronx, a Bally's Casino,

and now Metropolitan Park, I think it would be called from Mets owner Steve Cohen and Hard Rock Entertainment. So that's four.

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