Monticello, NY – The Resorts World Catskills casino northwest of New York City is set to open on Feb. 8
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Resorts World Catskills will be the fourth of four Las Vegas-style casinos to open in upstate New York under an amendment to the state constitution approved by New York voters.
The casino in the heart of the old “Borscht Belt” will be about 90 miles from Manhattan and will feature 150 table games and 2,150 slot machines. The overall $1.2 billion resort will have a hotel, an entertainment village, an indoor waterpark lodge and an 18-hole golf course.
Recently opened casinos in the Finger Lakes, Schenectady and the Southern Tier had fallen short of initial revenue projections in a crowded regional gambling market.
It’s the company that in about 2 years will buy this casino out of bankruptcy for $150m is the company that’s going to make money here.
Gambling is a disease that ruins many people’s lives… It will bring in a lot more people that otherwise would not be gambling. How can they allow that?
If this complex is successful, traffic going and coming from the Catskills will be a greater horror than it already is on summer weekends. It will be a similar problem to that of Route 17B when Bethel Woods has a big name show scheduled.
The geniuses who authorized the upgrading of Route 17 ( a project that took too long) should have included the widening of the highway at the same time. It’s going to be one ongoing mess should this complex become popular. Let us not forget the inherent dangers of going up or down the Wurtsboro Hill in snow and ice. I’ve driven those roads in winter time and it can get very scary and extremely dangerous.