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Updated on:Oct 05, 2020, 11:03pm EDT

Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced casinos in New York will be allowed to reopen Sept. 9 after the COVID-19 pandemic kept them closed for several months.

Jake's 58 in Islandia is among those that will finally be allowed to let people in as soon as Tuesday, but there are several conditions.

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Among the safety precautions are 25% capacity, mandatory mask wearing, advanced air filtration systems and machines must be six feet apart or have partitions.

There will also be no beverage service on the gaming floor.

Jake's 58 manager Delaware North and the Suffolk OTB released a joint statement saying, 'We are ready, and we look forward to bringing back our employees and welcoming our guests.' They added that it has even more safety protocols in place.

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Jake's 58 says the casino will open Sept. 9, but the hotel will open at a later date.

Despite all of the rules in place, Suffolk Executive Steve Bellone says casinos returning will be a big boost to county tax returns.

'The purpose of the OTB really is to support racing, but also to bring revenues to the local government to support local taxpayers and residents,' says Bellone. 'And so those revenues that come into the OTB through the casino ultimately will make their way to the county and so that's going to help with the fiscal situation.'

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Nassau County will also benefit from the casino reopening.

'It will actually help Nassau County's finances, because through our OTB, we get some of the money from the Queens casino,' says Nassau Executive Laura Curran.

Long Island tourism officials say the reopening of casinos is a step in the right direction. Now they hope other hospitality-based businesses will get to reopen as well.

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'Really critical to Long Island's tourism industry - we have catering halls who are family-owned businesses for generations that are still closed,' says Kristen Jarnagin, of Discover Long Island.

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As part of a closed-door discussion this week, New York State lawmakers have been pushing for a proposal to build a casino on Long Island. State Sen. Phil Boyle and Assemblyman Steve Engelbright are trying to allow 2,000 video lottery machines at Off-Track Betting (OTB) sites throughout Nassau and Suffolk, according to a report from News 12.
Similar proposals have been in discussion for months, especially after Gov. Andrew Cuomo made an amendment to the state constitution last year that legalized public casinos in New York.
Possible locations for the casino include building one near the Nassau-Suffolk border. Another proposal would introduce two new facilities, each with 1,000 video slot machines.
Before Cuomo’s amendment last March, the state constitution technically prohibited gambling in New York. Due to a major loophole, video lottery machines and slot machines have still been legal.
The current proposals are in contrast to Cuomo’s recent public statements that gaming facilities should be run by operators rather than the state. He also demanded that the casinos be restricted to upstate.
Proponents of the bill say that building a casino would bring money to the state as well as create jobs. According to a report from the Associated Press, the proposal states that the gaming facilities would provide 'superior consumer amenities and conveniences to encourage and attract the patronage of tourists and other visitors from across the region, state and nation.”
There are currently nine OTB facilities that offer slot machines, however they do not offer table games such as poker and black jack. The operators of these “racino” centers say that they would be the best candidates to be turned into a privately run casino.
The proposals are still being discussed in private meetings in Albany, and it is doubtful that significant information will be released until they have come to an agreement and it is rushed to a vote in the state Legislature.