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1,400 more slots on a reopened gaming floor
Resorts World New York City (RWNYC) has opened an expanded first-floor gaming area with 1,400 additional slot machines and broken ground on the second phase of its $5.5 billion redevelopment, pushing forward the largest of the three projects awarded downstate casino licences in New York.
The new space includes a Dragon Den area with 114 Aristocrat titles and 48 Dragon Link machines. The rollout comes less than three months after RWNYC launched live table games on April 28, becoming New York City’s first full commercial casino.
The property’s slot machines have been “incredibly popular,” according to Genting Americas East President Robert DeSalvio, who said slots generated $230 million in gross gaming revenue during the casino’s first 11 weeks of commercial operations.
Table games close the gap on slots
Data published by the New York State Gaming Commission shows weekly table game revenue rising from roughly $4.9 million in the first reporting week to more than $10.4 million by the week ending July 12. Weekly slot revenue held steadier, fluctuating between $20 million and $22 million over the same period.
Combined weekly gaming revenue increased from $27.2 million in the first reporting week to approximately $30.8 million most recently, a trend that shows table games driving most of the growth. Analysts at Maybank had called the property’s first week of table-game performance underwhelming; the subsequent weekly increases mark a turnaround from that early read.
Phase Two: a hotel tower and a 7,000-seat arena
RWNYC held a ceremonial groundbreaking for Phase Two on July 22 and released new renderings of the project. That phase adds a 400-room hotel tower and a 7,000-seat entertainment venue to the site in South Ozone Park, Queens.
The completed development is planned as a 350,000-square-foot casino with 6,000 slot machines and 800 table games, 2,000 hotel rooms in total, more than 10 acres of public green space, and the 7,000-seat venue. RWNYC and Genting have said the finished project is intended to be the largest casino in the United States.
A licence built on an existing racino
RWNYC was one of three projects awarded downstate casino licences in December 2025, alongside Bally’s Bronx at the former Trump Golf Links at Ferry Point and Steve Cohen-backed Metropolitan Park next to Citi Field in Flushing. Unlike those two projects, which are building from the ground up, RWNYC already operated a racino at Aqueduct and could convert the existing property into a full commercial casino, giving it a head start on opening.
Bally’s Bronx has advanced in recent months: the company bought the Ferry Point site for $157 million in February and filed construction permit applications earlier this month, targeting a 2030 opening. Metropolitan Park began pre-construction site clearing in February, though reporting by Queens Daily Eagle in May found the project running several months behind schedule; developers maintain the delays will not affect the planned 2030 opening.
Genting and RWNYC have reaffirmed a $2.5 billion commitment to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and a $2 billion community benefits package tied to the licence, on top of more than $5 billion the property says it has contributed to New York’s public education system since opening in 2011. The capital flowing into the project sits alongside a broader run of investment in US commercial casinos, including Tilman Fertitta’s $7 billion bid for Caesars, and puts Genting among the more active names on lists of the top iGaming operators in the Americas by market cap.
Phase Two construction now becomes the next marker to watch, with RWNYC’s converted-racino head start setting the pace against two ground-up rivals both still working toward 2030.
Source: Resorts World New York City
