{"id":1785,"date":"2024-04-18T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2024-04-18T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T17:09:41","slug":"letters-to-brooklyn-city-councilpersons-vote-no-on-casino-text-amendments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/letters-to-brooklyn-city-councilpersons-vote-no-on-casino-text-amendments\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to Brooklyn City Councilpersons – Vote NO on Casino Text Amendments!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, City Council Votes on Casinos!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Dear City Council Persons, Darlene Mealy, Rita Joseph and Crystal Hudson:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today the City Council will be voting on the Casino Text Amendments<\/strong>, allowing any Casino that obtains a State license to locate here in NYC without<\/u> having to go through the public review process<\/strong> of the “Uniform Land Use Review Procedure” (ULURP) in the community board in which they are trying to reside.<\/p>\n

We would like you to vote No<\/u><\/strong> to this amendment and stand with your local City councilperson in whose districts the current proposals are being considered<\/strong>, despite the fact that a casino is currently not being targeted for your district.<\/p>\n

The *community and the local Council person should be allowed to either agree or disagree,<\/strong> because placing a Casino in the heart of any <\/u><\/strong>community will have a drastic change to that community for decades to come<\/strong>. But not just that particular neighborhood, as these Casinos will be readily and easy available (by a simple train or bus ride) to all New Yorkers, even the ones that you represent.<\/p>\n

As they say, United We Stand, Divided We Fall!<\/strong><\/p>\n

*<\/strong>We are aware that a new five person appointed board is being created to address any opposition to a Casino\u2019s location, but we are also aware that the local city councilperson is outweighed<\/strong> by the other appointees, including the Mayor\u2019s, Governor\u2019s and State Representatives’, all who have supported Casinos in our city.<\/p>\n

Casino Facts<\/u><\/strong><\/h3>\n

We want to remind you of some facts about Casinos:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. For every $1 that they make, the public will pay $3 to off set the negative consequences <\/strong>(i.e gambling addiction, prostitution, money laundering, increase crime, increase depression, foreclosures, bankruptcies, etc.).<\/li>\n
  2. Casinos never hit the financial profits <\/strong>that they claim they are going to make, it is always below.<\/li>\n
  3. Casinos hit their profit ceiling, within three years, then proceed with a consistent downward spiral<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  4. Casinos make their money off of people who have gambling addictions.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  5. 56% of our population of New York City is at or below the poverty <\/strong>level, which has the highest rate of gambling addictions<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  6. Young people have the highest rate of gambling addictions (24.8%).<\/strong><\/li>\n
  7. Our City\u2019s sea levels are rising or our land is sinking,<\/strong> thus placing\u00a0tons and tons of added weight <\/strong>onto our shore lines in the form of Casinos and the many industries that support them, i.e. hotels, seems to be a prediction for disaster that the public will have to pay, instead of the imaginary stream of wealth coming into the City\u2019s coffers. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Specific Information For Your Districts<\/strong><\/h4>\n

    As a City Council person who represents large communities of color <\/strong>here are some more specific information on your population.<\/p>\n

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    1. Gambling addiction is more common among Non-Hispanic Black adults (25.1%)<\/strong><\/li>\n
    2. New Yorkers with an annual income of $30,000 or less report higher levels of gambling addiction (24.1%)<\/strong><\/li>\n
    3. Individuals that live within 10 miles of a casino are twice as likely to have a gambling addiction.<\/strong><\/li>\n
    4. Urban casinos are typically placed in low income areas.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      We urge you to vote No <\/u>on the Text Amendment and not take away the power of the local city councilperson along with the community to decide if they want a Casino in their community.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

      Take Three Minutes to Protect\u00a0Your Community!<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n

      Copy and Paste the above letter to City Councilpersons who represent Downtown Brooklyn\u00a0and Central Brooklyn.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

      Crystal Hudson’s Email<\/strong><\/h5>\n

      \u00a0<\/strong>dbrown@council.nyc.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

      chudson@council.nyc.gov<\/a>
      \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

      JDesouve@council.nyc.gov<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

      anwright@council.nyc.gov<\/a>
      \n<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Rita Joseph’s Email<\/strong><\/h5>\n

      RJoseph@council.nyc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

      vranaweera@council.nyc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

      JDesouve@council.nyc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

      Darlene Mealy’s Email<\/h5>\n

      district41@council.nyc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

      Mleary@council.nyc.gov<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Today, City Council Votes on Casinos! Dear City Council Persons, Darlene Mealy, Rita Joseph and Crystal Hudson: Today the City Council will be voting on the Casino Text Amendments, allowing any Casino that obtains a State license to locate here in NYC without having to go through the public review […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-of-yes-text-amendments","category-fight-against-rezoning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mtopp.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}