The final public hearing for Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan to bring a casino to Northern Queens was ended abruptly on Tuesday by the state committee tasked with reviewing it after a clash between community members opposed to the project and the committee’s top official.
Local activists who have long criticized Cohen’s $8 billion casino plan dubbed Metropolitan Park erupted as the meeting approached its two-hour time limit set by the Community Advisory Committee on Tuesday. The activists, who oppose the plan for a litany of reasons, said they felt like their concerns were easily dismissed by the committee, which held its first hearing on the project earlier this month and will issue a crucial vote on it by the month’s end.
