State Senator Jessica Ramos said this week that she’s nearly ready to decide whether or not she’ll support New York Mets owner Steve Cohen in his bid to build a casino and entertainment complex on Citi Field’s parking lot.
Ramos, who held her third and potentially final town hall on Cohen’s $8 billion casino pitch on Wednesday, has the power to make or break the project, which would be built on a tract of city-owned land technically designated as parkland.
In order for the project to be built on the lot, Ramos, and her Assembly counterpart Jeff Aubry, would have to introduce a bill in Albany allowing Cohen to forgo the land’s designation.