New York Mets owner Steve Cohen’s $8 billion plan to bring a casino to Citi Field’s parking lot will head to the City Council for a vote after the City Planning Commission gave the project their stamp of approval last week.
Metropolitan Park, which would be built on the approximately 50-acre parking lot outside of the Mets’ home stadium, was given the thumbs up by nine of the 11 members present for the Wednesday vote. One member abstained and another, Juan Osorio, voted against the project because he wanted to first see the results of an unfinished Department of Environmental Protection resiliency study at the site.
