NYC OTB To Stay Open
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- June
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Gov. Paterson announced this afternoon that New York City’s Off-Track Betting Cor
p. will stay open and not close Sunday as part of a state takeover of the struggling agency.
The move will save 1,500 jobs throughout NYC.
“New York City OTB will remain open for business,†Paterson said at a Manhattan news conference.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg put in the deadline and planned to shutter the facilities because they continue to lose money.
But Paterson and state lawmakers said closing OTB would mean a lose of jobs and a hit to the state’s thoroughbred industry.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
