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AUNDERS, A HIGH-END real-estate firm, sold and rented $2.3bn worth of property in the Hamptons last year. Calvin Klein, the panjandrum of pants, sold his beach house there for $84.4m. Well-heeled New Yorkers go to the string of small towns on Long Island to throw frisbees on the beach and compare Picassos in their kitchens. They are not universally thrilled by the Shinnecock Nation’s plans to build a casino on their reservation in Southampton.
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Jay Schneiderman, the town supervisor, is “totally opposed” to the planned site. “I cannot think of a worse location to build a casino,” he said. Congestion, already bad on the single road into the Hamptons, will get worse. Fred Thiele’s opposition was gentler. The state assemblyman acknowledges the Nation’s right to build on its sovereign land, but thinks it is nonetheless a bad idea. He expects opposition to grow, and not just among the gilded summer reside
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Construction on the new casino is slated to begin this summer. (Courtesy Shinnecock Indian Nation.)
SOUTHAMPTON, NY After a fight for economic parity that has spanned decades, the Shinnecock Indian Nation outlined its plans Wednesday for a casino on the tribe s land in Southampton.
The project, called Shinnecock Casino Hamptons, has been a long-held dream, members of the tribe said. We ve been at this for 20 years, said Shinnecock Tribal Chairman Bryan Polite.
Construction is slated to begin in the summer for the 76,000 square foot Class II facility, which will feature 1,000 video lottery terminals and 30 Texas hold em table games, Polite said. The goal is to open about 18 to 24 months after work begins; the casino will bring 300 to 400 jobs to the area, with about 40 percent filled by members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation and the rest, for others on the East End, Polite said.