I missed it when he shared it, but this was shared on J Gary Pretlow's Twitter account, who is a state senator who has been at the forefront for gambling expansion in NYC and the state overall.
https://boardroom.tv/new-york-state-casinos-gambling/
There are several quotes in there from him. spiciest being that he estimates the new table games would open in October or November of this year. I tend to air on the side of government taking longer to get stuff done, so let's say it's around the holidays late this year probably best case scenario. However, that scenario doesn't seem all that crazy now.
Also "As of now, Citi Field, Madison Square Garden, Times Square, Herald Square, and the top floors of Saks Fifth Avenue are all candidates to be the site of what might become the highest-grossing casino in the nation."
This from the guy who's been at the center of expansion since the beginning of the upstate casinos. I'm excited to see where this 3rd one is going to go, and it also sounds like the licenses going to Empire City and Resorts World is a done deal, at $500m each