Billionaire Steve Cohen’s plan for an $8 billion casino complex is heading to the final round of the state’s casino licensing competition.  A community advisory committee voted unanimously to advance Metropolitan Park,

The $8.1 billion Queens casino bid by New York Mets owner Steve Cohen was unanimously approved by a local committee on Tuesday, sending the megaproject to the final stage of the state competition in which it is favored to win one of three casino licenses.

New York Mets owner Steve Cohen and Hard Rock Entertainment are among the New York casino applicants who are on a heater, as they say.

A community advisory board is expected to decide if a bid to open a casino in Queens will move on, a pivotal vote that could decide Steve Cohen’s Citi Field plan.

As powerful developers watched their casino dreams go up in smoke in recent days, one man may have been smiling from his Citi Field office: Steve Cohen, the billionaire investor and New York Mets owner whose behemoth Queens bid seems set to solidify its front-runner status after a rollercoaster few months.

When billionaire hedge-fund mogul Steve Cohen bought the New York Mets, he made it clear that he expected to win a championship within five years and would spare no expense in pursuit of that goal.Five years later,

The New York Mets entered Sunday’s regular-season finale against the Miami Marlins with a singular goal: win. That was the only thing manager Carlos Mendoza’s fading team could still control in its bid to reach the postseason.