The city received $1.5 billion from the overall fund in 2019-2020. The New York Lottery continues to be North America’s largest and most profitable lottery, contributing $3.38 billion in fiscal year 2019-2020 to help support education in the state, of which RWNY generated $348 million, a greater share than any of the other video gaming operators in New York. “As New York begins its recovery, we are proud to continue to provide critical support so that kids across the state have access to a higher-quality education, and we are ready to step up and elevate that support in both the short- and long-term for the state. “Since opening its doors nine years ago, Resorts World has fulfilled its commitment to be an economic driver, a good community partner, a leader in generating significant and much-needed resources to New York’s public schools,” Genting Americas East President Bob De Salvio said.
The state’s largest taxpayer’s parent company announced Tuesday that it has generated more than $3 billion for New York’s Lottery educational fund since opening in 2011 in South Ozone Park. At a time that the city and state budget are stretched thin due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the lack of a federal bailout, Resorts World Casino New York City is proving to be much more than an economic engine for southeast Queens, but a boon to New York’s public schools.
