One date splits everything written about this building
On 28 April 2026 the expanded gaming operation at the Queens property opened and live dealer table games became available. That is a single line in an encyclopaedia entry and it is the most useful thing to know when reading anything else about the venue, because it invalidates a large fraction of what is published online. Every guide, listicle and forum answer written before that spring describes a floor with no dealers on it — and most of them are still indexed, still undated, and still confidently wrong. This note is about how to tell which side of the line a page you are reading came from.
How to date a page about this venue
None of these require access to anything private. They are the tells that separate a page written before April 2026 from one written after it.
It says there are no dealers
A page stating flatly that New York City has no live table games is describing the situation before spring 2026. That was accurate from the 2011 opening until then, which is precisely why it is repeated so widely.
It lists exactly four table games
The pre-expansion product is described in the encyclopaedic entry as four automated tables: baccarat, blackjack, craps and roulette. A page giving that list and stopping there is quoting the old floor.
It calls the whole place a slots parlour
The phrase belongs to the video lottery era. It appears even in the description of the December 2025 licence decision, where the award is characterised as an expansion of an existing slots parlour into a full casino.
It treats the racetrack as open
Aqueduct ran its final races on 28 June 2026 and the encyclopaedic entry records simulcast wagering continuing until 7 September 2026. A page describing live racing next door is at least that old.
Questions people put into search
What exactly changed on 28 April 2026?
The public record says expanded gaming operations began on that date when live table games became available. It does not say the automated tables were removed, and the operator's site retrieved on 25 August 2026 still lists electronic table games as a separate product alongside the live ones. The clearest reading is addition rather than replacement: dealers appeared, the older format stayed.
Which live games are dealt there now?
The operator's live table games page, retrieved on 25 August 2026, links how-to-play material for baccarat, blackjack, craps, Crazy 4 Poker, Let It Ride Poker, Mississippi Stud Poker, Pai Gow Poker, Pai Gow Tiles, roulette, Three Card Poker and Ultimate Texas Hold'em. That is a list of what the site teaches, which is strong evidence of what is offered but is not the same thing as a floor inventory taken on a given day. Availability of any particular table on any particular visit is not something we can confirm.
Is the floor finished?
No, and the operator says so. The casino landing page retrieved on 25 August 2026 opens with a notice that renovations are underway and that guests looking for a specific machine should ask a slot attendant. The slots page describes a portion of a new first-floor room as open. Construction on the wider expansion began in July 2026 on the old racetrack land. Anything you read about the physical layout should be treated as provisional for a while yet.
