Yonkers Raceway is only 30 minutes from my house so it's a lot closer than Atlantic City. I lose whenever I play. It's not full of senior citizens. A lot of young people, 18 years old.

I find the slots tight. I won only one time $4,500 with numerous losses.

I enjoy watching the trotters at the restaurant overlooking the track. I ordered everything on the menu for 3 people and the bill was only $135. Try that at the white tablecloth restaurant in AC. Your bill will be $400. Unfortunately, this place will never get any rewards for service. "We are all out of bread" can be heard by the waiters.

The poker games are not real. It doesn't matter what you hold. The winners and losers are pre-programmed.

Luigi is correct. I found out from this site that the poker machines are in fact of the "random" variety. I will never play them again.

If I go back it will only be for the horses. I never even knew that "random poker machines" existed. With that said I hit for $1,000 there.

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Excellent for horse players and simulcasting. Trackside dining room is decent if slightly overpriced. Buffet is a joke especially to anyone who has gone to ANY buffet in Vegas or AC. Food court is low end and does not compare favorably to any food court in any casino we have ever been in anywhere.



Casino closes at 2AM. Tough to exit by car if you hang out until closing time. Slots are fine and payouts seem better than in Pennsylvania. Video poker has better pay out tables than Pennsylvania casinos. Always noisy, crammed and crowded - Saturday nights are brutal.



No free alcohol. Service is erratic and servers have absolutely no personalities whatsoever. Restaurant servers are fine but virtually all "non-food staff" are cold and utterly disinterested in the customers. Good variety of slots, not great variety on video poker. No complaints whatever if you are playing the ponies. As a casino, its adequate if you live say within a 1/2 hour drive. The attraction is its convenient location to NYC and Westchester.



Interior of casino is visually mundane, machines are jammed together, small aisles, terrible pedestrian flow on the casino floor and hope you need not have to go to the bathroom because you may not get back to a machine. 5,300 machines and there are often lines to get at them - especially video poker.



It seems to us that the payouts at Yonkers on slots and poker are better than AC or Pennsylvania but we've never seen any published stats to back up our perceptions.

I have been to Empire City since they opened their doors. It was so much fun and once in a while hit for a decent sum of money. I am a big spender on slots. Now when you go to Empire City you can dump $400 into machine and get nothing back which is ridiculous.

Every time there is a promotion, during those hours nothing comes out of the machines. Waitress service is terriible now unless you are near the stage. Cups and plates and other garbage left next to machines for hours, glass on the machines are filthy.

Just because a casino is bringing in the bacon now that it is established do not think the big spenders do not notice. They are taking their cash back to the casinos which are a bit further away, but where you can hold on to your money longer and take part in great promotions.

I hope you set those machines back to a nice payout once in a while and clean up the areas where food and cigarettes are left all over the ground.

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