NY laws touch taxes, borrowing, child vaccines, bingo as a crime

ALBANY, N.Y. - It just got harder for New Yorkers to get stuck with unaffordable mortgages and trapped in waylaid planes on tarmacs. It’s also now easier for some to pay their property taxes and for people to play bingo without facing a misdemeanor charge.

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Mon, December 31st, 2007

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Casino gambling facts:

  • By the 18th and 19th centuries a dice game called Hazard had become popular in England and was played by the aristocracy in private gambling houses.
  • Parimutuel wagering refers to the type of gambling where the total prize pool is based upon the amount of money wagered. The more money gambled, the bigger the prize.
  • The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
  • 1951: On September 4, Frank Sinatra makes his Vegas debut, performing in the Crystal Room at the Desert Inn.
    1959: Wayne Newton performs in Vegas for the first time, despite the fact that he is still too young to enter a casino.