The biggest losers in the shuttering of the city's 54 OTB parlors are not the degenerate gamblers who have lost their clubhouses, but the landlords who own the buildings. They've been left high and dry on rent, and it doesn't look like the bankrupt state-run OTB will be coughing up any cash in the near future. Says one Gravesend landlord, "They never even notified us they were closing. Who does that?" [amNewYork; previously]
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