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"This isn’t about being anti-phone or anti-technology — it’s about being pro-childhood.

That development came just hours after Las Vegas Sands announced on an investor call Wednesday that it would not be bidding for a New York casino license, even as it said it believed the Coliseum site "should be highly competitive in the New York casino licensing process."

John Durso, president of the Long Island Federation of Labor, representing thousands of union workers, said they "remain optimistic."

"In the union movement, we believe in an 'all of the above' energy approach, and we should not be eliminating technology like offshore wind," said Ryan Stanton with the Long Island Federation of Labor.

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The IDA assistance consisted of a sales-tax exemption of up to $5.7 million on the purchase of construction materials, furnishings and equipment, up to $1 million off the mortgage-recording tax and 19 years of property tax savings.