The unanimous rejection shows that people are worried about a "Las Vegas-style monstrosity" near midtown.
 New York's Wynn Hudson Yards Casino
 It's not a death knell for Wynn Resorts and Related Companies' ambitions for a hotel and casino complex in midtown Manhattan, but it's also not a strong recommendation.

 On January 6, Community Board 4, which represents the Hudson Yards neighbourhood where the planned $12 billion (£9.6 billion/€11.6 billion) casino will be erected, voted against the plan.

 And even though their vote is only a suggestion, the next Community Advisory Committee will clearly take it into account.  That is part of the red tape that, in theory, will allow up to three casinos to move to downstate New York.

 New York City is not Las Vegas.
 Joshua David, a former CB4 member who spoke on Monday, stated, "A carefully planned mixed-use neighbourhood is wiped out for a garish Las Vegas-style monstrosity that has no place on Manhattan's West Side."  He said, "We would live in Las Vegas if we wanted to."

 The board members had a big problem with the proposed 80-story Hudson Yards hotel and casino because it will create a very real shadow over The High Line, a popular park built on an old freight train line in the area.

 The Post says that Alan van Capelle, the executive director of Friends of The High Line, was quite happy with the community board's decision. He said that the building would "do permanent damage to the High Line experience."

 There has been a lot of public resistance to the proposal over the past year, including from state lawmakers.

 And even if the board is clearly against the Hudson Yards complex, this is not a new development; they have been against the project from the start.

 The community board and Related Companies have not agreed on anything for decades.

 Related planned to repurpose the proposed casino land into a residential complex in 2009.  It's clear that never happened.