The Fixed Point Is the Venue, Not Your Starting Place
The nearest documented casino venue to New York City sits 16.0 straight-line miles away, at Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino in Yonkers, New York. That figure is a great-circle measurement, not a road figure. Road distance is always longer, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time for any route.
Queens itself has no bingo venue documented in this reference set. That does not mean none exists; it means this article cannot name one. What it can do is anchor you to the fixed positions of documented venues around New York City and explain how to measure the rest yourself.
Documented Straight-Line Distances From New York City
The table below lists every venue-to-city pair documented for New York City in this reference set. Each figure is a great-circle distance between coordinate points. None of them is a road distance.
| Reference point | Straight-line miles | Measurement type |
|---|---|---|
| Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino (Yonkers, NY) | 16.0 | great-circle |
| Parx Casino and Racing (Bensalem, PA) | 64.6 | great-circle |
| Wind Creek Bethlehem (Bethlehem, PA) | 71.2 | great-circle |
| Bethlehem (Wind Creek Bethlehem duplicate entry) | 71.2 | great-circle |
| Mount Airy Casino Resort (Mount Pocono, PA) | 74.1 | great-circle |
| Monticello (documented venue) | 75.6 | great-circle |
| Valley Forge (documented venue) | 85.5 | great-circle |
| Ocean Casino (documented venue) | 95.8 | great-circle |
| Showboat (documented venue) | 95.9 | great-circle |
| Delaware Park (documented venue) | 112.1 | great-circle |
The pair "Queens to Yonkers" is not measured separately; the documented pair is New York City to Yonkers, and Queens is a borough within New York City. The 16.0-mile figure is measured from New York City's documented coordinate point, not from any specific Queens address.
Why Straight-Line and Road Distance Diverge
A great-circle distance is the shortest path between two coordinate points across the surface of the earth. It ignores everything in between. A road route must follow the street grid, cross bridges or tunnels, respect one-way systems, and often swings far outside the direct line.
Around New York City, three forces widen the gap. First, water: the Hudson River, East River, and New York Harbor force any route to Yonkers or Pennsylvania through a limited set of crossings. Second, density: the street grid in Queens, the Bronx, and Westchester is not a straight shot, and traffic control shapes every mile. Third, state lines: venues in Pennsylvania sit across the New Jersey or New York border, and the road network does not follow the straight-line bearing.
None of that changes the venue's position. Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino sits at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue, near the New York City border, in Yonkers, New York. Its documented coordinates place it north of New York City's coordinate point, across the Bronx line. Parx Casino and Racing sits in Bensalem Township, Bucks County, northeast of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Wind Creek Bethlehem sits in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania, west of New York City. Mount Airy Casino Resort sits in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, in the Pocono Mountains, northwest of the city.
What These Venues Document, and What They Do Not
Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino documents 7,500 slot machines and 120,000 square feet of gaming space, with an opening year of 1899 and ownership by Vici Properties. Parx documents 3,200 slot machines, 300 hotel rooms, and 30,000 square feet of event space, opened January 11, 2018, owned by Greenwood Gaming and Entertainment. Wind Creek Bethlehem documents 3,000 slot machines and 180 table games, opened May 22, 2009, owned by Wind Creek Hospitality. Mount Airy documents 1,800 slot machines, 284 hotel rooms, and 70 table games.
None of these venues documents a bingo hall, a bingo schedule, or a bingo price. Bingo is a specific game with its own room, session times, and buy-in structure, and none of that appears in the documented fields for any venue in this set. The reader looking for bingo in Queens needs a different source: the venue's own published events page, the New York State Gaming Commission's list of licensed bingo operations, or a direct call to the property's guest services line.
How to Measure From Your Own Starting Point
The venue's position is fixed. Your position is not. If you are asking "where to play bingo in Queens ny" from a specific address, the useful next step is to take the venue's documented coordinates and measure from your own front door.
Open a mapping tool. Enter your address as the start point. Enter the venue's city and state as the destination. The tool will return a road distance and a travel time that reflect current conditions, which this article cannot and does not attempt to provide. Do not convert the straight-line figures above into a driving estimate; the ratio between straight-line and road distance varies block by block.
What to Confirm Before You Go
Bingo availability changes. A venue that hosts bingo on one night may not host it on another; a hall that ran sessions last season may have moved them. Before travelling, confirm three things with the venue directly: whether bingo is currently offered at all, what the session schedule is for the date you plan to visit, and what the buy-in or entry structure is. The authoritative channel is the property's own published schedule or a call to its guest services line. Do not rely on a third-party listing that may be stale.
For the nearest documented venue, Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino, the relevant check is whether its gaming floor includes bingo among its current offerings. The documented slot machine and gaming square footage figures do not answer that. Only the property's current published materials do.
FAQ
Is there a documented bingo hall in Queens itself?
No. This reference set documents no bingo venue within Queens. The nearest documented casino venue to New York City is Yonkers Raceway & Empire City Casino, 16.0 straight-line miles away, but its documented fields do not include bingo. To find bingo in Queens, check the New York State Gaming Commission's licensed bingo list or contact venues directly.
How far is Yonkers from Queens by car?
This article does not publish road mileage or driving time. The documented straight-line distance from New York City's coordinate point to Yonkers is 16.0 great-circle miles. Road distance is always longer, and the exact figure depends on your starting address in Queens, the crossing you take, and current traffic. Use a mapping tool for a road figure.
Does Parx or Wind Creek offer bingo?
The documented fields for Parx Casino and Racing and Wind Creek Bethlehem cover slot machines, table games, hotel rooms, and gaming square footage. Bingo does not appear in any documented field for either venue. That does not confirm or deny current bingo operations; it means this article cannot state it. Contact the property directly for its current game lineup.
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