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Yesterday, the federal authorities raided a Chinatown building at 35-37 East Broadway—apparently, it was full of 'table games and slot machines,'Chinese mahjong,' and 'large cardboard boxes—allegedly filled to the brim with cash.'

The robbery took place during an apparent gambling game in the basement of a Chinatown building, under a grocery store at 67 Eldridge Street. Gothamist is a website about New York City news. NEW YORK (AP) Benny Ong, reputed to be the 'Godfather of Chinatown' and a major figure for decades in the Asian-American underworld, has died at 87. Ong, known in New York's Chinatown as 'Uncle Seven' because he was the seventh son of a Chinese peasant, died Saturday at New York Downtown Hospital. He had been suffering from prostate cancer and pneumonia. Ong headed the Hip Sing Tong, a. NYPD and federal officials raided a building in Chinatown believed to be the center of a network of illegal gambling activities Monday. Officials raided the six-story building at 35 and 37 East. The Secrets Buried Under City Hall – Gambling in old Chinatown St. John’s Ward, known mainly as “The Ward,” was the landing ground for nearly every immigrant group in Toronto from 1830 to 1950. Covering the area bounded by College, Queen, Yonge and University, by 1900 the Ward was the most multicultural neighbourhood in the city. The building was seized last year by the Federal government from its former owner, Won & Har Realty Corporation, after a raid exposed illegal gambling at the location. Won & Har operated pai gow –.

The illegal gambling takedown raid, nicknamed 'Operation Snake Eyes,' led to the arrest of eleven people and seizure of $163,000 in cash. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's complaint is also looking for the forfeiture of the building where at least four floors were used for gambling:

Over at least the last two years, the Building has consistently hosted a group of illegal gambling operators offering various gambling options, including pai gow poker and computer-based slot machine games, in nearly half of the Building’s suites. The Building itself has been modified to accommodate these gambling operations, including the creation of a ground floor slots room hosting computers dedicated to slot machine games, and the installation of surveillance cameras throughout areas of the Building dedicated to gambling.

Two people were also arrested for practicing medicine without a license in the building as well.

But today, those at 35-37 East Broadway told WCBS 2 that while there were slot machines, they were just donated and used for fun: 'There’s no gambling. They just play for fun.' Cue Captain Renault.

Anyway, arrests rarely deter illegal gambling den operators: A former Chinatown cop told WNYC, 'Once they take everything out, within six, seven or eight hours there’s a carpenter down there, two-by-fours, bang bang bang, they’re setting up new tables already. And the gambling would be on the next day.'

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