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The New York State Legislature enacted its first off-track betting law in 1970, creating the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation and allowing other municipalities to establish their own OTB operations. [3] The law was meant to curb illegal bookmakers and provide a revenue source for state and local governments. [4]
As of 2017, New York has 215 state parks and historic sites encompassing 350,000 acres. The agency's portfolio also includes 28 golf courses, 35 swimming pools, 67 beaches, and 18 museums and nature centers. [5] The following sortable tables list current and former New York state parks, respectively, all 'owned' or managed by the OPRHP, as of 2015.
By the 1970s there were 100 betting parlors in New York City, [1] and twice that number by the late 1980s. [2] In New York City, the thought was that legal off-track betting would increase revenue while at the same time decrease illegal gambling activity, but one effect of the legalization was a decrease of revenue at racetracks.
Prospect Point at the Niagara Reservation, c. 1900.The reservation, known today as Niagara Falls State Park, was the first park opened by New York State.. State-level procurement and management of parks in New York began in 1883, when then-governor Grover Cleveland signed legislation authorizing the appropriation of lands near Niagara Falls for a "state reservation".
Orient Beach State Park is a 363-acre (1.47 km 2) [2] [5] state park located in Southold, New York. [6] The park is situated at the tip of the North Fork of Long Island.. Long Beach, located within the park, was designated a National Natural Landmark in April 1980 [7] for its 2.5-mile (4.0 km) sand spit beach demonstrating plant succession from salt marsh to maritime red cedar forest.
Clark Reservation State Park is a state park in Onondaga County, New York.The park is in Jamesville, NY, in the Town of DeWitt, south of Syracuse.It was the site of a large waterfall formed by melting glacial ice at the end of the last Ice Age; the plunge basin at the base of the old falls is now a small lake.
Sojourner Truth State Park is a 508-acre (2.06 km 2) state park under construction in Ulster County, New York, to the north of Kingston, bounded by the Hudson River to its east and New York State Route 32 on its west.
Haverstraw Beach State Park is a 73-acre (0.30 km 2) state park located in the Haverstraw, New York.The park is included within the Palisades Interstate Park system [2] and is functionally part of a continuous complex of parks that also includes Rockland Lake State Park, Hook Mountain State Park, and Nyack Beach State Park.