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In its second year, the Scarsdale Handicap was run as the Westchester Handicap before reverting to its original name in 1920. In 1942, Empire City Racetrack terminated flat racing and the facility reverted to hosting only harness racing events. After that, the Scarsdale Handicap was run at Jamaica Race Course in Jamaica, Queens, New York.
As of 2000 Scarsdale was a favorite location for Japanese expatriates working in the US. According to Lisa W. Foderaro of The New York Times it was well known in Japan as a place with good housing stock and schools. [24] By 1991, many Japanese businesspeople with work assignments in New York City chose to move en masse to Scarsdale. [25]
Aqueduct is the only racetrack located within New York City limits. Its racing meets are usually from late October/early November through April. The racetrack is located adjacent to a casino called Resorts World New York City. The track itself has three courses. The main track (dirt) has a circumference of 1 + 1 ⁄ 8 miles (1.8 km). Inside of ...
The club was formed as a Jewish country club [1] [2] in 1916 by a group of businessmen who had acquired the land a year earlier from a smaller, financially strained club. . Renowned golf course designer A. W. Tillinghast was brought in to redesign the seven existing holes and construct 11 new on
The Scarsdale Woman's Club was organized in 1918, and one year later [12] they bought [13] and began publishing the paper. They sold it about 40 years later. [12] From 1980 until his death in 1989, William H. White "was the owner and publisher of the Scarsdale Inquirer." [6] He was succeeded by his daughter Deborah. [6]
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The racetrack was built by a group of prominent businessmen from the New York City area who formed the Coney Island Jockey Club in 1879. Led by Leonard Jerome, James R. Keene, and the track's president, William Kissam Vanderbilt, the Club held seasonal race cards at nearby Prospect Park fairgrounds until construction of the new race course was completed.