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Yonkers Raceway, founded in 1899 as the Empire City Race Track, is a one-half-mile standardbred harness racing dirt track and New York state-approved slots racino located at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Yonkers Avenue ( Exits 2 off the New York State Thruway ) in Yonkers, New York near the New York City border.
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Yonkers and Raceway
* Yonkers Raceway, Yonkers
The city is home to several attractions: the Hudson River Museum, the Sherwood House, the Science Barge, Cross County Shopping Center, Ridge Hill Shopping Center, and Yonkers Raceway, a harness racing track that has renovated its grounds and clubhouse and added legalized video slot machine gambling in 2006 in a " racino " called Empire City.
Bret Hanover easily beat Cardigan Bay in the Revenge Pace, also set up by Yonkers Raceway.
# Messenger Stakes, held at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York
* Yonkers Trot, held at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York
* The first Cane Pace is held at Yonkers Raceway.
That year, The Hambletonian was raced at Yonkers Raceway because of wartime gas rationing.
From 1955 to 1997, the race was held at Yonkers Raceway in Yonkers, New York.
From 1988 to 1994, the race changed locations several times, from Yonkers Raceway ( Yonkers, NY ) to Freestate Raceway to Rosecroft Raceway ( both in Maryland ).
In 2004, the race was supposed to be moved back to Yonkers Raceway, however, due to construction at the track, the race was moved to Harrington Raceway in Delaware, where the event has been held since 2004.
The Yonkers Trot is a harness race for three-year old trotting standardbreds held at Yonkers Raceway in New York.
Due to renovations at Yonkers Raceway, the Yonkers Trot was moved to different tracks in 2004 and 2005.
Yonkers and founded
In 1888, Scottish-born John Reid founded the first golf course, with just three holes, in the United States, St. Andrew's Golf Club, in Yonkers.
In 1911, with Arthur Schomburg from Puerto Rico, he founded the Negro Society for Historical Research, first based in Yonkers, to create an institute to support scholarly efforts.
The St. Andrew's Golf Club is founded in Yonkers, New York.
Mortician is a death metal / deathgrind two piece band from Yonkers, New York founded in 1989.
Yonkers and 1899
Yonkers Raceway, considered a city landmark, was first opened in 1899 by William H. Clark's Empire City Trotting Club.
* Yonkers Raceway, a New York Thoroughbred horse racing facility opened in 1899 that became Yonkers Raceway
Yonkers and Empire
* Empire Service to Yonkers, Croton-Harmon, Poughkeepsie, Rhinecliff, Hudson, Albany, Schenectady, Amsterdam, Utica, Rome, Syracuse, Rochester, Buffalo, and Niagara Falls
Caesar was born in Yonkers, New York, the youngest son of Max Caesar and his wife Ida ( née Raphael ), Jewish immigrants from the Russian Empire who ran a restaurant .< ref >
Improvements came quickly and, in their remaining eight races in the East, Seabiscuit and Pollard won several times, including Detroit's Governor's Handicap ( worth $ 5, 600 ) and the Scarsdale Handicap ($ 7, 300 ) at Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York.
In 1950, William H. Cane, for whom the Cane Pace is named, headed a syndicate formed as the Algam Corporation which acquired Empire City and converted it to Yonkers Raceway.
Two months later, he drove a mile in 55. 8 seconds at the Empire City Race Track in Yonkers, New York.
These include three of the previous bidders ( Delaware North, Penn National Gaming and SL Green Realty ) and three new groups ( Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway, Genting New York LLC and Clairvest Group ).
* Empire City Gaming at Yonkers Raceway, a 1 / 2 mile standardbred harness racing track and racino in Yonkers, New York, United States
Yonkers and City
* 1977 – In Yonkers, New York, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz (" Son of Sam ") is arrested for a series of killings in the New York City area over the period of one year.
Perhaps best known for the portion that runs through the borough of Manhattan in New York City, it actually runs through Manhattan and The Bronx, exiting north from the city to run an additional through the municipalities of Yonkers, Hastings-On-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown and terminating north of Sleepy Hollow in Westchester County.
) After leaving New York City, it is the main north – south street of western Yonkers, New York through Sleepy Hollow ( known as ether North or South Broadway in most sections ), before becoming Albany Post Road ( and Highland Avenue ) at the northern border of Sleepy Hollow, New York.
Though there may have been earlier attempts to pull cars by endless ropes, the first cable car installation in operation was the West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway in New York City, which ran from 1 July 1868 to 1870.
* August 10 – David Berkowitz is captured in Yonkers, New York, after over a year of murders in New York City as the Son Of Sam.
Yonkers City Library
Yonkers is the fourth most populous city in the U. S. state of New York ( behind New York City, Buffalo and Rochester ), and the most populous city in Westchester County, with a population of 195, 976 ( according to the 2010 Census ).
Yonkers borders the New York City borough of The Bronx and is 2 miles ( 3 km ) north of Manhattan at the cities ' closest points.
Frederick was a wealthy Dutchman who by the time of his death had amassed an enormous estate, which encompassed the entire modern City of Yonkers, as well as several other Hudson River towns.
Convenient to White Plains, Yonkers, New York City, and Connecticut, the village is a significant center of commercial traffic and distribution.
With the collapse of New York City OTB in December 2010, Yonkers ' live races are broadcasted on the NYRA Network starting February 2011.
The Ethan Allen Express began with stops in Rutland, Fort Edward-Glens Falls, Saratoga Springs, Schenectady, Albany, Hudson, Rhinecliff-Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Croton-Harmon, Yonkers and New York City ( Penn Station ).
The tolled mainline of the Thruway extends for from the New York City line at Yonkers to the Pennsylvania state line at Ripley by way of Albany, Syracuse, and Buffalo.
The mainline of the Thruway begins, both in terms of exit numbers and mileposts, at the boundary between the New York City borough of the Bronx and the Westchester County city of Yonkers.
Yonkers and is
Such judgments are meaningful only in so far as persons are members of a world, let us say a community, that embraces Scarsdale or Yonkers, but is also infinitely richer since it is all-inclusive.
This transformation is most notable in Yonkers, Hastings-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown, Sleepy Hollow, Ossining, and Peekskill, where redevelopment projects are in various stages of design and construction.
There is a bronze sculpture of Fitzgerald in Yonkers, the city in which she grew up, created by American artist Vinnie Bagwell.
This copy is on view at St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, in Yonkers.
Van der Donck was known locally as the Jonkheer or Jonker ( etymologically, " young gentleman ," derivation of old German jung and Herr ; in effect, " Esquire "), a word from which the name " Yonkers " is directly derived.
Yonkers is mentioned in an episode of the show Grounded for Life, where character Lily Finnerty is supposedly going for a party.
Yonkers is twinned with:
Located in the downtown business district is the historic Murphy Theater, which can be seen in the film Lost In Yonkers, part of which was filmed in the city in the early 1990s.
Once across the county line the parkway is in Yonkers, close to its boundary with Mount Vernon.
" The Trotting Triple Crown is made up of the Yonkers Trot, Hambletonian Stakes, and Kentucky Futurity.
It is presently scheduled to be raced at Yonkers on November 12, 2011, for a total estimated purse of US $ 750, 000 .< ref >
Today, Eastchester is bounded by Scarsdale on the north, New Rochelle on the east, Yonkers on the west, and Mount Vernon on the south.
It is bordered on the north by the city of Yonkers ; to the east by Van Cortlandt Park, the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx and the Marble Hill section of Manhattan ; to the west by the Hudson River ; and to the south by the Harlem River, which creates a small geographic barrier between Riverdale and upper Manhattan.
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