Belmont Park is back: inside New York’s $555m bet on horse racing
Originally published by The Guardian — Sports
The storied Long Island racetrack, rebuilt with a $455m state loan, is smaller, sleeker and designed for a changing audience. Can it create the public needed to sustain it? Henry Miller stood on the trackside apron of the new Belmont Park on Friday trying to decide what he thought of the place. “It has to grow on me,” said Miller, a 59-year-old retired sanitation worker from Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood who has been coming to New York racetracks for 47 years. “For me, it’s too much
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