Re: NYC OTB (349 Views)
Posted by:
toppled (IP Logged)
Date: February 17, 2022 09:45PM
Back in the 1970s there would be strikes at NYRA where the mutual clerks were out and they would race at Belmont anyway. There was a NYC OTB an exit or 2 north on the Cross Island and if you hurried you could get your bets in between races & make it back to Belmont.
The closest Nassau OTB was on Hempstead Tpk in Franklin Square, I used to go to the one in Hempstead many times when I lived in South Hempstead.
It looks like the one in Franklin Square is still there. https://www.google.com/maps/@40.7077725,-73.6792801,3a,75y,198.56h,97.72t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sArLLkagMZ2g4wwOaejuwZw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
The ones in Hempstead & Baldwin (which I could walk to from my parents house) are gone
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