Site
The site of Roosevelt Raceway is part of the Hempstead Plains, located in an unincorporated area of the Town of Hempstead, within the Westbury 11590 Zip Code. It is located near where the first English Governor of New York, Richard Nicolls, established the "Newmarket Course", the first horse racing track in North America (and indeed, the first organized sport of any kind) in the territory that would become the United States, in 1664. Before the modern raceway was created, the site was part of the Roosevelt Field Airfield. On the site in 1936, an auto racetrack had been created to host the dormant Vanderbilt Cup but proved unsuccessful, and the auto race was only run at the site twice.
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