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Posted by SLRT on Tue Jun 19 15:47:54 2012, in response to Re: IND Pitkin Avenue Extension - map, posted by Joe Saitta on Tue Jun 19 15:22:59 2012. From Wikipedia..."Operating near the site of a former conduit of the Brooklyn Water Works that brought water from Long Island to the Ridgewood Reservoir, Aqueduct Racetrack opened on September 27, 1894 by the Queens County Jockey Club. The facility was expanded and a new clubhouse was constructed before the 1941 summer meet. In 1955, the Greater New York Association took over Aqueduct [...]" That implies that it was owned by the Queens County Jockey Club in the 1930s and '40s. |