Recently, my wife and son and I went shopping in Westbury and stopped for lunch. I glanced south at an area on Old Country Road now occupied by stores and housing and smiled as I recalled where ...

In 1977, the Roosevelt Raceway Flea Market opened at the racing facility on Old Country Road in Westbury. It was believed to be Long Island's largest flea market, with as many as 2,000 vendors selling ...

Until a decade ago, harness racing was a minor, pastoral sport, largely confined to county fairgrounds and camptown tracks. Then the trotters were brought to the big city, presented to the racing ...