Sportsmen’s Row (Eighth Avenue, Park Slope)

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Daily Racing Forum
11/11/2010 2:35PM
The golden era of Brooklyn racing
By Ryan Goldberg
(...)
On the edge of Gravesend, Avenue U became Trainers’ Row. The moneyed class, like the Dwyers and jockeys Jimmy McLaughlin and Snapper Garrison, lived in Eighth Avenue brownstones on Sportsman’s Row (in what is now Park Slope, a neighborhood in the Western part of Brooklyn).
 
OCLC WorldCat record
Brooklyn’s Sportsmen’s Row : politics, society and the sporting life on northern Eighth Avenue
Author: Lucas Rubin
Publisher: Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2012.
Edition/Format:   Print book : Biography : English