Roosevelt Raceway (Long Island)
Nothing leftNothing left No longer racing, and nothing of the track remains.
- The 1962 season finale drew 6,500 spectators and 350 cars
- Raced
- 1962-64
- State
- New York
- What's left
- The site was redeveloped and nothing of the strip remains.
- First race
- 1962
- Track
- 1/8 mile
- Surface
- Paved
- Location
- Parking lot at Roosevelt Raceway
- Elevation
- 105 ft (32 m)
- Coordinates
- 40.73989, -73.59603
Roosevelt Raceway, the well-known harness racing track, paved a new eighth-mile drag strip on one of its parking lots. In 1962 it held weekly Sunday races with electronic timing. The season’s last race drew 6,500 spectators and 350 cars.
