Visiting Belmont - Need help

blackthroatedwind · #1 06-02-2011, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Cardus

If you absolutely cannot stay in Manhattan, try to get into the Garden City Hotel if you can (which is expensive). It is nice, and close, to Belmont Park.

And almost certainly sold out.

Storm Cadet · #2 06-02-2011, 11:00 AM

It is sold out! as is the Long Island-Marriott nearby!

slotdirt · #3 06-02-2011, 11:05 AM

I think it's great to be near the track and all, but if you're coming from far away (and I'm assuming that Rootdog is given how often he plays SoCal racing), there's no reason NOT to stay in the city for Belmont weekend.

Oh, and the train is absolutely the way to go. If one goes early, there's virtually zero line, and with a Triple Crown not on the line, the crowd will be in the 60-ish thousand range and not 100k plus (as it was in, say, 2008), and one shouldn't have to wait too terribly long for the LIRR postrace.

Rootdog1 · #4 06-02-2011, 11:12 AM

Flying in from Kentucky, and have been to the city many times but just never made it to Belmont. I was supposed to go last year as I named a race on the Belmont Stakes undercard by winning an auction for a non-profit but something came up and missed it. I think I will stay in the city close to Penn station...sounds like the train is the way to go. If Shack wins, I will be going back to the city in a Limo!

cal828 · #5 06-02-2011, 01:45 PM

Can you get to Belmont from Grand Central or do you have to go to Penn Station? Stayed in a small, but nice hotel called the Affinity 50 which is fairly close to Grand Central last time I was in NYC.

slotdirt · #6 06-02-2011, 01:49 PM

It's a direct from Penn Station.

philcski · #7 06-02-2011, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by cal828

Can you get to Belmont from Grand Central or do you have to go to Penn Station? Stayed in a small, but nice hotel called the Affinity 50 which is fairly close to Grand Central last time I was in NYC.

No. But what you can do, to avoid backtracking, is taking the 7 train from GCT to Woodside-61st St and switch to LIRR there.

trackrat59 · #8 06-02-2011, 09:49 PM

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Originally Posted by philcski

No. But what you can do, to avoid backtracking, is taking the 7 train from GCT to Woodside-61st St and switch to LIRR there.

Clear as mud.

Attempting to follow these directions should put me in Connecticut sometime around the 5th race.

I've been planning to go to Belmont on a Saturday over the next few weeks. I will be coming up by train from Maryland. Once I get to Grand Central Station or Penn Station, have to find out which, where do I go from there?

Thanks

philcski · #9 06-02-2011, 11:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Cardus

Phil, you're outthinking the room here, unless Cal28 is intimate with the NYC subway system.

Just get to Penn Station and proceed.

I guess the good news is if you go the wrong way on the 7 train is you are only going two stops

Transportation efficiency is a nervous tick for me. I hate wasting time by taking the longer route.