Support grows for Belmont slot machines

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Originally Posted by Cardus

You typed that the area around Belmont is a "dump (Elmont)." This is, in fact, incorrect, or at best, an exaggeration. I'm not arguing about Franklin Square, which, also, is not a dump, nor am I arguing about Floral Park, which is a very nice area for about 90% of the United States. Not 90210, but how much of the U.S. resembles that zip code?

I don't know when you lived there, or when you were stabled last at Belmont. I suspect it hasn't been for a while. If you want to say that the area through which the Q 110 bus passes along Hempstead Tpke. on the way to Belmont is a dump, you'd still be wrong compared to other places in the U.S. properly described as a "dump."

I didn't equate Elmont to a "wonderful cheery place," but you are misrepresenting the area around Belmont Park as if it were Pimlico's surrounding neighborhood.

Walk out the stable gate, take a left or right and you will be real tired before you find a "nice" area. I guess you and I have a different version of what is nice and what is a dump.

I had a conversation yesterday with a lady who does enough work at Belmont to keep an apartment there as opposed to living out of hotels. She was bemoaning the problems of finding anything in a nice area, close to the track. It aint Hollywood Park bad but is far from really nice.