Why are they singing "New York, New York" at the Belmont?

[MonkeyFunk]

Hempstead is hardly "the city that never sleeps". Sheesh...

[TZ]

1. Thats the tradition

You know, like the New York Giants playing in New Jersey...It's not logical....:) :)

[terrya]

2. I wondered about that myself.

But that kid OWNED it. :-)

[MonkeyFunk]

5. there's something creepy about a kid

doing a full-on Sinatra. He shoulda done a full-on Liza.

[terrya]

6. Or he could have been doing a full-on Liza.

He could be playing for our team in a few years.

[greenbriar]

7. without seeing it, I thought the kid sounded like Billy Gilman

then I saw him



the kid was like age 7 or 8


awesome job

[yellowdogintexas]

3. for years they sang "Sidewalks of New York"

don't know when they went to the newer song

[MonkeyFunk]

4. I guess they're still waiting for somebody

to write the definitive anthem about Long Island.

C'mon Billy Joel! Get cracking!

[Bennyboy]

8. I bet that kid can have any 10 yr old girl he wants tonight.......

and by have I mean in a 10 year old sense......(Minds out of the gutter people)

[OmahaBlueDog]

9. They alternate songs every year (nt)

[HamdenRice]

10. It's not Hempstead, it's Elmont, and one block from New York City

I live withing walking distance of Belmont Race Track. It is literally across the street from the eastern border of New York City, Cambria Heights/Queens Village, Queens. So it's not a stretch to think of it as part of New York. Hempstead is several miles further into Long Island.

While this part of Queens may not look like Manhattan, it's very much New York City -- the birth place of rap music, for example, and the place where Al Sharpton grew up running errands for James Brown.