Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Fleetwood Park Racetrack

Fleetwood Park Racetrack

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/January 14, 2024 by - Dank (push to talk) 00:59, 2 December 2023 (UTC)



Fleetwood Park was a 19th-century harness racing track in the Bronx, New York, United States. The races were a popular form of entertainment, drawing crowds as large as 10,000. The one-mile (1.6 km) course described an unusual shape, with four turns in one direction and one in the other. For the last five years of operation, Fleetwood was part of trotting's Grand Circuit, one travel guide calling it "the most famous trotting track in the country". The track operated under several managements between 1870 and 1898, most notably the New York Driving Club, consisting of many wealthy New York businessmen, including members of the Vanderbilt and Rockefeller families as well as former US president Ulysses S. Grant and Robert Bonner, owner of the New York Ledger. Economic pressures forced the track to close in 1898, and within two years the property was being subdivided into residential building lots. The meandering route of modern 167th Street runs along a portion of the old racecourse.
 * Most recent similar article(s): none that I'm aware of
 * Main editors: RoySmith
 * Promoted: October 29, 2023
 * Reasons for nomination: This is my first FA
 * Support as nominator. RoySmith (talk) 01:09, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Coord comment: looking good for January. The upper limit is 1025 characters; I added "the Bronx, New York, United States", and then trimmed this one to 1013. - Dank (push to talk) 14:56, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking January 14 for this one; let me know if that doesn't work for you. - Dank (push to talk) 16:17, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
 * That's fine; I have no particular preference for a date. Thank you for taking care of this for me.  RoySmith (talk) 16:35, 28 November 2023 (UTC)