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THE 411 ON 914 //
DID YOU KNOW?
The Jerome Park racetrack in Fordham—once part of Westchester—was the original home of the Belmont Stakes. The track was built by Leonard W. Jerome, a prominent New York stock speculator and sportsman, and financier August Belmont in 1866 and held the Stakes until 1889. City officials later bought the venue in 1894 and built the Jerome Park Reservoir, a major water supply for New York City.
// DanRobbins
Four Questions for...
David Harbour
You may have seen Westchester native and actor David Harbour in Revolutionary Road, Brokeback Mountain, and Quantum of Solace. This month, you can see him in two roles that couldn’t be more disparate: as Bassanio in Broadway’s The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, which is scheduled to close January 9, and as D.A. Scanlon in The Green Hornet, which opens January 14. We caught up with him to ask him how he can go from Shakespearean deal-making to comic-book crime-fighting.
You grew up in White Plains and Armonk. Did you start acting there? Yes. I was the Tin Man in Ridgeway Elementary when I was in kindergar-
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