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Resorts World Catskills opened Feb 8th

January 18, 2018

On Thursday February 8 the new Resorts World Catskills will open. The $1 billion casino is the first full scale gaming venue to open in the area.

The original opening date was scheduled for March 01.

The project has been planned and worked on for decades. It is hopeful that the casino will help boost tourism back to the mountain area of New York.

In 2014 bidding began for the four upstate New York casino licenses offered by the state Gaming Commission.

There will be 2,150 slot machines and 150 table games in operation.

Future plans include a resort with 332 guest rooms. Each room will be a luxury suite. There will also be an entertainment district and an 18 hole golf course.

In 2019 an indoor water park will open at the casino.

The casino will be open 24 hours daily. 1,400 new jobs have been created by the project.

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Starin's Glen Island was a summer resort in the community of New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York, developed by shipping magnate and U.S. CongressmanJohn H. Starin in the late 1800s. Starin's resort, referred to as 'America's pleasure grounds'[1] and 'Disneyworld on the Sound',[2] was the first theme park in the country.[3] The park's original design exhibited the five cultures of the western world on individual islands linked together with piers and causeways.[4] The extreme popularity of the park resulted in a building boom in New Rochelle in the first decade of the twentieth century.[2]

The resort was located on Glen Island, in New Rochelle's Lower Harbor, just off of Long Island Sound. The island is situated between Davids', Neptune, and Travers Islands in New Rochelle, and Hunter Island in nearby Pelham Bay Park, in the Bronx borough of New York City. Although now one island, the site originally consisted of one large main island in close proximity to at least four smaller nearby islands, a number of rocky outcroppings, low-lying flats, and salt marshes.

The site is currently occupied by the county's Glen Island Park, which includes remnants of some of the historic structures.[5]

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History[edit]

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Land ownership[edit]

Until the late 1700s, the area was inhabited to some extent by the Siwanoy Indians of Algonquin stock. The first owner of record was John or Johannes Berhuyt or Barhyt, who purchased Jacob Theroulde's farm in 1701. In 1760, the new owner presented the island to his son Andre Barhy, who sold it to his brother-in-law, George Cromwell, six years later. Cromwell's active participation in events leading up to the American Revolution, in opposition to the Patriot cause, brought him disaster, and his property was confiscated. In 1784, it was sold by the Commissioners of Forfeitures.[6]

Later, the island came into the ownership of Samuel Wooley, and accordingly, the island was long called 'Wooley's Island'. In 1803, Newbury Davenport purchased the island to protect the view from his manor on Davenport Neck, a peninsula of land 50 yards across the open water from the site.[6]

It remained in the Davenport family until 1847, when Lewis Augustus DePau purchased the island for $3,050. Depau was the grandson of the Compte De Grasse, the Admiral of France, commanding the fleets operating with Rochambeau in 1781. De Pau was also Napoleon III's U.S. fiscal agent.

At this time, the island was named 'Locust' after the lush groves of locust trees found throughout the property. At the center of the island DePau built a grand mansion surrounded by well landscaped grounds and fish ponds, and containing hot houses, bathing facilities, billiard rooms, and a bowling alley. He used his home to entertain such luminaries of the era as the singer Jenny Lind and U.S. political leader and statesman Daniel Webster, who met and married his second wife in New Rochelle.

DePau sold the island and mansion to John Schmidt in 1862 before leaving for Prussia. Seventeen years later Schmidt died, and his executors sold the island to entrepreneur John H. Starin for use as a country residence.[7]

Starin's Resort[edit]

Glen Island Casino

Several years later, Starin purchased four smaller surrounding islands—'Glenwood', 'Island Wild', 'Beach Lawn', and 'New Venue'—which he used to create an extravagant summer resort and theme park which he named 'Glen Island'. Starin was the owner of a large transportation company which included nearly every tugboat in New York Harbor and a fleet of passenger steamboats. He used the steamboats to ferry visitors from New York City.[8]

In 1881, the Park opened to the general public, attracting thousands of people daily.[8] For a small excursion fee, steamships carried countless New York families to this summer resort to enjoy its bathing pavilions, fine food and wines at the Grand Cafe, and the scenic beauty of Long Island Sound. The walkways along the harbor were lined with colorful flowers, classic bronze statues, and a natural spring that provided cool, fresh water. Winding pathways led visitors through landscaped grounds where they could escape the summer heat under groves of shade trees. Included among its attractions were musical entertainment and performance bandstands, a camera obscura, a Grand Cafe, an aviary, greenhouses, stone castles, a Dutch mill, and a Chinese pagoda.[3][9][10]

A chain ferry transported visitors from a mainland dock on Neptune Island.[11] There was also a nationally recognized Museum of Natural History which housed mummies from 332 B.C., Native American relics of the Stone Age, and other rare antiquities, along with the first fire engine used in New York State, several meteors, and a giant stuffed white whale.[12] There were also bathing beaches, pavilions which could accommodate 800 people, bridle paths, a miniature steam train, and a zoo of exotic animals which included monkeys, lions, elephants, and trained seals.

The island's main attraction was a re-created German castle modeled after an ancient Rhine fortress. The arched entrance was broad enough to admit a coach into the courtyard leading to the great hall. In the great hall was the 'Little Germany' (Klein Deutschland) beer garden, where food and beer were served by waiters in Tyrolean dress.[13]

Starin's Island, internationally acclaimed as 'one of the most beautiful spots in America,' and 'the first summer resort in the United States, if not the world', preceded Disneyland as the first 'theme park' by many years.[14]

By 1882 attendance reached half a million, and within six years it broke a million. However, despite the large number of visitors, Starin stressed the well-behaved nature of the crowds and the orderly character of the experience, governed by a 'middle-class code of conduct.' His desire was to offer an environment of order and civility which contrasted to the rough-and-tumble atmosphere of New York City.[15] Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the park was that all attractions, rides and amusements were free.

One of the effects of Glen Island's popularity in the beginning of the twentieth century was the building boom in New Rochelle, which had rapidly grown into a summer resort community. This era lasted nearly 40 years.

The beginning of the end of the island's heyday came in 1904, when the Starin steamship, General Slocum, burned in Hellgate with a loss of 1,000 lives.[16]

Starin died in 1909. On January 29, 1910, The New Rochelle Pioneer reported that the Starin family had sold Glen Island to Ignatz Roth, a woolen importer of 577 Broome Street, New York City, for approximately $600,000. The Pioneer further stated that all of the relics of the late John H. Starin and all other property of his estate were included in the purchase of Glen Island by the Peerless Pictures Corporation, which announced it would 'erect the largest and most complete picture studios and laboratories in this country on Island Wild, the most southerly of the group.[17] However, despite lots of press-agentry, the sale to Peerless was never consummated.

Afterwards, the properties' management passed into other hands and, having become unprofitable, the resort was finally closed. The extensive bathing houses were burned, and later Lewis A. DePau's mansion, which had been Starin's summer home, met the same fate.

The park remained virtually untouched until 1924, when the Westchester County Parks Commission purchased it to add to its County Park System. Once under their ownership, extensive landfilling was undertaken to permanently join all five islands together into one larger landmass. A large bascule bridge was also constructed, so that the island would have a permanent link to the mainland and become more accessible to the public.[18]

Glen Island Casino[edit]

The Glen Island Casino building, seen here in 2011

The Glen Island Casino dining hall rose on the foundation of the Grand Cafe, one of the few structures remaining from Starin's park. The building opened into a series of balconies overlooking the Long Island Sound, which made it an attractive dining and entertaining location.[19]

At the time, the term 'casino' was not associated with legalized gambling but instead described 'a public social place for entertainment.' However, the nightspot was soon living up to the contemporary definition of its name. By 1930, when Prohibition was marking its 10th year in the United States, Glen Island Casino was acquiring a reputation as a speakeasy.

At the same time, the casino had also begun to book up-and-coming musicians for weekend dances. One of the first was Oswald George Nelson, better known as 'Ozzie', who set the pace packing the 60-foot by 124-foot hall with throngs of young dancers. Accompanied by his wife, Harriet Hilliard, the Ozzie Nelson Orchestra gained national attention when it played the casino's 1932 season.[20]

The next summer, the most influential white band in the United States during the early 1930s, the Casa Loma Orchestra, drew in the crowds and ushered in the Big Band Era for the casino. The performances at the Glen Island Casino were being heard nationwide. Situated on the Long Island Sound, the casino's enormous ballroom was acoustically ideal for the crystal-clear radio transmissions.[21]

Many artists made their names at the casino, among them such notables as Glenn Miller,[22] the Dorsey Brothers,[23]Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Larry Clinton, Les Brown and Doris Day, Charlie Spivak, Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Hal Mcintyre, and Claude Thornhill.[24]

After the Big Band Era's end, the Glen Island Casino was eventually converted to a restaurant and catering hall, which operates as part of the present-day Glen Island Park of Westchester County—open to county residents only—on the site.[5]

References[edit]

  1. ^Starin's Glen Island. Long Island Sound. A Day Summer Resort. ... 1881 ... Most Attractive Day Summer Resort in America. Five Points, New York: Donaldson Brothers. 1881.
  2. ^ abWestchester: The American suburb. New York, NY:: Fordham University Press & (Duplicate) Jackson, K. T., & Panetta, R. G. 2006. ISBN9780823225941.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  3. ^ ab'New Rochelle History: 1861-1879 timeline'. City of New Rochelle.
  4. ^Futrell, Jim (2006). Amusement Parks of New York. p. 24. ISBN9780811732628.
  5. ^ ab'Glen Island Park'. Westchester County Parks.
  6. ^ abNew Rochelle Trust (1938). Historical Landmarks of New Rochelle. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Seacord, M. H., & Hadaway, W. S.
  7. ^New Rochelle waterfront: --a legacy. New Rochelle, NY: City of New Rochelle. 1987.
  8. ^ abNational Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 1892.
  9. ^'Starin's Glen Island: Enhanced Attractions of a Famous Resort'(PDF). The New York Times. 1897.
  10. ^Illustrated Catalogue of the Famous Glen Island Museum: Collected by... J. H. Starin, of Antiquities, Natural History... Early American Objects of Art and Decoration. New York: Elliot A. Haaseman. 1921.
  11. ^Scharf, John Thomas. History of Westchester County. I. pp. 870–873.
  12. ^Merrill, Frederick James Hamilton (1903). Natural History Museums of the United States and Canada.
  13. ^Collyer, Thomas & Starin, Laura M. & Dell, Sylvan (1881). Starin's Glen Island Long Island Sound. A Day Summer Resort. ... Most Attractive Day Summer Resort in America. Five Points, N.Y: Donaldson Brothers.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  14. ^Seacord, Morgan H. Historical Landmarks of New Rochelle. pp. 22–24.
  15. ^Panetta, Roger. Westchester: The American Suburb,. p. 28.
  16. ^Davis, Barbara (2009). Images of America: New Rochelle. ISBN9780738565095.
  17. ^The New Rochelle Pioneer (January 29, 1910)
  18. ^'Glen Island Park, Feasibility Study'. Master Plan Study. Summarized Report. Westchester County, NY. 1975.
  19. ^O'Shaughnessy, William (1999). Airwaves: A Collection of Radio Editorials from the Golden Apple. Fordham University Press. ISBN9780823219049.
  20. ^Thomas Simon, George (1971). Simon says: The Sights and Sounds of the Swing Era, 1935 - 1955. Galahad Books. ISBN9780883650011.
  21. ^Dunning, John (May 7, 1998). On the air: The encyclopedia of old-time radio. ISBN9780195076783.
  22. ^Jukebox Saturday night: more memories of the big band era and beyond
  23. ^Tommy Dorsey: Livin' in a Great Big Way; Peter J. Levinson, De Capo Press, 2006; ISBN9780306815027
  24. ^ Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture; Lewis A. Erenberg, University of Chicago Press, 1999; ISBN9780226215174

Further reading[edit]

  • 'An 1881 Account of What it Was Like to Visit Starin's Glen Island Resort'. Historic Pelham.
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