Brooklyn's Sportsmen's Row

In an era when horse racing reigned supreme and Brooklyn was at its very center, a remarkable collection of turf legends came to reside along one small stretch of northern Eighth Avenue in the exclusive neighborhood of Park Slope. Here, along Sportsmen�s Row, the lives of the sportsmen and those of their neighbors�men of prominence and distinction in theater, law, industry and politics�came together in surprising and unexpected ways. Though the public saw a block dominated by the celebrities of the age, behind the closed doors of Sportsmen�s
Row a more subtle narrative played itself out: of infidelity, gambling, excess and�fame aside�a world strictly ordered and preordained by social class.