Fleetwood Park was a 19th-century harness racing (trotting) track in what is now the Morrisania section of the Bronx in New York, United States. The races held there were a popular form of entertainment, drawing crowds as large as 10,000 from the surrounding area. 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".
A Good Send Off,_Go!. Lithograph, Currier and Ives, 1872 (New York)
Tobogganing at Fleetwood Park by Thure de Thulstrup, wood engraving on paper, 1888.
Grandstand and clubhouse. The Horseman, September 26, 1889.
Grand Circuit program, 1896 (New York)
Morrisania is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern Bronx, New York City, New York. Its boundaries are the Cross-Bronx Expressway to the north, Crotona-Prospect Avenue to the east, East 163rd Street to the south, and Webster Avenue to the west. Third Avenue is the primary thoroughfare through Morrisania.
Early view of Morrisania from Harlem
Morris High School Historic District