It was a story right out of Downton Abbey. One of men who founded the Saratoga Race Track was a NYC lawyer called Leonard Jerome and his extravagantly beautiful daughter, Jenny, may have invented the Manhattan cocktail. They put her on a boat to England because the Jeromes had the wealth and the Brits had the old world glamour. The Jerome Avenues in Brooklyn and The Bronx bear their name.
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