Mob Boss Arnold Rothstein Marries In Saratoga Springs, NY

photo from Life magazine

In the early 1900's, Mr. Big, The Man Uptown, The Big Bankroll, Mr. Fixer, The Brain, Arnold Rothstein, found Saratoga Springs, NY to be a honeycomb hideout and made it flourish into a casino laden little village. Arnold bootlegged alcohol during prohibition, from Canada, down through Saratoga, and into NYC and Jersey, as portrayed in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. Meyer Wolfsheim in the Great Gatsby, was essentially Arnold, with a different name. Arnold fixed the 1919 World Series, there's a movie called 8 Men Out, detailing how it went down. Here, in Saratoga Springs, he also fixed the Traver's Stakes in 1921. 

 Arnold also built the Brook casino, the prototype for the Saratoga casinos, which was out Rt. 9n, on the southwestern corner of Locust Grove Rd. The brick house that stands on the corner, was the staff boarding house. The Brook burned in 1934, not before attracting the most rich and famous of the era to it's tables.

On August 12th 1909, Arnold Rothstein married showgirl Carolyn Green in Saratoga Springs, at 185 Washington St.

Carolyn was up visiting Arnold at his summer spot, but she had landed a starring role in "Havana" and had to get back to the stage.  

Arnold soon after pawns her ring, to get the couple back to Manhattan from Saratoga Springs, NY. Years later he would become rich and powerful in the underworld.

Arnold was responsible for bring other jewish gangsters like Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Seigel, and a whole list of gangsters into the fold, in NYC and Saratoga Springs. Making of the Mob NY is a current tv show depicting the NY mob scene where he was a major figure of the jewish mob side of NY gangsters.