The Wonderful “Clean-Up Deadman’s Curve Day” in Bethpage
Forty-Two people from the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, the Bethpage community, Boy Scout Troop 604 from Bethpage and the Long Island Branch of the Tzu Chi Foundation came together on Saturday to clean-up the historic Deadman's Curve.
Great fun and a tremendous feeling of achievement were had by all. Great job!
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
Then: 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Then: May 28, 2013 (Photos courtesy of Bruce Adams)
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Planning the clean-up at the Plainview Diner.
The work begins.
Boy Scout Troop 604 marking out the poison ivy.
Stabilizing the Motor Parkway after 75 years.
The Motor Parkway at the curve measured 22 1/2 feet wide with a 16 degree bank.
Greg was voted MVP of the day!
Anna, who lives adjacent to Deadman's Curve, thanking the team of workers. Anna has been taking care of this section of the road for years.
Great teamwork!
Boy Scout Troop 604, friends and family.
The partially restored Deadman's Curve.
The super "Deadman's Curve" team.
Comments
Thanks to you all for doing this. Looks like a really nice job. I’m only sorry that I was unable to participate.
Ken
Hi Howard! Great job! Great turn out! We too are sorry we could not be a part of this historic clean up. We did have our representative there to help out. Passing the torch to the next generation. Ann
Oh, WOW! Thanks folks! Sam, III (in Massachusetts)
Has anyone been back after the cleanup to see if the payloader ever came? If not I’ll take a ride over and check it out and take pictures and send it to you Howard if it wasn’t done yet
I went to take a look,it really doesn’tt look bad,about the same as we left it a month ago. I took some pictures,do you want me to send them to you? 9 of them. I guess the payloader didn’t come.
I went back again last week and alot was done since the last time I was their 7/19.some trees were cut and some of the road was cleared better.I thought I would give you an update on that,just in case you didn’t know about it.
I have an update for you. In my travels I stopped to take another look,I met a neighbor,he said that it’s being kept clean by the neighbors and some other people are coming too,people were there just before I was. I’m not sure but I think some of the dirt was pushed to the sides,it might have been that way from the last time I was their. It really looks good