Long Island Motor Parkway
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Mar 15 2024
Updated: My Long Island Motor Parkway License Plate Collection (3/15/2024)
Among the most sought-after pieces of Vanderbilia are the porcelain Motor Parkway license plates. From 1912 to 1937, an estimated 7,400 Long Island Motor Parkway license plates were manufactured including 6,700 regular plates and 700 golf club plates. (14 comments)
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Mar 06 2024
Kleiner’s Korner: A Hundred Years Ago on The Motor Parkway (Part 1 -January-March 1924)
What really was happening on our favorite roadway 100 years ago? Read on . . . (1 comments)
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Feb 25 2024
Damianos Realty Group pays tribute to the Long Island Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races
Over the last three years, this distinctive Hauppauge building at 150 Motor Parkway has undergone major capital improvements including a tribute to the Long Island Motor Parkway and the Long Island Motor Parkway. (4 comments)
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Feb 21 2024
Kleiner’s Korner: A 1909 Motor Parkway Construction Update
Readers of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle received an update on the progress of constructing The Motor Parkway in August, 1909. (2 comments)
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Jan 20 2024
Kleiner’s Korner: Another Murder on the Motor Parkway!
As a follow-up to a recent Greg O. post, here's another murder mystery on the Motor Parkway that appears to remain unsolved. (7 comments)
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Jan 10 2024
Kleiner’s Korner: The Great Automobile Parkway (aka The Motor Parkway)
Similar as to how the Motor Parkway was used in Al Velocci's 1908 Ronkonkoma map (featured here last week) the Parkway was used a year earlier in advertisements promoting the development of Wyandanch and Deer Park. (1 comments)
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Jan 06 2024
A 1908 Aeromap of Lake Ronkonkoma, the Motor Parkway Inn and an Automobile Parkway under construction
At the October 2023 meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, Al Velocci presented a 1908 "aeromap" of Lake Ronkonkoma. Here are up-close scans of Al's unique map. (3 comments)
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Jan 03 2024
Kleiner’s Korner: The Motor Parkway’s Contribution to Military War Games
The Long Island Motor Parkway, being the main thoroughfare on LI in the early 20th century, was used by military planners in several training exercises leading up to and during times of conflict. (5 comments)
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Dec 27 2023
Murder on the Motor Parkway!
On August 5, 1933, a body was found near the western terminus of the Motor Parkway in Fresh Meadows. (7 comments)
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Nov 25 2023
Good news and bad news: The Brooklyn-Queens Greenway section of the Motor Parkway
There was both good news and bad news concerning the Queens section of the Motor Parkway. (3 comments)
Bob, the plates were purchased by members of the Wheatley Hills Golf Club and Links Golf Club. Both clubs had private…