Tag: Harbor Hill Estate
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Oct 17 2023
Hold the Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023 7 pm- Special Presentation at the Fall Meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society
Join author Paul Mateyunas to discuss the Gilded Age and the estates and country homes of Long Island.
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Dec 28 2022
Greg O’s Garage: The 1930 Motor Parkway license plate/season ticket holders Part 3
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum has forwarded lists of people who purchased Long Island Motor Parkway season tickets and license plates over an eight-year period (1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 1930, 1931 and 1932.) These " Who's Who" lists total over 700 prominent Long Islanders.
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Dec 13 2022
Greg O’s Garage: Clarence Mackay’s Harbor Hill estate in Roslyn (now East Hills)
Clarence Mackay's Harbor Hill was one of the country's greatest estates ever constructed. We'll look at the estate's outbuildings and locations owned by this successful businessman and a director of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Apr 22 2022
Earth Day Weekend was celebrated with the clean-up of the Mackay Estate Gate Lodge
In celebration of 2022 Earth Day Weekend, a group of members of the Roslyn Landmark Society, Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society and residents of East Hills and Roslyn cleaned up debris and planted pansies around the Mackay Estate Gate Lodge in East Hills.
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Apr 05 2022
Greg O’s Garage: HBO’s The Gilded Age, Long Island, The Vanderbilts and Stanford White Part 3
HBO's excellent new series 'The Gilded Age' has many connections, real and fictional, to NYC, Long Island and the Vanderbilt family.
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Mar 08 2022
Greg O’s Garage: The Great Wall of East Hills and Long Island Motor Parkway director Clarence Mackay
A recently re-discovered driveway remnant of Clarence Mackay's Harbor Hill has finally been documented
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Oct 06 2021
Greg O’s Garage: A 1906 Nassau County Map
An early, unique map of Nassau County
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Oct 28 2020
The Roslyn Country Home of a 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race Spectator- Clarence Mackay
As a friend of William k. Vanderbilt, Jr. and a member of high society, Clarence Mackay had a premium seat to watch the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race. With the assistance of master mapper Frank Femenias, the Roslyn (now East Hills) location of Mackay's long demolished Harbor Hill estate is explored…
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Nov 25 2017
North Hempstead History: Newsday “Gatekeepers of History”
Village plans to use a $193,000 donation to help restore historic structure on 600-acre country estate of the late Clarence Mackay.
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Aug 27 2016
Vanderbilt Cup Racers on Glen Cove Road & Old Westbury Road & Special Exhibit “Images of East Hills”
My initial interest in the Vanderbilt Cup Races was the discovery that Glen Cove Road near my home in East Hills was part of the courses for both the 1905 and 1906 races. Below are some photos of the Vanderbilt Cup Race drivers on Glen Cove Road and Old Westbury…
Another very nice fine!