Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Hempstead Spur

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  Mar 21 2020

  VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: The 1910 Motor Parkway Survey Bookmap

  In 2009 I purchased 572 original Motor Parkway surveys and maps from the firm of Barrett, Bonacci and Van Weele. One of the treasures of this purchase was a 1910 "Bookmap" documenting the right-of way, the original property owners, and the corresponding survey plan #s.

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  Oct 20 2018

  Femenias Findings: A New Interactive Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

  Inspired by Wayne Consolla's online Motor Parkway map, our master mapper Frank Femenias has created a new interactive online map of the Long Island Motor Parkway.

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  Oct 25 2014

  Then & Now: The Long Island Motor Parkway, Mitchel Field and Sonny Corleone

  In my quest to discover Motor Parkway images over the last 11 years, I have uncovered many great aerials of nearby Mitchel Field Air Force Base taken from 1924 to the the present.

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  Oct 29 2013

  Then & Now: The Proposed Fulton Avenue Entrance to the Motor Parkway in Hempstead (Part II)

  In 1907, Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. planned to connect the Parkway to Fulton Avenue and Hempstead by a 1.3 spur road. Today's post will review the southern section of the extension and the proposed entrance on Fulton Avenue.

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  Sep 14 2013

  Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Railroad Station on the “Hempstead Extension (Spur)” Part I

  Dick Makse has forwarded this photo of a Long Island Railroad cash fare receipt dated from 1915 to 1916.