Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Fresh Meadows

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  May 17 2012

  From the NYC Municipal Archives: Images from the Motor Parkway and the 1937 Vanderbilt Cup Race

  Last month the New York City Municipal Archives released a database of over 870,000 photos from their collection of 2.2 million images of New York throughout the 20th century. I found seven photos related to the Long Island Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races.

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  Jul 25 2011

  Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #2 73rd Avenue Bridge in Fresh Meadows, Queens

  A total of 65 Motor Parkway bridges were built from 1908 to 1926 ...a pioneering concept to eliminate grade crossings for an automobile road. There are four types of Motor Parkway bridges; over crossroads (parkway bridges), under crossroads (highway bridges), over railroad tracks (railroad bridge) and, as part of right-of-way…

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  Jul 01 2011

  Archives: Long Island Motor Parkway- The Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows, Queens

  Links to related posts on VanderbiltCupRaces.com (Updated: July 1, 2011):

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  Jul 29 2010

  The Long Island Motor Parkway Survey Atlas: Fresh Meadows- The Western Terminus

  One of the treasures of my original Motor Parkway survey collection and a key to to the survey maps is a 48-page 1928 "Index" documenting the right-of way, the original property owners, and the corresponding survey plan #s.This Atlas includes the entire 44-mile right-of-way with surveyor notes added in…

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  Dec 04 2009

  The Planned Fresh Meadows Motor Parkway Western Terminus in 1912

  As noted in earlier posts, the final western terminus of the Long Island Motor Parkway was located at the Nassau Boulevard intersection in Fresh Meadows. However, a review of original Motor Parkway survey maps indicate that this was not the original plan.

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  Jan 07 2009

  A Fresh Meadows View of the Western LIMP Terminus

  Over the last five years, I have been documenting the 44-mile right-of way of the Long Island Motor Parkway from Fresh Meadows, Queens to Lake Ronkonkoma, Suffolk County. The most elusive area to research has been the most westerly section of the Motor Parkway In Queens. This entrance from…





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