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Apr 30 2012
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Highlights and Blog Archives for April 2012
VanderbiltCupRaces.com attained the second highest monthly visitors in its history (7,394). The daily unique visitor average of 246 represented a 21% increase over April 2010.
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Apr 28 2012
The Hempstead Plains Motor Parkway Bridge Near Bloomingdale Road
Tim Ivers: "Howard, the 1932 Hagstrom Map shows an overpass over the LIMP (Bloomingdale Road extension) which connected with Hempstead Tpke. The overpass is about halfway between Jerusalem Avenue on the west and Wantagh Rd (Ave.) on the east. Are there any known photos of this overpass, or other information?"
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Apr 27 2012
New York State Historians Give the Black Beast a Big Thumbs Up!
Following my presentation of the "Incredible Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island" at the 2012 Association of Public Historians of New York State lsast Wednesday, several historians experienced the Alco "Black Beast" first-hand in the parking lot of the Hyatt Regency Long Island. (6 comments)
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Apr 26 2012
The Long Island Aviation County Club, the Motor Parkway and a Hangar
One of the first private country club airfields in the United States was built on 200 acres abutting the north side of the Long Island Motor Parkway in the Hempstead Plains. (2 comments)
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Apr 25 2012
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: New Evidence of the Melville Sandpits Motor Parkway Bridge
More evidence has surfaced that the last intact Motor Parkway in Suffolk County is still standing in the Melville Sandpits near Route 110. (2 comments)
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Apr 24 2012
Where in the World is the Alco “Black Beast”?
Ed Muro has forwarded this aerial from the 2010 Nassau County Cruise to the Show. Can you find the "Black Beast"? (2 comments)
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Apr 23 2012
Highlights from the First 2012 “Clean Up Day” of the Old Bethpage Motor Parkway Bridge
Twenty members of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society had a blast last Saturday cleaning up the Old Bethpage Motor Parkway Bridge.
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Apr 21 2012
Newsday Video: “Car collector adds a classic”
Videojournalist Brittany Wait has placed a two-minute video on "Chrysler's Chrysler" on Newsday's Youtube Channel. (8 comments)
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Apr 20 2012
WNBC Wins Folio Award for News Clip “The Black Beast”
Congratulations to WNBC, reporter Greg Cergol and producer/videographer John Albertson for winning a Folio Award for their news clip "The Black Beast".
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Apr 19 2012
Amazing Aerial Views of the Hempstead Plains/Levittown (1924 to 2012)
The heart of the Long Island Motor Parkway and courses for the 1908, 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races went right through the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown). These aerials show how this area dramatically changed from 1924 to today. (2 comments)
Howard, Would love to have the opportunity to work on the brite work with you.