Long Island Motor Parkway
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Mar 23 2012
An Old Bethpage Mystery Solved at the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society Meeting
A decades old mystery of the location of the Motor Parkway through Old Bethpage Village Restoration was apparently solved at the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society meeting last Wednesday. Here are the highlights of the meeting attended by 42 people. (3 comments)
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Mar 21 2012
Will the Motor Parkway Mystery In Old Bethpage Be Solved by Al Velocci Tonight?
Motor Parkway fans have debated for years the location of the road west of the Old Bethpage Motor Parkway Bridge. Did the parkway turn left and head up the hill, turn right at grade level or somehow even go through the hill? (1 comments)
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Mar 19 2012
The Motor Parkway North of Westbury Avenue on the Carle Place/Mineola Border
A wonderful section of the Long Island Motor Parkway is located south of Raff Avenue and north of Westbury Avenue on the border between Mineola and Carle Place. (9 comments)
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Feb 11 2012
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series:#17 Old Courthouse Road Bridge- Manhasset Hills/North Hills
With one-quarter of the Long Island Motor Parkway bridges documented on VanderbiltCupRaces.com, the next bridge to be examined is the Old Courthouse Road Highway Bridge bordering on Manhasset Hills and North Hills. (10 comments)
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Feb 10 2012
Then & Now: The Annex to the Petit Trianon
When the Petit Trianon Inn was built in 1911 at the eastern terminus of the Motor Parkway in Lake Ronkonkoma, William K. Vanderbilt Jr. also commissioned an annex building for the staff. This is the Annex: Then & Now. (7 comments)
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Feb 07 2012
The Length of the Long Island Motor Parkway
Ann: "What was the length of the Motor Parkway from Queens to Ronkonkoma?" (1 comments)
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Feb 02 2012
Newsday April 5, 1998 Article “History Takes the High Road”
Although the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society was organized just last year, efforts to preserve the parkway have been ongoing for decades- most noteworthy by the Long Island Motor Parkway Panel. As forwarded by Bob and Colleen Albertson, Newsday reporter Sylvia Adcock in April 1998 documented in this article… (0 comments)
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Jan 25 2012
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series:#16 New Hyde Park Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Searingtown
Leaving Lake Success and skipping Robert Moses' eastern Motor Parkway bridge over Northern State Parkway, the next target for our series is the Hyde Park Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Searingtown. The road was later renamed New Hyde Park Road. (10 comments)
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Jan 18 2012
Art Kleiner’s Exploration #4: The Motor Parkway in the Five Towns College Area in Dix Hills
Last month, Art Kleiner and two members of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society went on another exploration for the ruins and remnants of our favorite historic road. This is Art's report as documented on Art's Long Island Motor Parkway Site . (3 comments)
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Jan 14 2012
Then & Now: A Hidden Section of the Motor Parkway in Western Suffolk
A rarely seen section of the Motor Parkway in western Suffolk County has been rediscovered. Check out the Then & Now: (8 comments)
Rollin’s granddaughter Betty King had this medal. She said she gave it to the National Inventors Hall of Fame Museum…