Vanderbilt Cup Races

Nov 23 2009

Favorite Website: Art’s Long Island Motor Parkway Site

A link to Art's Long Island Motor Parkway Site has been added to the Favorite Websites page of VanderbiltCupRaces.com .

This marvelous Motor Parkway website is broken down into 27 sections focusing on a specific area of the road (5 in Queens, 19 in Nassau and 3 in Suffolk). Each section includes maps, current photos and Art's Motor Parkway discoveries.

Here's a sampling:

-The concrete posts and pavement near Creedmore Hospital

-Cunningham Park Bridge and concrete posts

-Aerial views and concrete posts in Manhasset Hills and North Hills

-The Williston Park Historical Marker

-The Roslyn Road Restoration

-The concrete posts near Old Country Road in Carle Place

- Site of the Garden City Lodge

-The Levittown Vanderbilt Cup Race Grandstand/Press Box area. Note the summary of legal actions to protect this area.

-The Broadway section of Bethpage

-Deadman's Curve in Bethpage

-New concrete posts discovered in Bethpage?

-The farmway bridge in Old Bethpage Restoration Village

-The farmway bridge near Maxess Road in Melville and historical marker

-Motor Parkway in Wyandanch

Art, great job!

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Nov 29 2009 Art K. 4:16 PM

Thanks Howard for the link and kind words - much appreciated.

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The six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904 to 1910 were the greatest sporting events of their day, and the first international automobile road races held in the United States. The races had a far-reaching impact on the development of American automobiles and parkways. This site provides comprehensive information on the races, the Long Island Motor Parkway and current Long Island automotive events, car shows and news.

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