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Friday, February 12, 2010: Video “The Queens Motor Parkway Bike Path”

posted on Thursday, February 11 2010 by Howard Kroplick

Nycbikemaps has posted this 2009 five-minute video of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway bike path including a good portion of the Motor Parkway in Fresh Meadows. The 20-minute bike ride was played back at 4 times the speed. As a result, you can visualize what it was like to ride on this section of the Motor Parkway at around 40 miles per hour.

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Sunday, December 6, 2009: Film “The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course”

posted on Saturday, December 05 2009 by Howard Kroplick

Map of 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course

The course for the first Vanderbilt Cup Race in 1904 covered 30.24 miles of public roads in the center of Long Island. This 10-minute film documents the course using some of my favorite photos and clips from the American Biograph & Mutoscope film of the race.

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The 128-page book by Howard Kroplick, a researcher and lecturer on the races, contains rare images of the races from the archives of major museums, libraries and private collectors. The book Vanderbilt Cup Races of Long Island will be available from Arcadia Publishing in March 2008.

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