Tag: Levittown
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Mystery Foto #51 Solved: A Section of the Clubhouse of the Aviation Country Club of Long Island
This week's Mystery Foto was another real challenge and probably the most unusual of the 51 Fotos that have been posted over the last year.
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series#42:Wantagh Avenue Bridge in Hempstead Plains Updated:6/20/16
The 42nd bridge in the series documenting the 60 Long Island Motor Parkway bridges is the "parkway" bridge over Wantagh Avenue in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #41: The Bloomingdale Road Bridge in Hempstead Plains
The 41st bridge in the series documenting the 60 Long Island Motor Parkway bridges is the highway bridge built for the extension of Bloomingdale Road in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #40: Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains
The 40th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #39: Newbridge Road Bridge in Hempstead Plains
The 39th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Newbridge Road Bridge in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).
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Happy 105th Anniversary- The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
In celebration of the 105th anniversary of the Fourth Vanderbilt Cup Race held on October 24, 1908, here are several of my favorite race images photographed near the grandstand and press box/officials' stand in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).
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Mystery Foto #29 Solved: The Long Island Aviation Country Club in Hicksville (Later Levittown)
Master detective Greg Oreiro has submitted this week's Mystery Foto.
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In Search of the Grandstand, Press Box/Officials Stand and Pits in Levittown
From 1908 to 1910, the center of the auto racing world was a 200-yard strip of the Long Island Motor Parkway in the Hempstead Plains, now Levittown.
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Mystery Foto #8 Solved: Levittown/Bethpage on May 27, 1947
Congratulations to Tim, Frank Scotty, Greg Tsistinas, Steve Lucas, Brian McCarthy, Frank Femenias, susansmoose, Gary Hammond, Art K., and Joe Oesterle for correctly identifying last Friday's Mystery Foto.
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Josato Inc proposing to build 4 single family homes on former Levittown site of the Motor Parkway
A developer is once again requesting zoning variances to build homes on the site of the grandstand and press box on the Long Island Motor Parkway in Levittown.
The partially completed train crossing is obviously Mineola or Albertson. Staring at the picture it could easily be…