Tag: Queens
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Jan 15 2018
Updated:Mystery Foto #2 Solved:An Aerial of Fresh Meadows from the New York Life Archives Circa 1950
This weekend's Mystery Foto provided a unique view of the Motor Parkway right-of-way in Queens.
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Jan 02 2018
Mystery Foto #52 Solved: A Plan for the Adelphi Academy Bordering on the Motor Parkway
Art Kleiner provided a very tough challenge for the final Mystery Foto of 2017.
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Dec 06 2017
Malverne Treasure #3: Plan Showing the Entrances to the Motor Parkway at Rocky Hill Road
Over 200 Long Island Motor Parkway surveys, maps, blueprints, documents and drawings discovered by Roy Knoernschild in a Malverne basement in February 2017 are being categorized, repaired and scanned. This 1924 Motor Parkway survey documented the Rocky Hill Road Bridge, the two entrances and the Rocky Hill Lodge.
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Nov 20 2017
Mystery Foto #46 Solved: A Spectacular 1940 Aerial of the Rocky Hill Lodge & the Gatekeeper’s House
Frank Femenias challenged you to solve this amazing Mystery Foto aerial that he discovered on the Internet.
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Oct 12 2017
Three Friends Hanging Out at the Motor Parkway Entrance on Springfield Boulevard, Queens in 1931
Bill Schwartzberg has forwarded more original photos from an old family album. Three friends are having fun at the Rocky Hill Road entrance to the Motor Parkway (Springfield Avenue, Queens) on April 10, 1931.
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Mar 27 2017
Mystery Foto #12 Unsolved:Possible Options for this Long Island Motor Parkway Curve- Ca.1928 Update
Last weekend's Mystery Foto is still a mystery!
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Dec 06 2016
Sam & Dave’s Excellent Lost Motor Parkway Adventure II: Wheeler Farmway Bridge in Queens
In the second post of the 2016 series, Sam & Dave explore the mysterious Wheeler Farmway Bridge #1 in Oakland Gardens, Queens.
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Nov 15 2016
Sam & Dave’s Excellent “Lost” Motor Parkway Adventure I: Clearview Expressway-Queens
On Saturday, March 12, 2016, Dave and his 11-year old son Sammy embarked on another bike adventure exploring lost and forgotten sections of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Nov 08 2016
Raiders of Lost Underpass
Twenty-five members of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society and Motor Parkway East met up for an unofficial exploration of the newly discovered Union Turnpike/Motor Parkway Pedestrian Underpass last Saturday.
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Nov 01 2016
The Union Turnpike/Long Island Motor Parkway Pedestrian Underpass
My favorite co-author Al Velocci found a 1929 blueprint showing plans for a pedestrian underpass under the Motor Parkway and Union Turnpike. It turns out that I had two construction plans of the proposed underpass in my survey files.
