The Long Island Motor Parkway
The first parkway built exclusively for the automobile and part of the courses for the 1908 to 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races
Unlike the first roads built for commerce and horses, the Long Island Motor Parkway was conceived from a sporting contest; the colorful, exciting and often dangerous Vanderbilt Cup Races
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #31: The “Mayan Ruins” Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City
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2013
Mystery Photo #4 Solved: A 1928 Aerial of Old Bethpage and Melville Looking North
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Documenting W.C. Fields on the Long Island Motor Parkway in 1925
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“Champion of the Parkway” Presented at the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society Meeting
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