Long Island Motor Parkway
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Dec 14 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: How The Entertainment Business Brought The Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races to the Public (Part 1)
Previous posts have detailed the various movies and live theater productions that included scenes from The Vanderbilt Cup Races. Here is additional documentation providing a glimpse of how the film industry used our favorite roadway and race to engage the public. (4 comments)
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Dec 06 2021
Update: Mystery Foto #49 Solved: A 1947 Aerial of Levittown and William J. Levitt
Frank Femenias challenged you to solve this weekend's composite Mystery Foto. (30 comments)
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Dec 04 2021
Walking the “reconstructed” Motor Parkway from Springfield Boulevard to Winchester Boulevard in Queens
It was a beautiful day to take a walk on one of my favorite sections of the Motor Parkway. Here are views of the "reconstructed" road and four of the new historic markers. (16 comments)
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Nov 05 2021
Update:Kleiner’s Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens
Update at the end of the original post. "Time" magazine published this map on September 16, 1929 showing major locations on Long Island including the Motor Parkway. However, the purpose given for building the Parkway was incorrrect. (23 comments)
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Nov 01 2021
Mystery Foto #44 Solved: Curtiss JN Jenny in the clouds over Curtiss Field in 1925
Historian Bill Bellmer challenged you to solve this Mystery Aerial. (7 comments)
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Sep 27 2021
Mystery Foto #39 Solved: A 1950’s aerial view of the Motor Parkway Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
Frank Femenias challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery aerial. (8 comments)
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Sep 22 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: And Now For Something Completely Different: Part 5 (Motor Parkway - 1907 - 1929)
Additional newspaper articles from 1907 through 1929 mentioning our favorite highway, The Long Island Motor Parkway. Most are from the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle". (4 comments)
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Sep 08 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: Construction Details of the Old Country Road Highway Bridge
From the Motor Parkway collection of maps and surveys come these 1908 construction plans of the Old Country Road highway bridge which is classified this way due to the parkway running under the bridge. (0 comments)
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Aug 24 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: Stockholders of the Long Island Motor Parkway
The Motor Parkway was incorporated in December, 1906 with prominent and wealthy individuals invited to become investors. Records show who these individuals were and the amount of their investment. (4 comments)
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Aug 03 2021
Newsday’s Big Apple Almanac: Willie K’s Speedway
In the 1990s a regular feature of the Sunday Newsday were the color illustrations of New York history by artist Patrick M. Reynolds. The September 3rd and 10th, 1990 issues featured these cartoons of the Motor Parkway and the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race. (2 comments)
