Long Island Motor Parkway
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Feb 11 2019
Mystery Foto #6 Solved: A Rare Long Island Motor Parkway Paycheck
My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to identify this rare Long Island Motor Parkway memorabilia in his collection. (14 comments)
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Jan 31 2019
Newsday: Trust for the Public Land: Planned trails would run length of Long Island
Last Friday, Joan Gralla of Newsday reported that The Trust for the Public Land has proposed a network of trails on Long Island that would include sections of the Long Island Motor Parkway right-of-way. (0 comments)
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Jan 16 2019
Updated: Then & Now: Mineola LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge
Frank Femenias observes that a 1909 photo on the Mineola LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge by surveyor Clinton Robertson was taken at the exact location of a 1983 photo by Ron Ridolph. (17 comments)
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Jan 12 2019
Then & Now: The First Long Island Offices of the Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc.
According to my favorite co-author Al Velocci, the first Long Island offices for the Motor Parkway was the Denton Building on the northwest corner of Old Country Road and Mineola Boulevard in Mineola. (7 comments)
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Jan 02 2019
Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album:The Motor Parkway Engineering Field Offices & a Worker Shanty
In the sixth of the photo series from surveyor Clinton A. Robertson's recently discovered Motor Parkway construction album, the temporary engineering field offices and a worker shanty as seen in 1909 is featured. (2 comments)
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Jan 01 2019
Long Island Motor Parkway Photos From the NYC Municipal Archives
As a follow-up to last weekend's Mystery Foto, below are additional Motor Parkway photos from the New York City Municipal Archives. (8 comments)
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Dec 31 2018
Mystery Foto #52 Solved: The Creedmoor Motor Parkway Bridge in 1928
Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society member Syd Lefkoe challenges you to solve the final Mystery Foto of 2018. (14 comments)
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Dec 27 2018
From A Grandfather’s Photo Album: The Durant Special on the Motor Parkway in 1923
Robert Martens posted this YoTube video in 2011 made up of photos from his grandfather's 1923 album. It features four photos of Gustave Martens' Durant Special as his family traveled on the Long Island Motor Parkway. (4 comments)
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Dec 21 2018
Update #2: In Search of the Mystery Camp Mills “New York” Road
Lee Chambers, who grew up in Mitchel Field, has been determined to document a mysterious Camp Mills road that ran east to west and disappeared when Mitchel Field was reconfigured in 1927 to 1932. Bill Bellmer's recent aerials and documents have help Lee solve the mystery. (18 comments)
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Dec 18 2018
Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album: The Construction Equipment of the Long Island Motor Parkway
In the fifth of the photo series from surveyor Clinton A. Robertson's recently discovered construction album, the equipment used to build the Motor Parkway is featured. (7 comments)
