Long Island Motor Parkway
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Dec 15 2018
Updated: My Favorite Queens Motor Parkway Images for the New York City Parks Department
New York City Parks Department is hoping to develop new historic markers along the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway and has asked for my assistance. Here are a some of my favorite Queens Motor Parkway images. (6 comments)
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Dec 12 2018
Updated: Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album: A Motor Parkway Survey Team in Lake Success in 1909
In the fourth of the photo series from surveyor Clinton A. Robertson's recently discovered construction album, Clinton's Motor Parkway survey team in Lake Success (Lakeville) is featured. (15 comments)
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Dec 11 2018
The Salvation Army Hotel Being Moved Down Clinton Road in Garden City in 1928
Garden City Village Historian Bill Bellmer has forwarded this 1928 aerial showing the same area as last Friday's Mystery Foto from the viewpoint looking north. (6 comments)
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Dec 10 2018
Mystery Foto #49 Solved:Hazelhurst Field, Garden City Lodge,Curtiss Engineering & Camp Mills in 1918
Author Richard Panchyk challenged you again to identify another amazing previously unpublished Mystery Foto. (26 comments)
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Dec 08 2018
Updated: The 1940 Membership of the Long Island Aviation Club
In my effort to collect everything related to the Vanderbilt Cup Races and the Long Island Motor Parkway, years ago I purchased the 1940 membership book of the Aviation Club of Long Island (Long Island Aviation Club). It turns out to be an important research tool for Dr. Katherine Sharp Landdeck of the Texas Woman's University. (18 comments)
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Dec 07 2018
Video of the Week: The Long Island Motor Parkway- The World’s First Highway
This two-minute video posted by A Fork in a World of Soup Productions in 2012 provides a nice introduction to our favorite historic parkway. (1 comments)
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Dec 01 2018
Surveyor Clinton Robertson Photo Album: The Old Country Road Motor Parkway Bridge
In the third of the series of photos from surveyor Clinton A. Robertson's recently discovered construction album, the Motor Parkway Bridge under Old Country Road in Mineola/Carle Place/Garden City is featured. (9 comments)
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Nov 20 2018
Updated: Femenias Findings- Exploring the Rustic Bagatelle Section of the Long Island Motor Parkway
Frank Femenias and Brian McCarthy recently explored the "rustic" Bagatelle section of the Motor Parkway Wheatley Heights and Dix Hills (Half Hollow Hills) . This area is rarely visited due to heavy brush and an abundance of poison ivy. (18 comments)
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Nov 14 2018
Updated: Clinton Robertson Photo Album: Central Park Avenue/LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge in Bethpage
In the second of the new series of photos from surveyor Clinton A. Robertson's recently discovered construction album, the construction of the largest Motor Parkway bridge located In Central Park (Bethpage) is featured. (10 comments)
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Nov 06 2018
Special East Meadow Mystery Foto from Richard Panchyk Revealed at the Preservation Society Meeting
Richard Panchyk, the keynote presenter at Wednesday's meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, challenged you to identify another amazing Long Island aerial. Richard revealed the answers at last-night's wonderful meeting. (11 comments)
