Long Island Motor Parkway
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Dec 03 2014
The 1929 Long Island Motor Parkway Brochure and Map
After the Motor Parkway was extended to Nassau Boulevard in 1928, the Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. published this brochure and map promoting the "45 miles of fine, fast, private right of way". (8 comments)
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Dec 02 2014
A 1923 Property Map of Nassau County Highlighting the Motor Parkway
This unique 1923 map featured the property owners of Nassau County. (9 comments)
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Nov 18 2014
Mystery Foto #94 Solved: The Stymus Farmway Underpass of the Motor Parkway’s Longest Bridge
Al Velocci and Hector Gavilla challenged you to solve these mysteries associated with the Central Avenue/Long Island Railroad Bridge in Central Park (Bethpage). (20 comments)
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Nov 12 2014
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #51: The Claremont Avenue Bridge in Old Bethpage
The 51st bridge in the series documenting the 65 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Claremont Avenue Bridge in Old Bethpage. (2 comments)
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Nov 08 2014
LIHerald.com: Preserving history with a bike path
David Weingard of the East Meadow Herald reported last week on the $1.8 million grant to complete the Salisbury Park Drive segment of the Motor Parkway Trail. (5 comments)
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Nov 05 2014
Newsday: “Vanderbilt LI Motor Parkway trail gets $1.8M in federal funds”
Newsday has published an article by Joan Gralla on the $1.8 million additional funding for the Motor Parkway Trail. (1 comments)
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Nov 04 2014
Motor Parkway Trails #3: Bethpage Along the Central Railroad Right-Of Way
The third of the Motor Parkway Trail series for "exploring, biking and hiking" documents a 1.06 mile section of the road in Bethpage which parallels the right-of-way for the Central Railroad. (1 comments)
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Oct 25 2014
Then & Now: The Long Island Motor Parkway, Mitchel Field and Sonny Corleone
In my quest to discover Motor Parkway images over the last 11 years, I have uncovered many great aerials of nearby Mitchel Field Air Force Base taken from 1924 to the the present. (7 comments)
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Oct 14 2014
Mystery Foto #89 Solved: The Brookholt Mansion Built by Alva Vanderbilt Belmont and O.H.P. Belmont
This weekend's Mystery Foto highlighted a mansion that was once located less than a mile from my childhood home. (15 comments)
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Oct 07 2014
Mystery Foto #88 Solved: The Homecoming of Charles Lindbergh to Roosevelt Field on June 16, 1927
This weekend's Mystery Foto documented a historic Long Island event. (12 comments)
