Long Island Motor Parkway
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Nov 04 2013
Mystery Foto #40 Solved:The Von Osterman Family House in Lake Ronkonkoma in 1910
Art Kleiner submitted this Mystery Foto of a 1910 Lake Ronkonkoma postcard. It promoted the Motor Parkway as "connecting with New York City by highway for the exclusive use of automobiles." (4 comments)
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Oct 30 2013
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #39: Newbridge Road Bridge in Hempstead Plains
The 39th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Newbridge Road Bridge in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown). (2 comments)
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Oct 26 2013
Then & Now: The Bethpage Bikeway Section of the Motor Parkway in Old Bethpage
The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) has completed their extension of the 1/2 mile section of the Bethpage Bikeway in Bethpage State Park. (6 comments)
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Oct 07 2013
Mystery Foto #36 Solved: Joe Seymour Driving the #8 Thomas During the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
This week's Mystery Foto was a previously unpublished image from the Vanderbilt Cup Races. (8 comments)
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Oct 02 2013
1920s Promotional Film “Oilfield Dodge”
Gary "The Local Brush" Kupfer has forwarded this three-minute film showing a Dodge car navigating the "roads" to an oilfield in the 1920s. (7 comments)
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Sep 30 2013
Mystery Foto #35 Solved:Williston Park/East Williston/Albertson Section of the Motor Parkway in 1938
Master Mystery Foto detective Greg Oreiro has submitted this Mystery Foto aerial of a section of the Long Island Motor Parkway. (8 comments)
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Sep 23 2013
Mystery Foto #34 Solved: The Sayville Automobile Club in Front of the Kensington Hotel in Sayville
Kathy Curran, Executive Director of the Suffolk County Historical Society, submitted this previously unpublished photo of a car club dated June 20, 1911. (8 comments)
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Sep 21 2013
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #37: Carman Avenue Highway Bridge in East Meadow
The 37th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Carman Avenue Bridge in my childhood hometown East Meadow. It is classified as a highway bridge since Carman Avenue was over the Motor Parkway. (3 comments)
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Sep 14 2013
Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Railroad Station on the “Hempstead Extension (Spur)” Part I
Dick Makse has forwarded this photo of a Long Island Railroad cash fare receipt dated from 1915 to 1916. (5 comments)
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Sep 10 2013
Mystery Foto #32 Solved: Carman Avenue Bridge in East Meadow During the Opening of the Motor Parkway
This week's Mystery Foto is one of my favorite images of racing on the Long Island Motor Parkway. (11 comments)
