Long Island Motor Parkway
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Dec 05 2013
Chaos at the Finish of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race
The primary goal of the newly built Long Island Motor Parkway for the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race was to keep crowds under control and off the course. Unfortunately, chaos once again prevailed at the end of a Vanderbilt Cup Race. (1 comments)
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Nov 23 2013
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #40: Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains
The 40th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown). (3 comments)
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Nov 19 2013
Garden City Patch “Renewed Interest in the Vanderbilt Parkway”
Garden City Patch has posted this article on efforts to preserve a section of the Motor Parkway in Garden City. (1 comments)
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Nov 18 2013
Mystery Foto #42 Solved: Glen Oaks, Queens in September 1947
Steve Lucas submitted this week's Mystery Friday Foto. (5 comments)
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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This week's Mystery Foto was a previously unpublished image from the Vanderbilt Cup Races.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)
