Long Island Motor Parkway
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Jul 16 2013
Mystery Foto #24 Solved: The Commack Spur of the Long Island Motor Parkway- Updated 1/30/16
Frank Feminas offered last week's Mystery Foto challenge with two aerials of the "Commack Spur" taken in August 1938. (9 comments)
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Jul 01 2013
Mystery Foto #22 Solved: 1938 Aerial of East Williston, Mineola & Carle Place
Greg, one of our champion solvers, submitted last Friday's Mystery Foto. (11 comments)
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Jun 18 2013
Even More Information on the Links Golf Club in Searingtown
As a follow-up to the June 3, 2013 Mystery Foto post on the Links Golf Club, more information has surfaced on this club that bordered on the Long Island Motor Parkway in Searingtown. (1 comments)
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Jun 10 2013
Mystery Foto #19 Solved: Aerial of the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race & Site of Lindbergh’s Takeoff
This aerial was taken during the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup Race held at the "new" Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury. (12 comments)
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Jun 05 2013
Clean Up the Historic Deadman’s Curve in Bethpage on Saturday, June 22, 2013
Come join the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society and the Bethpage community for a "Clean Up the Historic Deadman's Curve" Day at 9:00 AM Saturday, June 22, 2013. (8 comments)
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Jun 04 2013
The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: #10 Meadow Brook Lodge in Westbury
Going west to east, the ninth Motor Parkway toll collection structure was the Meadow Brook Lodge located west of Merrick Avenue in Westbury. (1 comments)
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Jun 03 2013
Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Links Golf Club’s Private Entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway
Queens historian and "Champion of the Motor Parkway" Robert Miller has provided this rare image of an entrance to the Long Island Motor Parkway. (26 comments)
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May 28 2013
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #33: The “Roosevelt Field” Motor Parkway Bridge in Westbury
The 33rd bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the highway bridge that eventually connected Stewart Avenue to Roosevelt Field. (11 comments)
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May 27 2013
Mystery Foto #17 Solved: A 1924 Aerial of the Future Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
Frank Femenias submitted this 1924 aerial of Fresh Meadows where the Western Terminus will be located off Nassau Boulevard (Horace Harding Boulevard) (10 comments)
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May 18 2013
In Search of the Grandstand, Press Box/Officials Stand and Pits in Levittown
From 1908 to 1910, the center of the auto racing world was a 200-yard strip of the Long Island Motor Parkway in the Hempstead Plains, now Levittown. (8 comments)
