Long Island Motor Parkway
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Nov 01 2021
Mystery Foto #44 Solved: Curtiss JN Jenny in the clouds over Curtiss Field in 1925
Historian Bill Bellmer challenged you to solve this Mystery Aerial. (7 comments)
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Sep 27 2021
Mystery Foto #39 Solved: A 1950’s aerial view of the Motor Parkway Western Terminus in Fresh Meadows
Frank Femenias challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery aerial. (8 comments)
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Sep 22 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: And Now For Something Completely Different: Part 5 (Motor Parkway - 1907 - 1929)
Additional newspaper articles from 1907 through 1929 mentioning our favorite highway, The Long Island Motor Parkway. Most are from the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle". (4 comments)
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Sep 08 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: Construction Details of the Old Country Road Highway Bridge
From the Motor Parkway collection of maps and surveys come these 1908 construction plans of the Old Country Road highway bridge which is classified this way due to the parkway running under the bridge. (0 comments)
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Aug 24 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: Stockholders of the Long Island Motor Parkway
The Motor Parkway was incorporated in December, 1906 with prominent and wealthy individuals invited to become investors. Records show who these individuals were and the amount of their investment. (4 comments)
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Aug 03 2021
Newsday’s Big Apple Almanac: Willie K’s Speedway
In the 1990s a regular feature of the Sunday Newsday were the color illustrations of New York history by artist Patrick M. Reynolds. The September 3rd and 10th, 1990 issues featured these cartoons of the Motor Parkway and the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race. (2 comments)
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Jul 21 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: The expenses of constructing the never built Ronkonkoma Racing Loop
As noted in a 2010 post plans were drawn up to construct a racing loop at the end of the Motor Parkway in Ronkonkoma. An estimate dated October 24, 1910, projected the cost to be $258,075.67 - a low estimate among the many alternatives provided . . . (1 comments)
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Jul 17 2021
Greg O’s Garage: Wrecks of The Long Island Motor Parkway including a racer practicing for the 1925 Indy 500
There is much reported and documented about the race cars that crashed throughout the Cup races and trials, but much less is known about the hundreds of public accidents along the parkway. (28 comments)
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Jul 14 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: Petting Parties on the Motor Parkway
The popularity of the Motor Parkway as a location for "petting parties" led to multiple burglaries and attacks on young adults. Citizens and government officials looked to the managers of the Motor Parkway to provide security most often to no avail. (6 comments)
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Jul 05 2021
Mystery Foto #27 Solved: Tommy Zinzi policing the Motor Parkway in front of the Meadow Brook Lodge
Greg O. challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto. (19 comments)
Never figured out why a gatehouse was erected in this area.