Long Island Motor Parkway
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Dec 06 2012
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #26 Hillside Avenue Parkway Bridge in East Williston
The 26th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the parkway bridge over Hillside Avenue in East Williston. (3 comments)
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Nov 28 2012
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #25 Wheatley Hills “Golfway” Bridge in East Williston
A total of 65 bridges were built by the Motor Parkway from 1908 to 1931 including; parkway bridges (Motor Parkway was on top of the bridge over roads and railroad tracks), highway bridges (Motor Parkway went under the bridge), farmway bridges (Motor Parkway connected adjoining farmland) and one golfway bridge. (2 comments)
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Nov 22 2012
Roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com: “World’s first automobile road is now ...a bike path”
A website dedicated to cycling has posted an article on the Long Island Motor Parkway and its conversion to a bike path in Queens. (0 comments)
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Nov 17 2012
Then & Now Update: Ronkonkoma Lodge (1923-2012)
The private home that was formerly the Ronkonkoma Lodge is being remodeled and expanded. Here is an updated "Then & Now" of the building from 1923 to today. (8 comments)
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Nov 14 2012
The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: #4 & #5 Great Neck Lodge & Kiosk in Lake Success
Going west to east, the third and fourth Motor Parkway toll collection structures were the Great Neck Kiosk and Great Neck Lodge located 350-feet east of Lakeville Road in Lake Success. (0 comments)
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Nov 07 2012
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #24 Robbins Lane Parkway Bridge Updated 3/14/2017
The 24th bridge in the series documenting the 65 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the parkway bridge over Robbins Lane in East Williston. (1 comments)
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Oct 18 2012
Vintage Autos Return to the Queens “Motor Parkway” Greenway
Vintage cars drove yesterday on the Queens section of the historic Long Island Motor Parkway for the first time in over 70 years. (0 comments)
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Oct 03 2012
LevittownPatch/Newsday:Hempstead Town Board Denies Crocus Lane Development Plan on the Motor Parkway
Before a standing-room group of residents and several members of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, the Town Board of Hempstead unanimously denied a petition to rezone a Levittown property for two-story 46-unit condos on the site of the Vanderbilt Cup Races' grandstands and press box from 1908 to 1910. (7 comments)
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Oct 01 2012
Newsday 1954 Article: “Motor Parkway ‘Ghosts’ Haunt Northern State”
Art Kleiner has forwarded a 1954 Newsday article on the two Motor Parkway bridges built in Lake Success by Robert Moses with the construction of the Northern State Parkway in 1931. The Motor Parkway bridge parallel to Lakeville Road is documented below. (4 comments)
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Sep 27 2012
John Russell Pope’s Last Motor Parkway Commission in Garden City
William K. Vanderbilt Jr's favorite architect for the Motor Parkway was John Russell Pope, who designed the first six toll lodges and the Petit Trianon Inn. Pope's last Motor Parkway commission was to design a Garden City office building in 1912 to be built adjacent to the Garden City Lodge. (0 comments)
