Long Island Motor Parkway
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Aug 02 2010
Archives: Book “The Long Island Motor Parkway”
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Aug 02 2010
Archives: Long Island Motor Parkway License Plates
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Aug 02 2010
Archives: Long Island Motor Parkway- Articles
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Aug 02 2010
Archives: Long Island Motor Parkway- Suffolk County
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Aug 02 2010
Archives: Long Island Motor Parkway- Queens
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Aug 02 2010
Archives: Long Island Motor Parkway- Today
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Jul 29 2010
The Long Island Motor Parkway Survey Bookmap: Fresh Meadows- The Western Terminus
One of the treasures of my original Motor Parkway survey collection and a key to to the survey maps is a 22-page 1910 "Bookmap" documenting the right-of way, the original property owners, and the corresponding survey plan #s.This Atlas includes the entire 44-mile right-of-way with surveyor notes added in 1929 and 1930. Starting from west (Fresh Meadows) going east (Lake Ronkonkoma), here is the first page of the Atlas with an accompanying aerial and photos (click to enlarge). (0 comments)
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Jun 22 2010
Stewart School Blog “The Long Island Motor Parkway: Garden City’s Hidden History ”
Last week teachers Mr. Schultz and Mrs. Tesoriero took their 4th grade Stewart School class on a walking trip to explore the remnants of the Motor Parkway in Garden City. The trip was documented in thisblog post. (0 comments)
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Jun 05 2010
The Day the Garden City Lodge Moved- March 19, 1989
The Garden City Lodge was the fifth toll lodge built for the Long Island Motor Parkway. It was one of the six toll lodges designed by John Russell Pope with living quarters for the toll-takers and their families. (0 comments)
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May 19 2010
Rare 1930s Photos of Two Motor Parkway Bridge Accidents
The Motor Parkway bridges in Nassau County were built from 1908 to 1911. The significant growth of traffic in the 1920s and 1930s was not anticipated in the design of the bridges and the openings for roads below were very narrow, typically only 22 feet wide. As a result, multiple car accidents occurred at the Motor Parkway bridges. Photos of two of these accidents in the 1930s were documented by the omnipresent photographer John Drennan and were discovered in the archives of Nassau County… (2 comments)
