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  • Field Trip to Explore the Bethpage Section of the Motor Parkway This Saturday Morning
    Aug 20 2019

    Field Trip to Explore the Bethpage Section of the Motor Parkway This Saturday Morning

    Inspired by Sammy & Dave Russo's exploration of the Bethpage section of our favorite historic parkway, the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society has joined forces with the Central Park Historical Society to organize a field trip at 10:00 am this Saturday. (2 comments)


  • Mystery Auto #33 Solved: George Barris’ 1963 Buick Villa Riviera
    Aug 19 2019

    Mystery Auto #33 Solved: George Barris’ 1963 Buick Villa Riviera

    A Rhode Island collector challenged you to identify his "Hollywood" star. (15 comments)


  • Kleiner’s Kolumn: Investigating a Lost Road in Bethpage
    Aug 17 2019

    Kleiner’s Kolumn: Investigating a Lost Road in Bethpage

    As a follow-up to the amazing discussion of the Bethpage section of the Monday Parkway, Art Kleiner has researched relevant surveys, maps and aerials in my collection and discovered these gems. (5 comments)


  • Audrain Exhibit Concept Car #2: 1951 Le Sabre-Harley Earl’s Jet Automobile
    Aug 14 2019

    Audrain Exhibit Concept Car #2: 1951 Le Sabre-Harley Earl’s Jet Automobile

    The second GM concept car from the current exhibit at the Audrain Automobile Museum in Newport is the 1951 Le Sabre. (1 comments)


  • Malverne Treasure #5: Survey of  “Toll Box” and Entrance/Exit Lanes at Rocky Hill Road (April 1914)
    Aug 13 2019

    Malverne Treasure #5: Survey of “Toll Box” and Entrance/Exit Lanes at Rocky Hill Road (April 1914)

    Over 200 Long Island Motor Parkway surveys, maps, blueprints, documents and drawings discovered by Roy Knoernschild in a Malverne basement in February 2017 are being categorized, repaired and scanned. This April 1914 Motor Parkway survey documented the then Western Terminus at Rocky Hill Road, Queens (Springfield Boulevard). (21 comments)


  • Update: Sam & Dave’s “Excellent 2019 Vanderbilt Day”- #11 Bethpage #2
    Aug 13 2019

    Update: Sam & Dave’s “Excellent 2019 Vanderbilt Day”- #11 Bethpage #2

    In the 11th post of the series, the father and son team of Sammy and Dave Russo explore the section of the Motor Parkway north of Deadman's Curve in Bethpage. Our favorite exploration team provide a video of road remnants that may be the Motor Parkway. (56 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #32 Solved: Willie K. Going for an Early Ride in his 1899 Locomobile Runabout
    Aug 12 2019

    Mystery Foto #32 Solved: Willie K. Going for an Early Ride in his 1899 Locomobile Runabout

    The Audrain Automobile Museum challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto. (6 comments)


  • Audrain Exhibit Concept Car #1: The 1938 Buick Y-Job: The First Concept Car
    Aug 10 2019

    Audrain Exhibit Concept Car #1: The 1938 Buick Y-Job: The First Concept Car

    The current exhibit of Old 16 and 12 GM concept cars at the Audrain Automobile Museum in Newport is amazing and definitely worth a trip! Here is a profile of the 1938 Buick Y-Job now on display until the end of October. (6 comments)


  • Art Student Cheryl Rubin Awarded the Third Peter Helck Scholarship
    Aug 09 2019

    Art Student Cheryl Rubin Awarded the Third Peter Helck Scholarship

    Congratulations to Cheryl Rubin as the 2019/2020 recipient of the Peter Helck Scholarship at the Art Students League of New York. (0 comments)


  • Malverne Treasure #4: Survey of the Meadowbrook Lodge in Westbury (January 1938)
    Aug 07 2019

    Malverne Treasure #4: Survey of the Meadowbrook Lodge in Westbury (January 1938)

    Over 200 Long Island Motor Parkway surveys, maps, blueprints, documents and drawings discovered by Roy Knoernschild in a Malverne basement in February 2017 are being categorized, repaired and scanned. This January 1938 Motor Parkway survey documented the Meadowbrook Lodge, four months before the road and the lodge were closed. (2 comments)




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Aug 10 2026 There’s your connection, Gram.  Always interesting to find things like that.

Aug 10 2026 Art, Thank you so much for the additional research! It’s quite fitting that Arnold Carlson was a Floral Park resident,…

Aug 10 2026 Great post, Gram, thanks for sharing.  I lived in Valley Stream in the 60s and 70s and often went to West Hempstead - I…

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The six Vanderbilt Cup Races held on Long Island from 1904 to 1910 were the greatest sporting events of their day, and the first international automobile road races held in the United States. The races had a far-reaching impact on the development of American automobiles and parkways. This site provides comprehensive information on the races, the Long Island Motor Parkway and current Long Island automotive events, car shows and news.

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