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  • Update Sunday, 6/29/2025:  Rehab Update: Rehab at 90% Healing
    Jun 26 2025

    Update Sunday, 6/29/2025:  Rehab Update: Rehab at 90% Healing

    While on an early March vacation in the beautiful island of Dominica, I slipped entering a river boat and joined an exclusive club with Tiger Woods, Aaron Rodgers and Jayson Tatum with a ruptured Achilles tendon. (49 comments)


  • A Tour of Long Island Motor Parkway Sites
    Jun 25 2025

    A Tour of Long Island Motor Parkway Sites

    Earlier in the month, Long Island transplants Richard Salamon and Frank Teracino took a tour of Long Island Motor Parkway sites of their former home of Long Island. (2 comments)


  •  Corrected Mystery Foto #35 Solved: 1912 Blueprints for Motor Parkway’s General Manager’s Office in Garden City
    Jun 23 2025

    Corrected Mystery Foto #35 Solved: 1912 Blueprints for Motor Parkway’s General Manager’s Office in Garden City

    Did you identify these Mystery blueprints? Two new hints provided. (7 comments)


  • Kleiner’s Korner: 100 Years Ago on the Motor Parkway (June, 1925)
    Jun 21 2025

    Kleiner’s Korner: 100 Years Ago on the Motor Parkway (June, 1925)

    Summer will soon be here (actually as I write this its the first day) and here's what was hot on our favorite roadway a hundred years ago! (0 comments)


  • Song of the Week: “Waterloo” by Dana Kyle Kroplick
    Jun 20 2025

    Song of the Week: “Waterloo” by Dana Kyle Kroplick

    Here is the second single by my talented daughter Dana Kyle Kroplick. (2 comments)


  • Video of the Week: Billy Joel’s Long Island Tour
    Jun 18 2025

    Video of the Week: Billy Joel’s Long Island Tour

    A tour of Long Island through Billy Joel songs (0 comments)


  • Mystery Friday Foto #34 Solved : A Guard on the Indianapolis Speedway Track in August 1909
    Jun 17 2025

    Mystery Friday Foto #34 Solved : A Guard on the Indianapolis Speedway Track in August 1909

    Did you identify this stereoscopic image? (8 comments)


  • Film “1957 Bridgehampton Race Circuit Inauguration”
    Jun 14 2025

    Film “1957 Bridgehampton Race Circuit Inauguration”

    As a follow-up to Bridgehampton Mystery Foto #33, Frank Femenias remembered this historic film first posted on the website on April 22, 2014. (5 comments)


  • Autoevolution: Pair of Two Tucker 48s Remind Us of Their Majesty at 2025’s Greenwich Concours d’Elegance
    Jun 11 2025

    Autoevolution: Pair of Two Tucker 48s Remind Us of Their Majesty at 2025’s Greenwich Concours d’Elegance

    Autoevolution.com has posted an article of the two Tuckers at the 2025 Greenwich Concours d'Elegance. (0 comments)


  • Mystery  Foto  #33 Solved: Aerial of the Bridgehampton Race Circuit in 1957 and a very special Comment
    Jun 10 2025

    Mystery Foto #33 Solved: Aerial of the Bridgehampton Race Circuit in 1957 and a very special Comment

    Did you identify this mystery aerial? (33 comments)




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Apr 23 2026 Amazing job on the video Craig and Florence!

Apr 23 2026 Indeed Al! I had read about that in my research of her. Here’s a great article of her WW1 exploits.…

Apr 22 2026 can you add more images

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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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