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  • Kleiner’s Kolumn: Removal of the Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge
    Nov 06 2019

    Kleiner’s Kolumn: Removal of the Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge

    This installment of the series exploring the removal of Motor Parkway bridges documents plans from the Nassau County Department of Public Works pertaining to the Roosevelt Field Motor Parkway Bridge, connecting Stewart Avenue and Roosevelt Field. (9 comments)


  • Sam Berliner III: A 1970 Walking Tour of the Motor Parkway in Queens
    Nov 05 2019

    Sam Berliner III: A 1970 Walking Tour of the Motor Parkway in Queens

    Sam Berliner III continues to restore his amazing Motor Parkway website. A highlight of his restored LIMP History Page is a set of Queens Motor Parkway photos taken by J.J. Conroy of Sea Cliff around1970. (12 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #44 Solved: One-Acre Property Purchased by the Motor Parkway for a Borrow Pit
    Nov 04 2019

    Mystery Foto #44 Solved: One-Acre Property Purchased by the Motor Parkway for a Borrow Pit

    Art Kleiner challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Survey. (16 comments)


  • Kleiner’s Kolumn:Update-Historical Markers for the Long Island Motor Parkway & Vanderbilt Cup Races
    Nov 02 2019

    Kleiner’s Kolumn:Update-Historical Markers for the Long Island Motor Parkway & Vanderbilt Cup Races

    One way to keep the memories of the Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races alive is to memorialize their existence with historical markers throughout Long Island. (11 comments)


  • Bringatrailor.com: Kobus Talks Torpedos with the Tuckers at Manhasset Concours
    Oct 30 2019

    Bringatrailor.com: Kobus Talks Torpedos with the Tuckers at Manhasset Concours

    Photographer Kobus Reyneke has posted a Bringatrailer.com article on the 2019 Americana Manhasset Concours d'Elegance with a special focus on the Tucker'48 and photos of Chrysler's Chrysler. (1 comments)


  • Kleiner’s Kolumn: Removal of the Central Avenue/LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge
    Oct 29 2019

    Kleiner’s Kolumn: Removal of the Central Avenue/LIRR Motor Parkway Bridge

    Art Kleiner has explored recently obtained surveys and maps from the Nassau County Department of Public Works to focus on the removal of the largest bridge built for the Motor Parkway. (10 comments)


  • Mystery Foto #43 Solved : A 1955 View of the Motor Parkway in Levittown Looking West
    Oct 28 2019

    Mystery Foto #43 Solved : A 1955 View of the Motor Parkway in Levittown Looking West

    My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to solve this previously unpublished 1955 photo of the Long Island Motor Parkway. (40 comments)


  • The Day We Met Carroll Shelby
    Oct 26 2019

    The Day We Met Carroll Shelby

    With the upcoming opening of the film "Ford versus Ferrari", I recalled fondly the opportunity to meet Carroll Shelby 14 years ago in Lime Rock, Connecticut. It is a day Roz and I will never forget. (9 comments)


  • Big Crowd Enjoyed “A Trip Back in Time” in Bethpage
    Oct 23 2019

    Big Crowd Enjoyed “A Trip Back in Time” in Bethpage

    Over 80 people attended the joint meeting of Central Park Historical Society and the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society to hear "Memories of the Motor Parkway in Bethpage". A wonderful time was had by all! (4 comments)


  • How the Planned Route of the Long Island Motor Parkway Changed from the Initial 1906 Plan
    Oct 22 2019

    How the Planned Route of the Long Island Motor Parkway Changed from the Initial 1906 Plan

    The original 1906 plan for the Motor Parkway was "a straightaway road of 65 or more miles that will extend from Floral Park through the center of Long Island to Riverhead. However, without the right of condemnation, the right-of-way was determined by landowners willing to accommodate the parkway organizers. (1 comments)




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