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Nov 30 2013
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #41: The Bloomingdale Road Bridge in Hempstead Plains
The 41st bridge in the series documenting the 60 Long Island Motor Parkway bridges is the highway bridge built for the extension of Bloomingdale Road in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown). (7 comments)
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Nov 29 2013
Video of the Week: The First Self-Propelled Vehicle: The 1769 Fardier du Cugnot
Seven years before the American Revolution in 1769, Nicholas Joseph Cugnot assembled the first self-propelled vehicle for the French military- the Fardier du Cugnot (Cugnot's flatbed truck). (6 comments)
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Nov 27 2013
The Garden City Hotel- Headquarters for the Vanderbilt Cup Race Commission
The Garden City Hotel, the largest and most exclusive hotel on Long Island, served as the headquarters for the Vanderbilt Cup Race Commission from 1904 to 1910. (3 comments)
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Nov 26 2013
Mystery Foto #43 Solved: Szisz in the #10 Renault Preparing for the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Mystery Foto expert Greg Oriero submitted this week's Foto. (3 comments)
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Nov 23 2013
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #40: Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains
The 40th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown). (3 comments)
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Nov 22 2013
Video of the Week: The Only Surviving Adams-Farwell Automobile
At the 2011 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance, spectators were treated to seeing the only surviving Adams-Farwell automobile. (1 comments)
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Nov 20 2013
The Demon of the Sky Versus The Daredevils of the Earth
Wayne Petersen, the great-great nephew of Barney Oldfield, has forwarded this amazing artwork of Oldfield racing a Curtiss Biplane and a Harley Davidson motorcycle in 1914. (3 comments)
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Nov 19 2013
Garden City Patch “Renewed Interest in the Vanderbilt Parkway”
Garden City Patch has posted this article on efforts to preserve a section of the Motor Parkway in Garden City. (1 comments)
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Nov 18 2013
Mystery Foto #42 Solved: Glen Oaks, Queens in September 1947
Steve Lucas submitted this week's Mystery Friday Foto. (5 comments)
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Nov 16 2013
Arcadia Publishing Announces the Availability of the Book “North Hempstead” In January 2014
My third book "North Hempstead" has been completed and will available for sale on January 20, 2014. (5 comments)
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