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Nov 10 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: UPDATE - Levittown Motor Parkway Site Being Excavated
As mentioned in my comments on a recent post, the Motor Parkway site between Heron and Skimmer Lanes in Levittown is being developed into a private road with 9 homes being built. Excavation has begun with pieces of the Parkway having been found. (9 comments)
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Nov 07 2020
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Exclusive: Photos of Old 16 at the 1948 Antique Auto Show from the Helck Family Collection
Old 16 was the featured vehicle at the Antique Auto Show held from March 8-14, 1948 at the 71st Regiment Armory in Manhattan. Below are never-before published photos of the event from the Helck Family Collection (2 comments)
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Nov 06 2020
Video of the Week: Library of Congress “Early Days of Motoring”
This Blackhawk film is a 1967 compilation of Library of Congress films of early racing competitions including the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race and the 1905 Ormond-Daytona Automobile Races. (0 comments)
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Nov 04 2020
Manhasset and the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Blank Slate Media has requested images of Manhasset during the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race for their upcoming Guide to Manhasset publication. Here are several choices for them. (0 comments)
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Nov 04 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Taking “The Vanderbilt Cup” Musical on the Road
Besides Elsie Janis starring in "The Vanderbilt Cup" on Broadway, the musical comedy was performed throughout the United States with the automobile race scene and drivers often promoted as the main attractions. (0 comments)
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Nov 02 2020
Mystery Foto #44B Solved: A 1942 Photo of the Little Neck Parkway Motor Parkway Bridge
Did you identify this weekend's Mystery Friday Foto? (19 comments)
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Oct 30 2020
VanderbiltCupRaces.com Voted Best Blog on the North Shore
Blank Slate Media, the publisher of Great Neck News, Manhasset Times, NHP Herald Courier, Port Washington Times, Roslyn Times and Williston Times and its website The Island Now, has announced that VanderbiltCupRaces.com was voted by its readers as the 2020 Best Blog on the North Shore. (9 comments)
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Oct 28 2020
Harbor Hill- The Roslyn Country Home of a 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race Spectator- Clarence Mackay
As a friend of William k. Vanderbilt, Jr. and a member of high society, Clarence Mackay had a premium seat to watch the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race. With the assistance of master mapper Frank Femenias, the Roslyn (now East Hills) location of Mackay's long demolished Harbor Hill estate is explored below. (14 comments)
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Oct 27 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Recently Found Motor Parkway Construction Photos
These recently found photos were taken during the 1908 construction of the Motor Parkway and were taken by George Grantham Bain, who by 1905 had amassed one million photographs. (17 comments)
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Oct 26 2020
Mystery Foto #43 Solved: A 1996 of the Entrance and Exit Ramps to Springfield Boulevard at the Rocky Hill Lodge Site
My favorite co-author Al Velocci challenged you to solve this Mystery Motor Parkway Foto. (16 comments)
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