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  • Mystery Photo Solved #3: The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race on Ellison Road (Avenue) in Westbury
    Feb 25 2013

    Mystery Photo Solved #3: The 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race on Ellison Road (Avenue) in Westbury

    Last Friday's mystery photos of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race were courtesy of the Witmer Photograph Collection of the Cow Neck Peninsula Historical Society in Port Washington. (8 comments)


  • The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: #9 Garden City Lodge
    Feb 23 2013

    The Motor Parkway Toll Collection Structures: #9 Garden City Lodge

    Going west to east, the eighth Motor Parkway toll collection structure was the Garden City Lodge located off Clinton Road in Garden City. (7 comments)


  • Film: W.C Fields Driving On the Long Island Motor Parkway in “Sally of the Sawdust”
    Feb 19 2013

    Film: W.C Fields Driving On the Long Island Motor Parkway in “Sally of the Sawdust”

    John has forwarded this D.W. Griffith film "Sally of the Sawdust". Starring Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, and Alfred Lunt, the film was shot in Bayside, Greenwich an on the "Motor Parkway" in 1925. (7 comments)


  • Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and  the Curtiss Engineering Corporation
    Feb 18 2013

    Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation

    Last Friday's mystery photo has been solved. The aerial is looking north towards Curtiss Engineering Corporation and Curtiss Field in Garden City and East Garden City in 1927. (30 comments)


  • Watching the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race in Floral Park
    Feb 13 2013

    Watching the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race in Floral Park

    Walt Gosden, Village Historian of Floral Park, has provided these photos from the village archives. The race photos were taken from the Creedmoor Branch Railroad Bridge over Jericho Turnpike. (3 comments)


  • Article: “The Cup Races- Recollections of 1904-1905-1906” by Joe Tracy
    Feb 12 2013

    Article: “The Cup Races- Recollections of 1904-1905-1906” by Joe Tracy

    VanderbiltCupRaces.com contributor Walter McCarthy has forwarded this July 1944 article by driver Joe Tracy published in Veteran Motor Car Club of America's Bulb Horn. Illustrations were provided by the prominent artist Peter Helck. (0 comments)


  • Mystery Friday Photo #1 Solved: The Bethpage State Park in Old Bethpage and Farmingdale
    Feb 11 2013

    Mystery Friday Photo #1 Solved: The Bethpage State Park in Old Bethpage and Farmingdale

    Congratulations to Brian McCarthy, Jim Waechtler, blh, Frank and Scott for correctly identifying last week's mystery 1940s aerial as the Long Island Motor Parkway on the border of Bethpage State Park in Farmingdale. (21 comments)


  • Updated: Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #30: Old Country Road Motor Parkway Bridge
    Feb 09 2013

    Updated: Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #30: Old Country Road Motor Parkway Bridge

    The 30th bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Old Country Motor Parkway Bridge on the Carle Place/Mineola border connecting to Garden City. This was classified by the Motor Parkway as a "highway" bridge since it went under Old Country Road. (5 comments)


  • The Birth of the Long Island Motor Parkway
    Feb 07 2013

    The Birth of the Long Island Motor Parkway

    The death of a spectator in the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race nearly brought the classic to a premature demise. The marvel was that only one spectator had been killed in the three races held up to that time. Demonstrating vision again, William K. Vanderbilt Jr. chartered the goal of a private parkway. (1 comments)


  • Memories of Super Bowl XLVII In New Orleans
    Feb 05 2013

    Memories of Super Bowl XLVII In New Orleans

    For the last three years, my friend Jerry Rokoff and I have won tickets to the Super Bowl at a charity auction for a wonderful organization Child Abuse Prevention Services (CAPS). Here are some highlights from an amazing weekend in New Orleans. (10 comments)




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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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