Vanderbilt Cup Races

This is exciting news. I’ve bike ridden this path with kids numerous times this summer and yes, it needs work. The steep slopes (9% at times) are dangerous for inexperienced kids to travel on these bumpy roads. Glad to hear it’s being paved over

From Queens Motor Parkway Renovation Update: Oldest road in country to be as good as new

0.31 miles of Motor Parkway stretch remaining in GC, but now with a parking lot in the center interrupting flow. Likely Roosevelt Field mall development began the parkway desecration many years ago. Same happened recently in Levittown with housing, with its slightly longer 0.85 stretch. Seems these short stretches today don’t stand a chance against eminent domain, decisions that no doubt will be regretted later

From Update: A Proposal to the Village of Garden City To Restore the Motor Parkway Concrete Posts Near Their Parking Lot

Just north of LIMP in Levittown.

From Mystery Foto #39 Solved: The Long Island Aviation Country Club (Circa 1940-1945)

We are looking east at the L.I. Aviation Country Club in Hicksville at the time but now Levittown. The property shared a border with the Long Island Motor Parkway a few feet to the right of the photo. The LIMP was part of the course for the 1908, 1909 and 1910 V C Races. Among the many famous members of the club were Charles Linbergh, Leroy Grumman, Chance Vought, Walter Beech, Sherman Fairchild and Jackie Cochran. The plane is a General Aircraft G1-80 “Skyfarer” which had its maiden flight in 1940. There was a “Family Day” or “Industry Day” at the club on June 30, 1940 so I wouldn’t be surprised if the photo dates from around then.

From Mystery Foto #39 Solved: The Long Island Aviation Country Club (Circa 1940-1945)

  9/25/2002 Mystery Photo Details:
    The location is what Levittown is today and the photographer is standing on the east side of pool looking west(erly).  The LIMP borders it on its north side. There is
tons of writings and photographs that give the complete story of its history in time
leading and up to the building of Levittown.
                        Best To ALL,  Ron
                              .

From Mystery Foto #39 Solved: The Long Island Aviation Country Club (Circa 1940-1945)

Aviation Country Club swimming pool

Hicksville/ Levittown

From Mystery Foto #39 Solved: The Long Island Aviation Country Club (Circa 1940-1945)

A photo we’ve seen before! Not as a mystery photo, but as part of an answer to a mystery photo I submitted back in 2013!
https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/mystery_foto_friday_29_can_you_identify_thsi_section_of_the_motor_parkway

Long Island Aviation Club looking East. Located just off the Motor Parkway, which would be to the photographers right in the photo. Cup races grandstand location was a few hundred feet away.
As per VCR.com,  https://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/blog/article/the_1940_membership_of_the_long_island_aviation_club
prominent members were; 
-Vanderbilt Cup1940 Membership List of the Long Island Aviation Club
Walter Beech- who began Beechcraft Aviation - still fabulous airplanes.
Wallis C. Bird
Jacqueline Cochran- First woman to fly a bomber across the Atlantic Ocean leading to the formation Women’s Air Force Service Pilots (WASPs)
Powel Crosley, Jr. - of Crosley Radio (nearly everyone’s radios in this time period were Crosley’s and he innovated radios in cars) and owner of Cincinnati Reds
Four members of the Du Pont family: Louisa Carpenter, Felix Du Pont Jr. and his wife, and Richard Du Pont. Felix and Richard were both pilots and went on to found Allegheny Airways which became U.S. Air.
Sherman Fairchild
Marshall Field III - heir to Marshall Fields, founder of “Chicago Sun” newspaper, owned Simon & Schuster Publishing for a time
Robert L. Gardiner
L. R. Grumman - founder of Grumman Aviation - terrific planes and today Northrop-Grumman
Roger Wolfe Kahn-  Jazz musician and son of Otto Kahn
Col. Charles Lindbergh
William L. Mitchell- Vice-President,Design for General Motors
Henry S. Morgan - son of J.P. Morgan and founder of Morgan-Stanley
Elmer A. Sperry, Jr.- the son of inventor Elmer Sperry
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
Gar Wood - inventor and championship motorboat builder
My guess on the date is sometime around 1940.

Research to ID the plane this weekend….

From Mystery Foto #39 Solved: The Long Island Aviation Country Club (Circa 1940-1945)

Great that you kept the scrapbooks from ‘69!

From Kleiner's Korner: My Personal Tribute to Tom Seaver

Thanks, Ellen and Syd.  Nice!  We just need to be sure the remaining posts are not removed or damaged during construction.  Who should be contacted about this?

From Queens Motor Parkway Renovation Update: Oldest road in country to be as good as new

It was simply naive to think this wasn’t going to happen. The minute I heard about this I knew this entire section of the LIMP was done. Ok so they might put up a sign, big deal.  Thankfully the view looking west, from that point up to Clinton Rd abutment, will be preserved. That’s real history. Not a new parking lot with a sign of what “used to be here”. The locations that were abandoned and left undeveloped, those are the best remaining locations.

From Update: A Proposal to the Village of Garden City To Restore the Motor Parkway Concrete Posts Near Their Parking Lot

Tom Padilla, Can’t help you with that. Got my info from the Suffolk County real estate office in Riverhead and Suffolk County atlases.

From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: A Fairchild Aerial of Willie K's Private Eagle's Nest Golf Course

Al, With the real estate transactions you detailed, do you have any further info about what firms or individual realtors handled those acquistions for Willie K? I know he was friends with S. Osgood Pell, whose real estate firm on 5th Ave was active even after Pell was killed in 1913 in an accident while crossing the LIRR tracks outside Long Beach. Any idea where I could find the real estate transaction details? Thanks!

From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: A Fairchild Aerial of Willie K's Private Eagle's Nest Golf Course

Art, Steve,  The golf course had only 6 holes, 3 of them had 2 sets of tee boxes. Museum has at least one scorecard with celebrity names on it. Fore !!!!

From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: A Fairchild Aerial of Willie K's Private Eagle's Nest Golf Course

No *WONDER* it looked so familiar!  Looking “north” to the Sound?  HA!  How about north-east onto Northport Harbor and Bay?  For a measly 45°, I blew it!  Glad you all had such a good time; I have enjoyed EN immensely over these many years.  Sam, III

From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: A Fairchild Aerial of Willie K's Private Eagle's Nest Golf Course

Frank,
Thanks for the fotos… what marked as a “Cultivating Field” just South of Edith’s Home is, in fact, Edith’s family’s property (2.4 acres), which, in 1984 was then owned by Picone Sand & Gravel with the Huntington/Babylon Town Line being but about 50 to 100 feet further South… otherwise, fotos generally as this 83 year old’s faulting memory recalls… but, if,we only had a foto/map circa 1952.  And, as a point of information, at that time we could then hear (at night) Republic Aviation testing jet engines as sound carried there being only farms between.

From A 1946 View of the Broad Hollow Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge in Melville

Jim - There’s one original concrete bridge (1909, Old Courthouse Rd, Manhasset Hills) still standing and fully intact - photo below. Two more fully intact in Cunningham Park (1926, Hollis Ct Blvd and 73 Ave). Alley Park also has two left from 1911, where one is hidden with its underpass filled in.

From A 1946 View of the Broad Hollow Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge in Melville

Caption on the about fox hunt was corrected.

From Update #3:Mystery Foto #33 Solved:Spectacular 1924 Aerial of Meadow Brook Hunt Club & Motor Parkway

what ever contractor Willie used to build his overpasses had to be great
look at all the years they lasted and many still in use.
you should find them if they are still in existence.
JIM

From A 1946 View of the Broad Hollow Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge in Melville

Howard, As several of the responders pointed out, the Eagle’s Nest complex was developed over several years. Vanderbilt acquired the property over a number of years with three separate transactions totaling some 42 acres, The first was a parcel of 20.25 acres acquired from Robert W. DeForest in May 1910. The second parcel, 6 plus acres, running along the northside of the DeForest acreage, was obtained from Mary Lawrence Post of Bayport in July, 1921. The third parcel, some 16 plus acres,  abutting the southside of the DeForest piece, came from the Van Iderstine family in December of 1927. Suffolk County acquired the property in 1949. It was first offered to New York State but Moses turned down saying it didn’t fit into his plans as a state Park.

From Mystery Friday Foto #38 Solved: A Fairchild Aerial of Willie K's Private Eagle's Nest Golf Course

living in bayside my whole life, as kids we rode our bikes thru the parks to discover parts of a road adjacent to Francis Lewis Blvd that as kids seemed to lead to nowhere.
My father a NYC contractor first told me it was remnants of the Vanderbilt race way.( not exact, but close)
Not understanding this exactly for years it came clear as I became a antique auto collector .Later I met Howard and it became crystal clear.

From Newsday: "Motor Parkway:The road to yesterday"