Vanderbilt Cup Races

Motor Parkway looking north toward Horace Harding Blvd. Parkway Bridge is over 73rd Rd. Temporary entrance to Parkway from 73rd Rd. as Horace Harding Blvd, not yet ready for traffic. Most likely 1927.

From Mystery Friday Foto #54 Solved: A Challenging Aerial in Fresh Meadows

Thanks everyone for coming to this fun event.

Kudos to Mike and Hudson Tucker and Rob Ida and Alex Soultanis for making this a memorable open house!

Enjoy,

Howard Kroplick

From Update: Saturday, November 1, 2025: The Duesenberg Open House at the Waterfront at Roslyn Garage

Howard’s cars were amazing and the weather was perfect.
Great event by Howard and his crew.
So glad I was able to see the Duesenberg and the other cars in his collection.

From Update: Saturday, November 1, 2025: The Duesenberg Open House at the Waterfront at Roslyn Garage

Eric, Towards the top of the page here, you’ll see in red - The Long Island Motor Parkway Online Map I clicked that and it brought me to the Google Map. It’s all there, you don’t need to sign in to Google to view the map ( :

From Femenias Findings: A New Interactive Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

Looks like the interactive map was taken off awhile back. Any other sources?

From Femenias Findings: A New Interactive Online Map of the Long Island Motor Parkway

Howard, I just wanted to say thank you for hosting a great event.  Your car collection is extraordinary, I really enjoyed your stories and getting such a close up view of everything.

From Update: Saturday, November 1, 2025: The Duesenberg Open House at the Waterfront at Roslyn Garage

Howard i just want to say thank you so much for a fantastic day to view all of your cars and listen to the stories about them. My wife, son, and I really enjoyed ourselves. Thanks again.

From Update: Saturday, November 1, 2025: The Duesenberg Open House at the Waterfront at Roslyn Garage

Howard: Howard: you hosted another great event-thanks so much

From Update: Saturday, November 1, 2025: The Duesenberg Open House at the Waterfront at Roslyn Garage

Motor Parkway in Queens, looking north towards North Hempstead Turnpike (Horace Harding Blvd.)
73rd Street Bridge
1938
Temporary entrance to the Parkway built while Nassau Blvd. was being built and paved (thanks Al V.)

From Mystery Friday Foto #54 Solved: A Challenging Aerial in Fresh Meadows

Hello! Looking to stop by with my wife

From Update: Saturday, November 1, 2025: The Duesenberg Open House at the Waterfront at Roslyn Garage

We were all set to go and see that Registration is Closed !!! Your original invite didn’t show registration was Required. We were all set ready to go and meet up with another couple bringing a #34 of 54 cars built to show you. We were at your Open House when #1044 Debuted with the Tucker Brothers in 2017.
Please reply to my email please we know what to do, thank you . .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) Thank you.

From Update: Saturday, November 1, 2025: The Duesenberg Open House at the Waterfront at Roslyn Garage

Hi all:  I tried to RSVP via the AACA-GNYR site, but seems it didn’t go through. I would like to swing by and (just like last year), park in adjacent lot, and generally be unobtrusive and stay out of the way (except to look).  Hope that’s still ok?

From Update: Saturday, November 1, 2025: The Duesenberg Open House at the Waterfront at Roslyn Garage

We are looking north along the LIMP in Fresh Meadows between Union Turnpike and Nassau Boulevard, just slightly west of today’s Francis Lewis Blvd. In the center is the LIMP bridge over 73rd Avenue. What appears to be an entrance ramp was, in fact, a temporary entrance to the LIMP built around 1927 -1928 during constuction and widening of Nassau Blvd. (a few hunndred yards north) where the real entrance to the LIMP was located.  This temporary entrance looks fairly new so I’ll guess the date as 1928.

From Mystery Friday Foto #54 Solved: A Challenging Aerial in Fresh Meadows

I will be there with my dad and two brothers.

From Update: Saturday, November 1, 2025: The Duesenberg Open House at the Waterfront at Roslyn Garage

Looking east where the LIMP crosses over Route 107 in the center of the picture.  The “exit” ramp on the left side of the LIMP was put there for the 1909 and 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races to shorten the course from the longer 1908 course.  Racers traveling east would now turn northbound onto Route 107 instead of continuing on towards “dead man’s curve” in Bethpage.  My only hesitation to be sure here is the absence of the Massapequa Lodge which should be on the north side of the LIMP just below the ersatz exit.  I don’t know why we can’t see that.  So I could be wrong altogether about the whole thing.

From Mystery Friday Foto #54 Solved: A Challenging Aerial in Fresh Meadows

One of my favorites, I believe this photo is a cropped version—the uncropped photo is really great. It’s the intersection of the north-south LIMP and the east-west Black Stump Road (aka 73rd Avenue) in Fresh Meadows. Overpass at 73rd Avenue is the only “Motor Parkway structure” in the photo. Looking north, just ahead is the Fresh Meadow Country Club, the North Hempstead Turnpike overpass and the Parkway terminus at Nassau (Horace Harding) Boulevard. The “entrance ramp” is kind of a mystery to me, but Sam Berliner once suspected it was left over from construction crews working on this last extension in 1926. The original photo had the year at 1938, but I suspect it might be earlier.

From Mystery Friday Foto #54 Solved: A Challenging Aerial in Fresh Meadows

Thanks Greg, I’ll look to see if there’s any newspapers that carried the Hatlo cartoon suggested by your grandfather.  You never know!  What was your grandfather’s name?

From Mystery Friday Foto #52 Solved: The 'Case Super Special Speedster'

Art,
That was how Jimmy Hatlo thanked the person who submitted the idea for the cartoon. Hatlo was especially popular in the 1940’s and 50’s. I only know this because my Grandfather submitted a story to Hatlo in the late 40’s about how he was a respected engineer at Sperry on Long Island, but at home his family didn’t even think he could hang a picture. My mother still has the framed original Hatlo artwork for the papers that Hatlo would also send back to the submitter as a souvenir of being printed in the newspaper.

From Mystery Friday Foto #52 Solved: The 'Case Super Special Speedster'

David - some more including a 1950 aerial comparison, courtesy of the late Sam Berliner III.

From Mystery Friday Foto #53 Solved: A Stretch of the Motor Parkway in Bethpage

Hi David, it is true that the power lines follow the old RoW most of the time. Below are Rt 135 construction plans, including position of the Motor Pkwy, courtesy Art Kleiner.

From Mystery Friday Foto #53 Solved: A Stretch of the Motor Parkway in Bethpage