Tag: Brooklyn-queens Bike Path
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May 04 2015
Mystery Foto #18 Solved: The Western Terminus of the Motor Parkway in Fresh Meadows on July 23, 1939
This weekend's Mystery Foto was another spectacular aerial of the Motor Parkway.
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Apr 11 2015
New Series: Sam & Dave’s “Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure” I: Queens
On April 4, 2015, Dave Russo and his 10-year old son Sammy experienced a one-day 38-mile bike tour on the Long Island Motor Parkway. In the first of a new VanderbiltCupRaces.com series, here is Dave and Sammy's wonderful story and photos of the Queens section of their "Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure."
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Apr 07 2014
Mystery Foto #62 Solved: The Grand Central Parkway Bridge over the Motor Parkway in Queens
Frank Femenias forwarded another fun Mystery Foto.
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Apr 27 2013
Motor Parkway Trails #1: Brooklyn-Queens Greenway
Inspired by my presentation "Exploring, Biking and Hiking Along the Historic Motor Parkway" at the Adirondack Mountain Club in Dix Hills earlier this month, a new series is being introduced on VanderbiltCupRaces.com documenting the favorite Motor Parkway Trails.
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Nov 22 2012
Roadswerenotbuiltforcars.com: “World’s first automobile road is now ...a bike path”
A website dedicated to cycling has posted an article on the Long Island Motor Parkway and its conversion to a bike path in Queens.
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Jul 26 2011
Was the Long Island Motor Parkway in the 1937 Classic Film “Topper”?
While researching yesterday's post on the 73rd Avenue Bridge, I discovered a fascinating Motor Parkway statement in the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway Guide developed by the New York City Parks Department. Take a look:
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Feb 11 2010
Video “The Queens Motor Parkway Bike Path”
Nycbikemaps has posted this 2009 five-minute video of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway bike path including a good portion of the Motor Parkway in Fresh Meadows. The 20-minute bike ride was played back at 4 times the speed. As a result, you can visualize what it was like to ride on this section of the Motor Parkway at around 40 miles per hour.
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Oct 17 2009
The Motor Parkway in Hollis Hills, Queens
Art, one of the best preserved sections of the Motor Parkway is near your parent's home in Hollis Hills, Queens. When the parkway closed on April 17, 1938, Robert Moses created a bike path over the first two and half miles in Queens. The bike path is still very active today and includes three well-preserved, original Motor Parkway bridges over Hollis Hills Terrace (see above), 73rd Avenue and Springfield Boulevard.
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Feb 06 2009
The Opening of the Motor Parkway Bike Path- July 9, 1938
The crushing impact of the Depression, coupled with the ever-expanding free New York State Parkway system, effectively sealed the fate of the Long Island Motor Parkway (LIMP). On June 16, 1937, William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. offered the parkway to the public. It officially closed on April 17, 1938 with the right-of-way turned over to Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
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Dec 17 2008
A Queens Tour of the Long Island Motor Parkway
Many viewers have requested maps of the Long Island Motor Parkway so they can walk this historical road and find remnants of America's first parkway. I have put together routes in Queens, Nassau and Suffolk Counties using a 1940 map which still showed the Long Island Motor Parkway right-of-way. In the first of a three-part series, Click here for a pdf of the Queens LIMP map. Nassau County and Suffolk County maps will follow over the next week.
