Tag: Brooklyn-queens Bike Path
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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…
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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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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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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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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
Deep and rich automotive details here. This whole series could easily be a part of the increasingly popular luxury auto…