Tag: Clarence Mackay
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May 13 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: A Crowd Gathers at the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Did you identify this crowd gathered for a speech?
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May 10 2025
From the Marty Himes Collection: Two Very Early Long Island Pocket Maps (1892 and 1917)
Forwarded from the Himes family are a pair of very early tourist maps of Long Island.
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Oct 17 2023
Hold the Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023 7 pm- Special Presentation at the Fall Meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society
Join author Paul Mateyunas to discuss the Gilded Age and the estates and country homes of Long Island.
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Dec 28 2022
Greg O’s Garage: The 1930 Motor Parkway license plate/season ticket holders Part 3
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum has forwarded lists of people who purchased Long Island Motor Parkway season tickets and license plates over an eight-year period (1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 1930, 1931 and 1932.) These " Who's Who" lists total over 700 prominent Long Islanders.
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Dec 13 2022
Greg O’s Garage: Clarence Mackay’s Harbor Hill estate in Roslyn (now East Hills)
Clarence Mackay's Harbor Hill was one of the country's greatest estates ever constructed. We'll look at the estate's outbuildings and locations owned by this successful businessman and a director of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Dec 10 2022
Greg O’s Garage: The 1930 Motor Parkway license plate/season ticket holders Part I
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum has forwarded lists of people who purchased Long Island Motor Parkway season tickets and license plates over an eight-year period (1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917 1930, 1931 and 1932.) These " Who's Who" lists total over 700 prominent Long Islanders.
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Aug 27 2022
Greg O’s Garage; The Country Estates of the Motor Parkway/Vanderbilt Cup Race Officials and Directors
A glimpse at some of the country estates and residences of the wealthy, well-known officials and directors of The Long Island Motor parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup races.
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Apr 22 2022
Earth Day Weekend was celebrated with the clean-up of the Mackay Estate Gate Lodge
In celebration of 2022 Earth Day Weekend, a group of members of the Roslyn Landmark Society, Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society and residents of East Hills and Roslyn cleaned up debris and planted pansies around the Mackay Estate Gate Lodge in East Hills.
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Apr 05 2022
Greg O’s Garage: HBO’s The Gilded Age, Long Island, The Vanderbilts and Stanford White Part 3
HBO's excellent new series 'The Gilded Age' has many connections, real and fictional, to NYC, Long Island and the Vanderbilt family.
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Mar 08 2022
Greg O’s Garage: The Great Wall of East Hills and Long Island Motor Parkway director Clarence Mackay
A recently re-discovered driveway remnant of Clarence Mackay's Harbor Hill has finally been documented
