Tag: Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge
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Nov 19 2013
Garden City Patch “Renewed Interest in the Vanderbilt Parkway”
Garden City Patch has posted this article on efforts to preserve a section of the Motor Parkway in Garden City.
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Apr 30 2013
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #32: Clinton Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City
The 32nd bridge in the series documenting the 60 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the two pillar Clinton Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City.
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Feb 18 2013
Mystery Friday Photo #2 Solved: Clinton Road, Curtiss Field and the Curtiss Engineering Corporation
Last Friday's mystery photo has been solved. The aerial is looking north towards Curtiss Engineering Corporation and Curtiss Field in Garden City and East Garden City in 1927.
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Jul 12 2011
Garden City Life: “Village Drives Effort to Preserve Long Island Motor Parkway”
This article by Melissa Argueta appeared in the July 1, 2011 issue of Garden City Life. Photo Credit: The Long Island Motor Parkway as seen in 1908 from the Carman Avenue Bridge in East Meadow. Photo courtesy of Garden City Archives. Photo from the Howard Kroplick Collection.
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May 19 2010
Rare 1930s Photos of Two Motor Parkway Bridge Accidents
The Motor Parkway bridges in Nassau County were built from 1908 to 1911. The significant growth of traffic in the 1920s and 1930s was not anticipated in the design of the bridges and the openings for roads below were very narrow, typically only 22 feet wide. As a result, multiple car accidents occurred at the Motor Parkway bridges. Photos of two of these accidents in the 1930s were documented by the omnipresent photographer John Drennan and were discovered in the archives of Nassau County…
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May 18 2010
Then & Now: Potential Nassau Historical Markers on the Motor Parkway Trail
Nassau County is currently developing a master plan for a continuous multi-use Motor Parkway Trail. Part of the plan calls for the placement of markers "at the location of historical remnants and will serve as a way to educate the public on the history of the corridor as the original Long Island Motor Parkway..". These are my recommendations for 21 historic markers:
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Jul 03 2009
Then & Now: The Motor Parkway Around Roosevelt Field
Izzy, as shown in the above 1938 aerial, the Long Island Motor Parkway was located to the west and south of the historic airfield Roosevelt Field.
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Feb 28 2009
More Cool Feedback from the Stewart School in Garden City
Last Tuesday, I had a wonderful meeting with students of the Stewart School in Garden City who are researching the Long Island Motor Parkway. As shown in this 1960 aerial looking east, the Motor Parkway was directly north of the school and was parallel to Stewart Avenue. Among the images that we discussed were these two from Garden City:
