Tag: Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge
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Apr 22 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #16 Solved: A 1918/1919 Historic Roosevelt Field Aerial from the Cradle of Aviation
Did you solve this historic Roosevelt Field Mystery Foto submitted from the Cradle of Aviation?
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Feb 28 2024
Cradle of Aviation Exhibit: Roosevelt Field Aviators at the Mall
Roosevelt Field Aviators: Exhibit will be on display at the Roosevelt Field® shopping center from through March 13th.
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Jul 03 2023
Mystery Friday Foto #26 Solved: Previously unpublished Fotos of the Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City
Did you solve this weekend's holiday Mystery Foto?
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Jul 17 2021
Greg O’s Garage: Wrecks of The Long Island Motor Parkway including a racer practicing for the 1925 Indy 500
There is much reported and documented about the race cars that crashed throughout the Cup races and trials, but much less is known about the hundreds of public accidents along the parkway.
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May 05 2021
Cradle of Aviation Archives: An amazing 1936 aerial of the Motor Parkway, Roosevelt Field and Roosevelt Raceway
Through the joint efforts of the Cradle of Aviation and VanderbiltCupRaces.com, treasures of Long Island history continue to be uncovered including this 1936 aerial.
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Apr 27 2021
Dave’s “Excellent Day on the Motor Parkway in Garden City”
This time without his exploring partner Sammy, Dave Russo "went over to GC last week to check the status of one of the great LIMP remnant locations." Here is what he found walking east from Clinton Road to Ring Road.
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Feb 17 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: The Removal of the Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge
Following numerous accidents near the Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City, village officials and Nassau County in 1938 agreed to dismantle the bridge and its abutments.
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Dec 30 2020
1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #4: Garden City
From 1958 to 1967, unidentified couple(s) documented their tours of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the fourth of this series, these seven photos feature our favorite parkway in Garden City.
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Aug 21 2020
The Garden City News: Historians concerned about Village construction over the Motor Parkway
Reporter Rikki Massand has provided an excellent update on the construction over the Motor Parkway north of Stewart Field in today's Garden City News. The article includes comments from Al Velocci (my favorite co-author), Cyril Smith, Bill Bellmer and me.
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Aug 15 2020
Then & Now: A Return to the Long Island Motor Parkway in Garden City
Three years ago, eight members of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society documented the Garden City section of the road from Raymond Court to Clinton Road. Here is a Then (2017) & Now comparison with photos taken today.
