Tag: East Meadow
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Feb 05 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: The Carman Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge Removal
Next in the bridge removal series is the Carman Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in East Meadow, location of many Vanderbilt Cup Races.
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Feb 03 2020
Mystery Foto #5 Solved: The Motor Parkway West of Merrick Avenue Under Construction in 1908
The Garden City Archives challenged you to identify this weekend's Super Bowl Mystery Foto.
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Dec 25 2019
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Update on the Nassau County Motor Parkway Trail at Eisenhower Park
Update: Work has recently started on the next phase of The Motor Parkway Trail along Old Country Road and Salisbury Park Drive in Westbury.
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Nov 19 2019
Kleiner’s Korner: Removal of the (Old) Westbury Road Motor Parkway Bridge in East Meadow
This next installment of my Motor Parkway bridge removal series takes us to the Westbury Road Bridge in East Meadow.
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Nov 12 2019
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Revisiting the Transformation of the Motor Parkway into Salisbury Park Drive
Several comments to last month's Mystery Foto #43 (identification of the Motor Parkway west of Newbridge Road in Levittown) pertained to Salisbury Park Drive. Additional documents provided by the Nassau County Department of Public Works (NCDPW) uncover improvements to the Motor Parkway in this location and its incorporation into the county highway system.
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Jul 01 2019
Mystery Foto #26 Solved: The Dangerous Newbridge Avenue Bridge on 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race Course
This weekend's Mystery Foto featured another important section of a Vanderbilt Cup Race course.
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Jun 05 2019
Sam & Dave’s “Excellent 2019 Vanderbilt Day”- #9 East Meadow and Levittown
In the ninth post of the series, the father and son team of Sammy and Dave Russo explored the Motor Parkway section of my childhood hometowns East Meadow and Levittown.
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Apr 10 2019
Historical Marker to Be Installed at the Merrick Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge Site in East Meadow
As part of the pilot program for the Motor Parkway Trail, Nassau County Department of Public Works is planning to install a historical marker on the site of the Merrick Avenue Motor Parkway bridge in East Meadow.
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Jan 28 2019
Mystery Foto #4 Solved: Looking North on Merrick Avenue and Stewart Avenue in 1944
Bill Bellmer, village historian of Garden City, challenged you to solve this weekend's wonderful carless Mystery Foto.
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Nov 06 2018
Special East Meadow Mystery Foto from Richard Panchyk Revealed at the Preservation Society Meeting
Richard Panchyk, the keynote presenter at Wednesday's meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, challenged you to identify another amazing Long Island aerial. Richard revealed the answers at last-night's wonderful meeting.
