Tag: Fresh Meadows
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Feb 08 2009
In Search of the Nassau Boulevard Toll Booth: Part I
As described in the book The Long Island Motor Parkway, the Motor Parkway was extended three miles in the late 1920s from Rocky Hill Road (Springfield Boulevard) to Nassau Boulevard (later renamed Horace Harding Boulevard). The above image of a rare 1928 Motor Parkway brochure (courtesy of Robert Harrington) promoted the new entrance at Fresh Meadows. Note the illustration of the toll booth crossing the entire road.
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Jan 07 2009
A Fresh Meadows View of the Western LIMP Terminus
Over the last five years, I have been documenting the 44-mile right-of way of the Long Island Motor Parkway from Fresh Meadows, Queens to Lake Ronkonkoma, Suffolk County. The most elusive area to research has been the most westerly section of the Motor Parkway In Queens. This entrance from Horace Harding Boulevard was opened by the Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. in 1928.
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Dec 23 2008
Hit One Over the Motor Parkway Bridge in Fresh Meadows!
Contributor Mitch Kaften has provided another view of the first Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge - located near the Western Terminus at Nassau Boulevard (now Horace Harding Expressway).
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Dec 04 2008
A Rare Photo of the North Hempstead Turnpike LIMP Bridge
In the early 1950s, Robert C. Levine went for a walk with a friend in a Queens park and stumbled on remains of the Long Island Motor Parkway. The road ended on an abandoned bridge near ball fields in Fresh Meadows. His friend documented the moment in the above photo with Robert leaning on the guard rail.
