Tag: Garden City
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Kleiner’s Korner: A 1909 Motor Parkway Construction Update
Readers of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle received an update on the progress of constructing The Motor Parkway in August, 1909.
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A 1924 aerial of the Garden City Hotel
Justin Kelly of the Garden City Golf Club has forwarded this 1924 aerial of the Garden City Hotel.
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Greg O’s Garage: Newly Discovered 1919 Blueprints of Camp Mills in Garden City
Long Island contractor Roy Knoernschild has once again generously donated more survey maps. This time, Roy discovered a 1919 Completion Atlas of Camp Mills in Garden City. The Atlas was given today to Bill Bellmer, the village historian of Garden City, for the Garden City Archives.
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Kleiner’s Korner: Nassau County Surveys of Motor Parkway Property Transferred or Released (Garden City)
Several real estate transactions involving former Motor Parkway property in Garden City were made between Nassau County, the Town of Hempstead, homeowners and commercial developers. Here are documents provided by the Nassau County Dept. of Public Works and local newspapers with details.
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Mystery Friday Foto #8 Solved: Weighing a race car prior to the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race in Garden City
Did you solve this weekend's Mystery Foto?
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Update: Restoration of a section of the Motor Parkway in Garden City
As a follow-up to last October's The Garden City News Report, I am pleased to announce that progress is being made to restore a section of the Motor Parkway near the new parking lot at Stewart Field.
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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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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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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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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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