Tag: Hicksville
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Oct 07 2026
Kleiner’s Korner: 100 Years Ago - June, 1926 Motor Parkway News
A variety of Motor Parkway news items are featured in this monthly look back of 100 years ago!
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May 27 2025
Friday Mystery Foto #31 Solved: An Antique Lithograph of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race
Did you identify this antique lithograph?
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Oct 24 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #43 Solved: Three automobiles in the Hicksville Public Library Archives
Did you help the Hicksville Public Library identify these three automobiles?
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Aug 29 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #35 Solved: Bert Dingley taking the Hicksville Turn in a Pope-Hartford at the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race
The Walter McCarthy archives again challenged you with another unpublished race photo.
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Jul 18 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #29 Partially Solved: A Mitchell at the “Proposed Entrance to the Motor Parkway at Hicksville”
My favorite co-author Al Velocci needed your help to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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May 09 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #19 Solved: The 1907 Reunion of Oldsmobilists at the Empire City Track in Yonkers
Jeanne Booth, an archivist at the Hicksville Public Library, was looking for your assistance to identify two Mystery Fotos found in their archives.
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Mar 28 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #13 Solved: The 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race winner #7 Panhard driven by George Heath stopped at a Control
Jeanne Booth, an archivist at the Hicksville Public Library, was seeking your assistance in identifying this Mystery Foto found in the library's collection.
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Nov 03 2018
Herb Lytle’s Great-Great-Grandson Takes a Ride in the Alco Black Beast
Last Sunday, Scott Lytle, the great-great-grandson of Vanderbilt Cup Racer Herb Lytle, and his lovely wife Marie visited me in Roslyn and took rides in the Alco Black Beast.
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Oct 01 2018
Mystery Foto #39 Solved: Louis Chevrolet’s Fatal Crash in the 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race
This weekend's Mystery Foto documented a major crash in a Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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Jan 20 2018
Update-1/23:The Vanderbilt Cup Race Driver who was Developing a Unique “City” Near the Motor Parkway
Historian, publisher and musician Sheri Mignano Crawford recently discovered the role of a Vanderbilt Cup Race driver in developing a planned "city" south of Hicksville and less than one mile from the Motor Parkway.
