Tag: Kleiner's Kolumn
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Sep 22 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: And Now For Something Completely Different: Part 5 (Motor Parkway - 1907 - 1929)
Additional newspaper articles from 1907 through 1929 mentioning our favorite highway, The Long Island Motor Parkway. Most are from the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle".
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Sep 08 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: Construction Details of the Old Country Road Highway Bridge
From the Motor Parkway collection of maps and surveys come these 1908 construction plans of the Old Country Road highway bridge which is classified this way due to the parkway running under the bridge.
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Aug 24 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: Stockholders of the Long Island Motor Parkway
The Motor Parkway was incorporated in December, 1906 with prominent and wealthy individuals invited to become investors. Records show who these individuals were and the amount of their investment.
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Aug 18 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: What Became of the Vanderbilt Cup Race Grandstand?
What do you do with a grandstand and associated buildings after they are no longer in use? Make some money from them, as Willie K. did.
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Aug 04 2021
Kleiner’s Korner Part 2: Illustrations of the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race Participants
Additional portrayals of participants of the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race.
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Jul 28 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: The Mysterious Seaford “Speedway” (posts and all!)
While hiking in Taukapausha Preserve which forms the Seaford/Massapequa border I noticed concrete posts very similar to those used along the Motor Parkway. What were these posts used for?
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Jul 21 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: The expenses of constructing the never built Ronkonkoma Racing Loop
As noted in a 2010 post plans were drawn up to construct a racing loop at the end of the Motor Parkway in Ronkonkoma. An estimate dated October 24, 1910, projected the cost to be $258,075.67 - a low estimate among the many alternatives provided . . .
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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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Jul 14 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: Petting Parties on the Motor Parkway
The popularity of the Motor Parkway as a location for "petting parties" led to multiple burglaries and attacks on young adults. Citizens and government officials looked to the managers of the Motor Parkway to provide security most often to no avail.
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Jul 10 2021
Update: Highlights from the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society meeting at Waterfront at Roslyn
Over 40 members of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society met today at the Black Beast Garage at Waterfront at Roslyn.
