Tag: Kleiner's Kolumn
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Nov 05 2021
Update:Kleiner’s Korner - An Interesting Long Island Map from 1929 & the KKK in Queens
Update at the end of the original post. "Time" magazine published this map on September 16, 1929 showing major locations on Long Island including the Motor Parkway. However, the purpose given for building the Parkway was incorrrect.
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Oct 19 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: And Now For Something Completely Different: Part 6 (Motor Parkway - 1930+)
Additional items of interest pertaining to our favorite highway!
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Oct 13 2021
Kleiner’s Korner: 1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race Illustrations
Additional illustrations portray the last Vanderbilt Cup Race held on public roads on Long Island.
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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 . . .
