Tag: Kleiner's Kolumn
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Feb 25 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn:Documentation of the Eight Motor Parkway Bridges in Suffolk County (#53 to #60)
Finishing up the Motor Parkway Bridge Series here are the eight bridges in Suffolk County beginning with the Clody Farmway bridge (#53) and ending with the Deer Park Avenue Bridge (#60).
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Feb 19 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Documentation of the Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges in Nassau County (#43-#52)
The final part of the Nassau County Motor Parkway Bridge series is presented here from the Massapequa-Hicksville Motor Parkway Bridge (#43) to the The Old Bethpage Motor Parkway Bridge (#52).
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Feb 15 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: The Long Island Motor Parkway in Advertising Part I
The growth of the Motor Parkway encouraged Long Island businesses to use it to generate business and to aid in providing directions to customers.
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Feb 12 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Documentation of the Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges in Nassau County (#28-#42)
Part II of the Nassau County Motor Parkway bridges takes us from the Westbury Avenue Bridge to the Wantagh Avenue Bridge.
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Feb 08 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Documentation of the First 15 Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges in Nassau County
The Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge series continues with the first 15 bridges in Nassau County (#s 13-27) going from west to east.
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Feb 05 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: The Carman Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge Removal
Next in the bridge removal series is the Carman Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in East Meadow, location of many Vanderbilt Cup Races.
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Feb 04 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Part 2- Mapping the Motor Parkway, Mitchel Field & Mitchel Gardens
This post continues with my examination of Mitchel Field documents provided by the Nassau County Dept. of Public Works and pertains to post-WWII development of the area.
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Feb 01 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Documentation of the 12 Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges in Queens
Previous posts have featured the many bridges constructed over and under The Long Island Motor Parkway, however none have included all the bridges in one place.This first post provides profiles of the 12 bridges built in Queens.
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Jan 22 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Unique Watercolors Painted for Peter Helck from Fellow Artist John W. Burgess
From the Helck Family Collection comes a series of watercolor paintings personally created for Peter Helck by automobile artist John W. Burgess (1911-1992).
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Jan 21 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: The 1941 Suffolk County Map of The Motor Parkway
As a follow-up to my Jan. 11 post pertaining to the acquisition of the Motor Parkway by the County of Suffolk, I'm pleased to present the map prepared in 1941 detailing the 77 parcels included in the transaction.
