Tag: Lake Success
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The Toll Kiosks of the Motor Parkway
Bruce, according to my research, eight of the 20 Long Island Motor Parkway toll collection structures were kiosks, booths or shanties. As discussed last week, it is my opinion that the above kiosk at Nassau Boulevard (as seen on July 9, 1938) was originally built by the…
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The 20 Toll Collection Structures of the Long Island Motor Parkway-Updated 3/17/2018
One of the myths of the Long Island Motor Parkway’s history was that there were 12 lodges designed by prominent architect John Russell Pope and built to collect tolls and provide housing for the toll-takers and their families. The answer to the question of the number of toll lodges on…
The partially completed train crossing is obviously Mineola or Albertson. Staring at the picture it could easily be…