Tag: Levittown
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Apr 11 2026
Kleiner’s Korner: February 1926 Motor Parkway News
The next installment of the Motor Parkway 100 years ago!
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Apr 29 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #17 Solved: The Lone Newbridge Road Bridge Abutment in 1955
Al Velocci challenged you identify this lone bridge abutment.
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Apr 19 2025
Marty Himes at the Vanderbilt Cup Races Grandstands in Levittown
The late, great, race car driver and Himes Museum of Motor Racing Nostalgia curator, Marty Himes, visited the 1908-1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races Grandstands location in 1993 and 1997.
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Mar 25 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved: A Levittown Aerial
Did you identify this Levittown aerial?
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Apr 19 2023
Kleiner’s Korner: A Return to the Long Island Motor Parkway (Part 1)
A visit back to Long Island this month (April, 2023) provided me the opportunity to visit some of my favorite Motor Parkway locations.
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Apr 08 2023
Kleiner’s Korner: Constructing Three Motor Parkway Extensions
Three extensions to the Motor Parkway were detailed in the May and June, 1910 editions of "The Motor World" and "Good Roads" Magazines. Construction and material used were documented.
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Apr 03 2023
Mystery Friday Foto #13 Solved: #J13 Maxwell and #G28 Sharp-Arrow competing in the 1908 Sweepstakes at the Bloomingdale Road Motor Parkway Bridge
Did you identify these two racers going head to head?
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Jul 11 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #28 Solved: An early view of the Long Island Aviation Club and a special parking area within the Motor Parkway right-of-way.
Frank Femenias challenged you to find the special mystery in this Mystery Foto.
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Mar 09 2022
Kleiner’s Korner: Nassau County Surveys of Motor Parkway Property Transferred or Disposed Of (Levittown)
Following its closing in 1938, former property of the Long Island Motor Parkway was acquired and/or released by Nassau County. Surveys provided by the Nassau County Dept. of Public Works provide documentation of these land transfers.
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Mar 05 2022
Greg O’s Garage: An actual strip of the Motor Parkway sold
In 1947, a small strip of the Motor Parkway was sold to William Levitt and Sons.
