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Aug 06 2024
Mystery Friday Foto #31 Solved: An 1884 Long Island Rail Road Flyer
Did you identify this piece of Long Island history?
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Jun 04 2024
Mystery Friday Foto #22 Solved; Blueprints to Remove the East Williston Motor Parkway Railroad Bridge
Pat Babor challenged you to identify these blueprints.
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Apr 01 2023
Greg O’s Garage: Plans and aerials that document the removal of the Motor Parkway railroad bridges in Nassau County
Pat Babor has forwarded 1982 MTA plans to remove two Motor Parkway railroad bridges in Mineola and East Williston/Williston Park.
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Mar 27 2023
Mystery Friday Foto #12 Solved; The Oyster Bay LIRR Bridge Williston Park & East Williston Abutment
Did you solve this mystery bridge abutment?
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Jan 16 2023
Mystery Friday Foto #2 Solved: A surviving section of the Motor Parkway off Willis Avenue in Williston Park
Richard Panchyk challenged you to identify this weekend's mystery photo.
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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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May 01 2019
Sam & Dave’s “Excellent 2019 Vanderbilt Day”- #5 Williston Park
Our favorite Motor Parkway father and son team Dave and Sammy Russo journeyed once again on their bikes to explore our favorite parkway from Lake Success to Melville. In the fifth post of the series, Sammy and Dave explored the Williston Park section to the Oyster Bay LIRR tracks of the Motor Parkway.
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Jul 25 2017
Malverne Treasure #1: A Letter from William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.
Over 150 Long Island Motor Parkway surveys, maps, blueprints and drawings discovered by Roy Knoernschild in a Malverne basement are being categorized, repaired and scanned. During this process, another gem was discovered-a signed 1911 letter from William K. Vanderbilt Jr. sent to an assistant engineer for the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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May 18 2016
My Motor Parkway Story #3: Bob Valentine and the Williston Park Historic Marker
In the third of the My Motor Parkway Story series, Bob Valentine, assisted by his wife Ruth, provides the background behind the Motor Parkway historic marker located on Willis Avenue in Williston Park.
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Sep 30 2013
Mystery Foto #35 Solved:Williston Park/East Williston/Albertson Section of the Motor Parkway in 1938
Master Mystery Foto detective Greg Oreiro has submitted this Mystery Foto aerial of a section of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
