Tag: Long Island Expressway
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Aug 26 2025
Friday Mystery Foto #44 Solved: A Familiar Aerial of Lake Success
Al Velocci challenged you to identify this aerial of Lake Success
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Jul 06 2024
The Planning and Construction of the Long Island Expressway Through the Roslyn Area: 1953 – 1959
Roslyn Landmark Society trustee Mitchell Schwartz, of Flower Hill, has published an extensive history report for the Roslyn Landmark Society on the construction of the Long Island Expressway through the Roslyn area (between exits 36 and 39) in the 1950s. The report highlights the planning and construction of the highway through the area.
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Mar 01 2024
Video of the Week: The Evolution of the Long Island Parkway System
Chris Barba posted this graphic video in 2021 showing how the Long Island parkway system evolved from 1927 to 2021. Sorry, the evolution of the Motor Parkway from 1908 to 1938 was not included.
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Jan 11 2023
LongIsland.com: Crazy Facts About the Long Island Expressway
LongIsland.com has posted an article on crazy facts about the Long Island Expressway. I bet you didn't know the official three names for the LIE.
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Jan 15 2018
Updated:Mystery Foto #2 Solved:An Aerial of Fresh Meadows from the New York Life Archives Circa 1950
This weekend's Mystery Foto provided a unique view of the Motor Parkway right-of-way in Queens.
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Dec 05 2017
Mystery Foto #48 Solved: William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.‘s Deepdale Golf Club in Lake Success in 1926
Did you solve the first Mystery Foto of December? Where did the year go?
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Apr 30 2016
Exclusive: 1956 Aerial Views of the Construction of the Long Island Expressway in Lake Success
In October 1956, Skyviews Survey was commissioned to document the construction of the Long Island Expressway.
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Feb 04 2010
Motor Parkway Trail Update: February 5, 2010
As reported last year, the contract for developing a master plan for a Motor Parkway Trailway in Nassau County has been awarded to VHB Engineering, Surveying and Landscape Architecture, P.C. Members of the Long Island Motor Parkway Panel, including myself, met with VHB, LIPA and Nassau officials yesterday to provide input and the comments submitted on VanderbiltCupRaces.com.
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Oct 22 2009
The Motor Parkway Bridges over the Northern State Parkway
Ron, with the construction of the Northern State Parkway in the early 1930s, Robert Moses agreed to build two Motor Parkway bridges over the new parkway, one just west of Lakeville Road and another west of New Hyde Park Road. At this section of the Motor Parkway, the right-of way did not cross the Long Island Expressway. Here's the amazing supporting photos.
