Tag: Marcus Avenue
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Oct 02 2023
Mystery Foto #39 Solved: A successful 1951 Fairchild aerial over Lake Success
Did you identify this Fairchild mystery aerial?
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Apr 25 2022
Mystery Friday Foto #17 Solved: The Motor Parkway under construction north of Marcus Avenue in Lake Success (Circa 1911)
The Vanderbilt Museum Archives challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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May 08 2021
The fate of Willie K’s Deepdale mansion in Lake Success
Janet: "On another thread, I took a ride up Lake Road in Great Neck last week an saw that the WK Vanderbilt home had been torn down with a new house on the site. Was there mention of this that I missed?"
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Dec 22 2020
1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #2: Lake Success
From 1958 to 1967, an unidentified couple documented their tour of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the second of this series, these nine photos feature our favorite parkway in Lake Success.
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Jun 15 2020
Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Did you identify this Fairchild Aerial Survey?
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Apr 01 2020
Interactive 1924 Aerial Survey of New York City and the Motor Parkway in Queens & Lake Success
David Stephan has forwarded links to interactive high-resolution aerials of the July 1924 Fairchild Survey of New York City. The aerials were conducted for the City of New York Board of Estimate and Apportionment and are available on the New York Public Library website. Here are scans of the 1924 aerials of the Motor Parkway in Queens and Lake Success.
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Mar 02 2013
Documenting W.C. Fields on the Long Island Motor Parkway in 1925
At Thursday's meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, people were fascinated by the post of the 1925 film "Sally of the Sawdust". As a follow-up to several requests, here is my documentation of where I believe D.W. Griffith filmed W.C. Fields on the Motor Parkway.
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Oct 01 2012
Newsday 1954 Article: “Motor Parkway ‘Ghosts’ Haunt Northern State”
Art Kleiner has forwarded a 1954 Newsday article on the two Motor Parkway bridges built in Lake Success by Robert Moses with the construction of the Northern State Parkway in 1931. The Motor Parkway bridge parallel to Lakeville Road is documented below.
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Jun 19 2012
An Amazing Aerial of Deepdale Estate and the Marcus Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Lake Success
This 1927 aerial shows a spectacular view of the Deepdale Mansion, former Lake Success home of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and the Marcus Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge.
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Dec 08 2011
Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #13 Marcus Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Lake Success
With the documentation of the 12 Motor Parkway Bridges in Queens completed (18% of the total 65 bridges built), it is time to cross the border into Nassau County. First up is the Marcus Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge located in Lake Success.
