Tag: Melville
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Jun 03 2009
The Motor Parkway Bridge over Broad Hollow Road in Melville
Edith, when Al Velocci and I wrote The Long Island Motor Parkway, we wanted to include many photos which have never been published before. Just one month prior to our deadline, we discovered this rare 1935 photo of the Broad Hollow Bridge looking north in the archives of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum.
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Oct 08 2008
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 Motor Parkway is not as easy as you may think.
