Tag: Motor Parkway Atlas
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #24 Robbins Lane Parkway Bridge Updated 3/14/2017
The 24th bridge in the series documenting the 65 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the parkway bridge over Robbins Lane in East Williston.
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series:#21 Willis Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Williston Park
Our 21st bridge in the series documenting the 60 Long Island Motor Parkway bridges is the "parkway bridge" over Willis Avenue in Williston Park. Thanks to Bob and Ruth Valentine for providing the only known existing photo of the bridge.
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series:#20 Old Searingtown Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Searingtown
One of the important pioneering features of the Long Island Motor Parkway was the first construction of bridges associated with an automobile road to eliminate grade crossings. A total of at least 65 bridges were built for the Motor Parkway from 1908 to 1926 over crossroads (designated a parkway bridge),…
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series:#19 I.U. Willets Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Searingtown
Going west to east, the 19th bridge of the Long Island Motor Parkway bridge series was built to allow access to I.U. Willets Road in Searingtown.
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series:#16 New Hyde Park Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Searingtown
Leaving Lake Success and skipping Robert Moses' eastern Motor Parkway bridge over Northern State Parkway, the next target for our series is the Hyde Park Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Searingtown. The road was later renamed New Hyde Park Road.
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Archives: Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges- Nassau County
Links to posts related to the Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges in Nassau County (Updated: January 25, 2012):
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Archives: Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges- Queens
Links to posts on Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges in Queens Updated: December 2, 2011):
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Original Survey Maps of the Long Island Motor Parkway Discovered!
Over the last 80 years, the survey firm of Barrett, Bonacci and Van Weele has acquired many Nassau and Suffolk survey firms, including several which conducted work for the Long Island Motor Parkway, Inc. Within their historical files were 572 survey maps of the Motor Parkway dating from 1907…
Never figured out why a gatehouse was erected in this area.