Tag: New York State Police Headquarters
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Oct 08 2024
Mystery Friday Foto #40 Solved; A Guest Lodge Fit for a Vanderbilt
Did you identify this Vanderbilt structure?
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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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Jan 06 2014
Mystery Foto #49 Solved: A View of Lake Success in 1934
To celebrate 2014, the first Mystery Foto was another vintage Long Island aerial.
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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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Dec 11 2009
The Fairchild Collection of the NY State Archives-North Hempstead
The latest favorite website on VanderbiltCupRaces.com The Fairchild Aerial Survey Collection in the New York State Archives,forwarded by Bill Bellmer, provides hundreds of historic aerial photos of New York. Last Thursday's post highlighted several Motor Parkway aerial surveys in Queens. A few more Motor Parkway treasures can be found in the North Hempstead Collection:
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Oct 27 2009
Willie K’s Guest Lodge in Lake Success
Tim, thanks for the question. Like many Long Islanders, I remember that beautiful building but knew little of it history.Here is what I found out with the help of Dr. Jack Binder, the village historian of Lake Success.
