Tag: Westbury Avenue
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Oct 07 2025
Mystery Friday Foto #50 Solved: The Westbury Avenue Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge Under Construction
Did you identify the Westbury Avenue Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge under construction?
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Jul 03 2023
Mystery Friday Foto #26 Solved: Previously unpublished Fotos of the Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City
Did you solve this weekend's holiday Mystery Foto?
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Apr 29 2020
Sammy & Dave’s “Excellent 2020 Vanderbilt Day”: Scouting the South Side of Westbury Avenue in Mineola/Carle Place
Not surprisingly, the planned 2020 adventures of Sammy and Dave Russo, our favorite Motor Parkway son and father exploring team, have been suspended. However, Dave Russo was able to scout out this Motor Parkway location for future exploration...hopefully this year.
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Feb 12 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Documentation of the Long Island Motor Parkway Bridges in Nassau County (#28-#42)
Part II of the Nassau County Motor Parkway bridges takes us from the Westbury Avenue Bridge to the Wantagh Avenue Bridge.
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Oct 23 2018
Clinton Robertson Photo Album: Westbury Avenue Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge in Mineola/Carle Place
In the first of the new series of photos from surveyor Clinton A. Robertson's recently discovered construction album, the unique Westbury Avenue Motor Parkway/Trolley Bridge on the border of Mineola and Carle Place is featured.
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Oct 16 2018
Exclusive: Surveyor Clinton Robertson’s Long Island Motor Parkway Construction Photo Album
While working as a surveyor on the Long Island Motor Parkway in 1908 and 1909, Clinton A. Robertson (above) documented the Motor Parkway construction and his fellow workers with his trusty camera.
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May 28 2018
Mystery Foto #21 Maybe Solved: The Clinton Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge Under Construction in 1909?
Gordon Bainbridge challenged you to identify this previously unpublished photo of a Motor Parkway Bridge under construction in 1909.
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Feb 10 2016
Amazing Aerials from the Cradle of Aviation: #3 The Earliest Known Aerial of the Motor Parkway
The third exclusive aerial from the Cradle of Aviation Museum collection documents Hazelhurst Field #1 (later Roosevelt Field) in 1919. It is likely the earliest aerial known to date of the Long Island Motor Parkway.
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Oct 14 2015
Sam & Dave’s “Excellent Motor Parkway Adventure” V: East Williston to Mineola
On April 4, 2015, Dave Russo and his 10-year old son Sam experienced a one-day 38-mile bike tour on the Long Island Motor Parkway. In the fifth post of this series, Sammy and Dave exploring the Long Island Motor Parkway from East Williston to Mineola.
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Jun 23 2014
Mystery Foto #73 Solved: A Spectacular 1933 Aerial of Hempstead and North Hempstead
Gary Hammond forwarded this amazing aerial for this weekend's Mystery Foto.
