Tag: Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge
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Cradle of Aviation Exhibit: Roosevelt Field Aviators at the Mall
Roosevelt Field Aviators: Exhibit will be on display at the Roosevelt FieldĀ® shopping center from through March 13th.
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Mystery Friday Foto #26 Solved: Previously unpublished Fotos of the Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City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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Greg O’s Garage: Wrecks of The Long Island Motor Parkway including a racer practicing for the 1925 Indy 500
There is much reported and documented about the race cars that crashed throughout the Cup races and trials, but much less is known about the hundreds of public accidents along the parkway.
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Cradle of Aviation Archives: An amazing 1936 aerial of the Motor Parkway, Roosevelt Field and Roosevelt Raceway
Through the joint efforts of the Cradle of Aviation and VanderbiltCupRaces.com, treasures of Long Island history continue to be uncovered including this 1936 aerial.
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Dave’s “Excellent Day on the Motor Parkway in Garden City”
This time without his exploring partner Sammy, Dave Russo "went over to GC last week to check the status of one of the great LIMP remnant locations." Here is what he found walking east from Clinton Road to Ring Road.
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Kleiner’s Korner: The Removal of the Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge
Following numerous accidents near the Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City, village officials and Nassau County in 1938 agreed to dismantle the bridge and its abutments.
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1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #4: Garden City
From 1958 to 1967, unidentified couple(s) documented their tours of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the fourth of this series, these seven photos feature our favorite parkway in Garden City.
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The Garden City News: Historians concerned about Village construction over the Motor Parkway
Reporter Rikki Massand has provided an excellent update on the construction over the Motor Parkway north of Stewart Field in today's Garden City News. The article includes comments from Al Velocci (my favorite co-author), Cyril Smith, Bill Bellmer and me.
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Then & Now: A Return to the Long Island Motor Parkway in Garden City
Three years ago, eight members of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society documented the Garden City section of the road from Raymond Court to Clinton Road. Here is a Then (2017) & Now comparison with photos taken today.
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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.
Thanks to Howard Kroplick and http://www.vanderbiltcup races.com for Keeping American Automotive Racing History & my…