Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Ground-breaking Ceremony

May 03 2021
Mystery Foto #18 Solved: Motor Parkway officials at the Jerusalem Road field office circa May 1908

Garden City Archives challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.
Mar 16 2020
Mystery Foto #11B Solved: The Garden City Archives: Scouting the Ground-Breaking Ceremony Location

The Garden City Archives challenged you to a brand new Mystery Foto.
Nov 02 2019
Kleiner’s Kolumn:Update-Historical Markers for the Long Island Motor Parkway & Vanderbilt Cup Races

One way to keep the memories of the Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races alive is to memorialize their existence with historical markers throughout Long Island.
Jul 17 2019
Documenting the Location of the 1908 Ground-Breaking Ceremony for the Motor Parkway

Our wonderful mapper Frank Femenias questioned the location of the June 6, 1908 ground-breaking ceremony for the Motor Parkway in Central Park (Bethpage) in Mystery Foto #28.
Jul 15 2019
Updated: Mystery Foto #28 Solved: Bethpage’s Important Section of the Motor Parkway & Zorn’s

Brian McCarthy challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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.
Jun 15 2017
Answers to the Questions Raised at the Connetquot Public Library Presentation

It was an excellent turnout at last night's presentation at the Connetquot Public Library. Here are the answers to the questions raised during the lively discussions of the Vanderbilt Cup Races and the Long Island Motor Parkway.
Aug 17 2016
Frederick Gilbert Bourne- President of Singer Sewing Machine & a Long Island Motor Parkway Director

Oakdale resident and historian Philip Selvaggio has identified Frederick Gilbert Bourne in several of the photos from the June 6, 1908 ground-breaking ceremony for the Long Island Motor Parkway.
Jan 05 2016
New Arcadia Images of America Book: Bethpage by John Logerfo

Lifelong Bethpage resident John Logerfo has authored a new Arcadia book celebrating the village of Bethpage.Chapter Four documents the Long Island Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Races including 16 images from my collection.
Nov 04 2014
Motor Parkway Trails #3: Bethpage Along the Central Railroad Right-Of Way

The third of the Motor Parkway Trail series for "exploring, biking and hiking" documents a 1.06 mile section of the road in Bethpage which parallels the right-of-way for the Central Railroad.