Tag: Creedmoor Motor Parkway Bridge
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Mystery Friday Foto #26 Solved: Previously unpublished Fotos of the Clinton Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Garden City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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Interactive 1924 Aerial Survey of New York City and the Motor Parkway in Queens & Lake Success
David Stephan has forwarded links to interactive high-resolution aerials of the July 1924 Fairchild Survey of New York City. The aerials were conducted for the City of New York Board of Estimate and Apportionment and are available on the New York Public Library website. Here are scans of the 1924…
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Mystery Foto #23 Solved: Planning for the Extension of Union Turnpike in Queens (Circa 1931/1932)
This weekend's Mystery Foto was a great aerial used to plan a major road.
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Mystery Foto #19 Solved: Creedmoor State Hospital in Queens (Circa 1927-1931)
Frank Femenias challenged you again to solve this recently discovered Mystery aerial.
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Mystery Foto #52 Solved: The Creedmoor Motor Parkway Bridge in 1928
Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society member Syd Lefkoe challenges you to solve the final Mystery Foto of 2018.
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The Union Turnpike/Long Island Motor Parkway Pedestrian Underpass
My favorite co-author Al Velocci found a 1929 blueprint showing plans for a pedestrian underpass under the Motor Parkway and Union Turnpike. It turns out that I had two construction plans of the proposed underpass in my survey files.
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Remnants of Long Island Motor Parkway Discovered in Queens
Eric Shaffer has forwarded photos of apparent remnants of the Motor Parkway that he found in Queens.
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #9 The Creedmoor Bridge in Queens Updated: 10/22/16
When the 48 miles of the Motor Parkway were completed in 1926, a total of 60 bridges were built by William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and his associates over and under the parkway. Going west to east, the ninth bridge from the Western Terminus at Nassau Boulevard (Horace Harding Boulevard) was…
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