Tag: Marcus Avenue
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Mystery Foto #39 Solved: A successful 1951 Fairchild aerial over Lake Success
Did you identify this Fairchild mystery aerial?
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Mystery Friday Foto #17 Solved: The Motor Parkway under construction north of Marcus Avenue in Lake Success (Circa 1911)
The Vanderbilt Museum Archives challenged you to solve this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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The fate of Willie K’s Deepdale mansion in Lake Success
Janet: "On another thread, I took a ride up Lake Road in Great Neck last week an saw that the WK Vanderbilt home had been torn down with a new house on the site. Was there mention of this that I missed?"
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1958-1967 tours of the Long Island Motor Parkway #2: Lake Success
From 1958 to 1967, an unidentified couple documented their tour of the Motor Parkway with over 70 photos taken from the Western Terminus in Queens to the Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma). In the second of this series, these nine photos feature our favorite parkway in Lake Success.
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Mystery Foto #24 Solved: A 1952 Aerial View of Lake Success
Did you identify this Fairchild Aerial Survey?
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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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Documenting W.C. Fields on the Long Island Motor Parkway in 1925
At Thursday's meeting of the Long Island Motor Parkway Preservation Society, people were fascinated by the post of the 1925 film "Sally of the Sawdust". As a follow-up to several requests, here is my documentation of where I believe D.W. Griffith filmed W.C. Fields on the Motor Parkway.
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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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An Amazing Aerial of Deepdale Estate and the Marcus Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Lake Success
This 1927 aerial shows a spectacular view of the Deepdale Mansion, former Lake Success home of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr., and the Marcus Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge.
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Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series: #13 Marcus Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Lake Success
With the documentation of the 12 Motor Parkway Bridges in Queens completed (18% of the total 65 bridges built), it is time to cross the border into Nassau County. First up is the Marcus Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge located in Lake Success.
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