Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Jerusalem Avenue

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  Feb 29 2020

  Kleiner’s Korner: The Long Island Motor Parkway and Levittown

  Long before there was a Levittown, the Motor Parkway ran straight through this part of the Hempstead Plains. However, unlike many other parts of the roadway after its close, this section remained almost untouched by developers.

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  Nov 13 2019

  Garden City Archives: The “Snake Turn” of the 1908-1910 Courses of the Vanderbilt Cup Races

  As a follow-up to Mystery Foto #45, my favorite co-author Al Velocci and I visited Garden City historian Bill Bellmer and reviewed the one-of-a kind 1908 Motor Parkway Construction Book. Below is documentation of the "Snake Turn" of the 1908-1910 Vanderbilt Cup Race courses.

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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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  Jun 05 2017

  Mystery Foto #22 Solved: A Long Island Motor Parkway Footprint East of Jerusalem Avenue In Levittown

  Dave Russo forwarded this photo of a footprint of a section of the Motor Parkway right-of-way.

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  Mar 07 2016

  Mystery Fotos #10 Solved: Road Testing the Motor Parkway During the Summer of 1908

  The Garden City Archives challenged you to identify this series of unique photos of three automobiles on a road test prior to the Motor Parkway's opening.

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  Dec 29 2014

  Mystery Foto #100 Solved:The Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in Hempstead Plains Under Construction in 1908

  Art Kleiner forwarded this Mystery Foto and needed your assistance in identifying this Motor Parkway Bridge.

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  Nov 23 2013

  Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series #40: Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains

  The 40th bridge in the series documenting the 65 bridges built by the Long Island Motor Parkway is the Jerusalem Avenue Bridge in the Hempstead Plains (now Levittown).

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  May 18 2010

  Then & Now: Potential Nassau Historical Markers on the Motor Parkway Trail

  Nassau County is currently developing a master plan for a continuous multi-use Motor Parkway Trail. Part of the plan calls for the placement of markers "at the location of historical remnants and will serve as a way to educate the public on the history of the corridor as the original