Dec 24 2009

Today: Motor Parkway and Vanderbilt Cup Race Course Scenes


Happy holidays and a healthy and joyful 2010 !


Howard Kroplick


Enjoy these photos taken on December 24, 2009 of the Motor Parkway and the Vanderbilt Cup Race courses.



 

Lakeville Road, Lake Success- Site of a tire station during the 1905 Vanderbilt Cup Race



 

Long Island Motor Parkway right-of-way in Lake Success



 

The Old Courthouse Road Bridge over the Motor Parkway in Manhasset Hills



 

View from the Old Courthouse Road Bridge looking west on to the Motor Parkway right-of-way



 

The former home of the Motor Parkway's General Manager in Garden City



 

Motor Parkway right-of-way in East Williston between the Oyster Bay LIRR tracks and Roslyn Road



 

Site of the grandstand and Press Box for the 1908-1910 Vanderbilt Cup Races in Levittown



 

Site of the 1908 ground-breaking ceremonies for the Motor Parkway with the eastern abutment of Jerusalem Road Bridge (Stewart Avenue) in Bethpage still in place.



 

Deadman's Curve in Bethpage



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