Long Island Motor Parkway Bridge Series:#16 New Hyde Park Road Motor Parkway Bridge in Searingtown
Leaving Lake Success and skipping Robert Moses' second Motor Parkway bridge over Northern State Parkway, the next target for our series is the Hyde Park Avenue Motor Parkway Bridge in Searingtown. The road was later renamed New Hyde Park Road. Remember to click on the image to enlarge it.
This is the first Motor Parkway bridge where there is no known ground image or clear aerial. Does anyone have other images of this elusive bridge?
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
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These photos once again raise the question of whether the LIMP originally crossed UNDER NHP Road - changing to OVER NHP Road when Moses built the LIMP bridges over NSP.
Hi Mitch:
Not sure why the building of the Northern State Parkway would impact the new Hyde Park Road Bridge. Clearly, the photos indicate there was a Motor Parkway bridge that went over NHP Road. However, I do not have any images that documents the bridge prior to 1932. Can any LIMPers help?
Howard
Howard
Looking at the June ‘09 survey - there’s no difference between the NHP and Old Courthouse Rd intersections (and we obviously know the LIMP passes under OCR). The ‘24 aerial clearly shows the LIMP crossing OVER Marcus Ave & Lakeville Rd yet the NHP Rd intersection is vague (actually favoring the LIMP crossing beneath NHP Rd).
Mitch
Hi Mitch:
I have updated the New Hyde Park Road Bridge post that may support your theory.
Howard
Hi Howard,
Love the new site and the new “zoom” feature. One question: in the 1928 atlas, there are notations like “mon. set. Mar. 1930” and “Mon found 1930”. Do you know what those mean?
Hi Mitch:
Those notations indicate the location of monuments (markers) placed or found by survey markers. I have found several while walking the Long Island Motor Parkway trail.
Howard, Crocker was the purchaser, the Parkway was the seller. Also, the transaction was for a piece of property on the west side of Shelter Rock Rd. ,not off of New Hyde Park Rd. I know the survey says Hyde Park Rd., (Marcus Ave. was also refered as Hyde Park Rd. at the time) Adding to the confusion, Shelter Rock Rd. in the 1914 Belcher Hyde Atlas is also called Old Court House Rd. By the way, Marcus Ave. was given that designation by North Hempstead’s Supervisor Christ who named it after his son, Marcus around 1918. Hope this helps. Al Velocci
Hi Al:
Thanks! You are still my favorite co-author!
Howard
The other possibility is that the 1909 NHP Rd bridge was so narrow it can’t be distinguished in the aerials.
Subsequent research (in particular, page 1 of the Brooklyn Eagle of July 2, 1938) has me rethinking my replacement bridge theory. The NHP bridge must have been so narrow in width and short in length that it just doesn’t register on the ‘24 Fairchild aerial.