Long Island Motor Parkway Annual-Fee Plates


The Long Island Motor Parkway would eventually connect Fresh Meadows, Queens, to Lake Ronkonkoma in Suffolk County, a total of 48 miles. A 5” x 5” porcelain annual-fee plate was issued to permit unrestricted year-round use on the Parkway. Number 100 was assigned to William K. Vanderbilt Jr. Reflecting its poor profitability and the availability of new free public parkways, the Long Island Motor Parkway closed for good on Easter Sunday, 1938.