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	Long Island Motor Parkway
		The Long Island Motor Parkway was a private toll road that eventually stretched for 45 miles from Queens to Lake Ronkonkoma, one of the first concrete roads in the nation, and the first highway to use bridges and overpasses to eliminate intersections.
		Long before the Long Island Expressway, the Long Island Motor Parkway was the first high-speed route from Queens to Suffolk County.
		In April 1938, the Motor Parkway was officially closed to motorists, and the deeds were sold to county officials in exchange for the cancellation of the parkway's $90,000 tax debt.
	www.nycroads.com /history/motor (2054 words)

	Northern State Parkway
		To buffer residents from the visual and noise impacts of the parkway, a "natural-design" noise barrier was installed along the 2.5-mile stretch of the widened parkway.
		The Northern State Parkway Extension was to continue south along the western edge of Connetquot State Park (the former Sportsmen's Preserve), where a new entrance to the park was to be constructed from the parkway.
		The parkway extension was to terminate at the Heckscher State Parkway between EXIT 43A (Suffolk CR 17-Carleton Avenue) and EXIT 44 (NY 27-Sunrise Highway) in Islip Terrace.
	www.nycroads.com /roads/northern (3111 words)

	Long Island Motor Parkway
		The Long Island Motor Parkway may well be one of the world's first roads that could be described as a "high-speed, limited-access, reinforced-concrete, landscaped parkway"; it is certainly the first in the United States.
		The Long Island Motor Parkway was the brainchild of William K(issam).
		The Motor Parkway was also noted for its twelve unique little toll houses, termed "toll lodges", which were two-story architectural gems and included rather nice living quarters with two bedrooms for the toll takers and their families.
	home.att.net /~berliner-ultrasonics/limtrpwy.html (2564 words)

	Pedal Pushers Online \| Resurrecting the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway
		The baby is the renaissance of Long Island's historic Vanderbilt Motor Parkway in the form of a multi-use trail.
		The route of the Long Island Motor Parkway from Bethpage Park to the outer edge of Eisenhower Park passes behind homes, many of which now utilize the right of way as their defacto alleyway installing illegal gates and driveways.
		The Long Island Motor Parkway Trail would be a multi-use trail of better than 45 miles which would also serve to further connect proposed, but as of yet unimplemented plans for about eight north/south bike trails proposed by the Long Island Non-Motorized Transportation Survey.
	www.pedalpushersonline.com /?CID=988 (2158 words)

	Reflections On Suffolk County Pre-History - 1914
		After the disasterous "Battle of Long Island" the American troops were forced into retreat from the Island for the remainder of the War and many Long Island units simply ceased to be - and now retribution was on the "Whigs" by the British and Loyalists for their earlier indignties and perscecutions.
		New York City became the British headquarters and it was Long Island's fate to house, feed and maintain the army for the remainder of the war.
		Many who had fought in the disastrous Battle of Long Island had nothing for it, when once the invaders were established in the Island, but to return to their homes and families and submit to the inevitable.
	www.longislandgenealogy.com /reflections.html (13022 words)

	GrandPrix.com > Features > Feature > The story of Willie K
		Motor racing was always - and remains - a sport for the rich.
		Vanderbilt's private road, the Long Island Motor Parkway, grew to be 45 miles long, running from the edge of New York City to midway down Long Island where he built an inn which was a copy of the Petit Trianon from the Palais de Versailles.
		At the same time the Long Island Motor Parkway was superseded by the toll-free Northern State Parkway, which took away much of its traffic.
	www.grandprix.com /ft/ft12753.html (1123 words)

	Long Island Motor Parkway Nassau County Park Page
		The Long Island Motor Parkway, begun in 1908 and opened in 1911, is a significant historic treasure and engineering marvel, one of the world’s first, and North America’s very first, high-speed, limited-access, reinforced-concrete, landscaped, restricted-use, toll parkways.
		The intent of this nomination is to preserve the right-of-way of the Long Island Motor Parkway through central Nassau County, to prevent any further sale, deterioration, destruction, or non-recreational development of the RoW, and to convert the remanent segments to a hiking and biking trail and historical strip park.
		The total length of the LIMP right-of-way (RoW) was 45 miles, which, less Harned Road, means that a swath 43 miles long extends all the way from central Queens to Lake Ronkonkoma, most of which is already in regular use for recreational hiking and biking, both formally and informally.
	sbiii.com /limpnass/limpncpk.html (6176 words)

	Transit Authority - April 22, 2005 - The New York Sun
		The term parkway signifies that the highway's planners tried to create a motif for the road and attempted to fit it into its natural surroundings.
		Parkways usually have signs unique to the specific roadway and fitting a special theme, and medians that feature manicured plant life, to create a park effect - though many planners have found that exceedingly difficult to achieve because nature normally is not easily observed at 50 or 60 mph.
		The now-defunct Vanderbilt Parkway, later called the Long Island Motor Parkway or LIMP, was constructed the following year but was replaced by the Northern State Parkway in 1934 and was closed in 1938.
	www.nysun.com /article/12670 (515 words)

	The Age of the Auto
		The Long Island Rail Road had run full trains all night long to bring the curious to the Vanderbilt Cup Race, the first international auto race in the United States.
		Called the Long Island Motor Parkway, it also was the first highway designed exclusively for automobiles and the first to use overpasses and bridges to eliminate intersections.
		Tensions mounted as the racing teams flocked to Long Island, and a chauffeur for the Pope Toledo Co. who was testing the course was thrown out of his car and killed when he nearly collided with a farm wagon near Hicksville.
	mlloyd.org /gen/pdington/text/hs701a.htm (2207 words)

	Long Island Motor Parkway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was planned by William Kissam Vanderbilt II to stretch for 70 miles as a route in and out of New York City as far as Riverhead, the county seat of Suffolk County, New York, and point of division for the north and south forks of Long Island.
		The Long Island Motor Parkway was a toll road.
		The parkway hosted races on its first open portion in 1908 and on the full road in 1909 and 1910, but another accident in the latter year, killing four with additional injuries, caused the New York Legislature to ban racing except on race tracks, ending the parkway's career as a racing road.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_Island_Motor_Parkway (745 words)

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		This is an overlay of a 1984 U.S.Geological survey on to a segment of a 1925 Nassau County land map.
		The Motor parkway entered Eisenhower park (1969 name.) By the present day area of the commercial Tennis Courts.
		Moving back to the east side of the park it appears that the LIMP actually used the same space as Salisbury Park drive, actually vice versa.
	www.hempsteadplains.com /mpkyovly.htm (228 words)

	Just Curious - Long Island Information
		Long Island Railroad - Look at the Introduction for a brief history of the "busiest railroad in North America".
		Long Island (Vanderbilt) Motor Parkway - Before Robert Moses built his network of arterial highways, there was the Long Island (Vanderbilt) Motor Parkway.
		Long Island Parkway System - The Long Island Parkway System was envisioned as great ribbon parks, stretching east-west and north-south across Long Island, providing scenic access and linkage between the state parks then under development, such as Jones Beach, Bethpage and Sunken Meadow.
	www.suffolk.lib.ny.us /youth/jcLIHist.html (695 words)

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		To the east of this overpass was a Motor parkway toll house.
		The Motor Parkway continued east through the Park and after Newbridge avenue it swung north into a Grandstand area.
		The Motor Parkway was abandoned to Nassau County in 1938.
	www.hempsteadplains.com /motrpkwy.htm (432 words)

	Art's Long Island Motor Parkway Site: Let's Keep LI's History Alive
		Route of the Long Island Motor Parkway - 1910
		Panel member Sam Berliner III has provided very detailed coverage of the Long Island Motor Parkway and without his information, most of what is on this website would never have been photographed and researched.
		The older ones which generally have the Motor Parkway hilighted in blue are circa 1947-1950 with the new ones from the 1990s.
	www.freewebs.com /limparkway (372 words)

	Pedal Pushers Online \| The Vanderbilt Motor Parkway Project - Edgewood Cleanup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Promoted under the auspices of a campaign to Resore the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway as a Multi-use trail, the morning dawned to find more than 50 people straining their backs to remove a small portion of the detritus that 50 years of neglect and illegal dumping had left in the Preserve.
		Originally the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway was a reinforced concrete roadway used alternatively as a race track, toll road, and private excursion route for the Vanderbilt family.
		The Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, if completed, will provide a central recreational, and alternative commutation link straight through the heart of one of the most dense population areas in the nation.
	www.pedalpushersonline.com /index.php?CID=919 (537 words)

	Bronx River Parkway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, although construction on the Long Island Motor Parkway began a year later, a section of the Long Island road opened for traffic before the end of 1908, beating the Bronx River as the first limited access automobile highway to be put into use.
		The parkway runs from Story Avenue and the Bruckner Expressway in the Soundview section of the Bronx to Kensico Dam Plaza and Park, north of White Plains, where it turns into the Taconic State Parkway.
		Today, a seven-mile section of the Bronx River Parkway in Westchester County is closed to motorist traffic from 10am to 2pm every Sunday in April, May, June, September and October (with the exception of Memorial and Labor Day weekends), allowing bicyclists to venture along the scenic road.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bronx_River_Parkway (672 words)

	The Smithtown Sheraton - Long Island, NY
		Completely renovated in 2001 and centrally located on the north shore of Long Island, the Sheraton Long Island Hotel is mid-way between Manhattan and Montauk, just off the Long Island Expressway (I-495).
		It is the ideal location for travel to all points on Long Island, including Islip McArthur Airport and the area's beautiful beaches.
		With meeting and banquet facilities to suit any occasion, we are the recognized venue of choice for Long Island's meeting and social events.
	www.longislandsheraton.com (146 words)

	American GP - William K. Vanderbilt
		Called ``Long Island's Appian Way'' in promotional material, it was a road ahead of its time.
		The Vanderbilt Cup races were born in 1904 to be run over the roads of Long Island and Queens in New York.
		Vanderbilt continued to compete in various speed trials and was an avid supporter of motor sports until his death in 1944.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/willie.htm (295 words)

	Motor Parkway Panel
		It is the intention of the Motor Parkway Panel to work with government, civic and historical groups, and commercial organizations to preserve artifacts of the LIMP, including surviving sections of original roadway and bridges, and to seek out other artifacts, reminiscences, maps, photographs, films, and records of the Parkway.
		There already is a consensus among panel members that the old Motor Parkway bridge on the grounds of the Old Bethpage Village Restoration immediately west of the Nassau/Suffolk border should be cleaned up, placarded, and made accessible to OBVR visitors.
		It is an important part of our Long Island history because it was the first motor parkway in the nation to ise reinforced concrete, landscaping, banked turns for high-speed driving, safety guard rails, special highway police and a non-skid surface.
	home.att.net /~berliner-ultrasonics/limpanel.html (2080 words)

	East Norwich Civic Association History
		Adrian Block, a Dutch trader, determines that Long Island is an island after losing a vessel and being stranded temporarily.
		Long Island divided into counties of Kings, Queens, Suffolk.
		Benjamin Thompson publishes a history of Long Island which describes Norwich as situated about midway between the villages of Jericho and Oyster Bay, and at the present termination of the turnpike leading to Flushing.
	www.eastnorwich.org /history.htm (452 words)

	long island motor parkway action registration
		PTNY has chosen the Motor Parkway as one of its Key LI projects, and is meeting with community groups and local officials to try and gather citizen input.
		It is VITAL that all remaining LI Motor parkway roadbed and historic structures such as remaining bridges and posts be protected and preserved.
		For various reasons, including the fact that master builder Robert Moses thought the Motor Parkway was "a white elephant", the counties of Nassau and Queens decided to close the road to auto traffic.
	www.geocities.com /denisbyrne/motorpk.html (3252 words)

	Auto Racing
		France continued to lead in development of both cars and motor sports with a series of one-day speed races on existing roads beginning in 1897.
		The first American oval-track race, held at the Rhode Island State Fairgrounds in Cranston in 1896, was won at an average speed of 26.8 mph (43.1 km/h).
		Although Americans participated in and became important sponsors of early road races both in the United States and in Europe, closed-circuit racing was favored in the United States almost from the start.
	www.angelfire.com /ab6/catcastle/Auto_Racing.html (1021 words)

	Letters to the Editor
		Many know, too, that for some years thereafter, the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway was employed as a toll road and that the section that ran through Levittown was used by Charles Lindbergh and other members of the Long Island Aviation Country Club.
		In 1938, William K. Vanderbilt sold the Long Island Motor Parkway for back taxes after Robert Moses threatened to route his proposed Northern State Parkway parallel to Vanderbilt's toll road; matching it exit for exit.
		Fifty-four years later, in 1984, Nassau County sold sections of the Long Island Motor Parkway in Levittown to a company named Giordano and Venteau - including the 2.7 acre lot between Heron and Skimmer Lanes in Levittown that had been the site of the Grandstand for the 1908-11 races.
	www.antonnews.com /levittowntribune/2004/01/16/opinion (1188 words)

	Events & Lectures
		At the Society's presentation, speaker Howard Kroplick narrated his audience through the crazy days of the Races (1904-1910) before they were discontinued on Nassau County local roads, because of the many dangers involved and the deaths and serious injuries to participants and on-lookers.
		Kroplick is a research volunteer at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, and a member of the Vanderbilt Race Cup Centennial Committee and the Long Island Motor Parkway Panel.
		The only remaining Motor Parkway toll house is now the home of the Garden City Chamber of Commerce, located on the eastern end of Seventh Street.
	www.gardencityhistoricalsociety.org /Events.htm (899 words)

	Vanderbilt's great-grandson was racing pioneer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1908, Vanderbilt began building the Long Island Motor Parkway.
		The high-speed, private toll road stretching 45 miles from Queens to Suffolk County, N.Y, featured 65 steel-and-concrete bridges and overpasses; its long, straight stretches were well suited for racing.
		Later that year, more than 250,000 spectators lined the first leg of the Long Island Motor Parkway to watch the Vanderbilt Cup.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /News/register/Feb12_01/story6.html (141 words)

	historyofuse
		The lighting sector was an intricate stepping stone of America's early developing economy and hosted the majority of jobs within the area, however, the area stayed essentially rural throughout the 19th century and attracted residents with its natural beauty.
		As the lighting sector moved inland toward the larger city, William Vanderbilt’s privately run Long Island Motor Parkway was built in its place in 1908, a harbinger of the age of automobile travel that would continue to shape the park through the 20th century.
		While the effort was initially to preserve the pristine environment of Alley Pond Park, development of the recreational sector of the park promoted construction of the Long Island Expressway and Cross Island Parkway in the 1930s, and this filled in much of the marshland.
	www.uvm.edu /~levangel/historyofuse.html (420 words)

	Hauppauge Fire Department, Long Island NY
		In the late 1920's, Hauppauge was one of the most satisfying rural communities on Long Island.
		The object of this group was to patrol the area from Commack to East Hauppauge so as to prevent and report fires during dry spells when forest fires were most likely to occur.
		The protection area was bounded on the North by Jericho Turnpike, on the West by Babylon - Commack Road, on the South by the Long Island Motor Parkway and on the East by the cement road known as Carleton Avenue or Wheeler's Road.
	www.hauppaugefire.org /history.html (1361 words)

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