Long Island Motor Parkway Index
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S. Berliner, III's

Long Island Motor Parkway
Page Index

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Index to Pages about the

LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY

a.k.a. Vanderbilt Motor Parkway

Motor Parkway Panel Logo [If my discs weren't floppy, my photos wouldn't be LIMP!]

{LIMP does NOT refer to rigidity!} This site has now been visited times since the counter was installed.

The Main LIMP Page had overloaded and so it was easier to create this separate index page.

LIMP NEWS (Current Events) is now on Continuation Page 0!

Motoring on the Early Motor Parkway
  Motoring on the Early Motor Parkway
[photo provenance unknown]

A Motor Parkway Panel
has been convened to

keep the Long Island Motor Parkway alive in minds and museums.

If you were transferred here automatically by the MPP page, please see the index, below, or use the tour arrows at the bottom of this and all related pages.

For a tour guide to the Parkway, see the host's LIMP Tour Page.

Events of interest to LIMP afficionados are posted on the Motor Parkway Panel page.

RoW = Right-of-Way.

PAGE INDEX

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The Sequential Index, which follows, in more-or-less numerical page order, and a

Geographical Index, running eastward from the westernmost terminus in Queens County, through Nassau County, into western Suffolk County, and out to the eastern terminus at Lake Ronkonkoma.

Index to Matters Related to the Long Island Motor Parkway (not the LIMP itself).

I am working on a way to restructure my entire Motor Parkway coverage (following the history portion) with pictures and text in logical geographical West-to-East order as much as possible, from 193/199th Street at Nassau Boulevard (Horace Harding Boulevard/LIE) in Flushing (Fresh Meadows) out to Rosedale Avenue and the Petit Trianon at Lake Ronkonkoma.  As these pages overload and new ones are created and the files balanced by shifting data, the sequence has become far too jumbled and, thus, confusing, in spite of diligent cross-indexing.

SEQUENTIAL INDEX
to the Host's
Long Island Motor Parkway
Pages

This LIMP Index Page.

with LINKS to the LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY
    (moved from LIMP Page 0 on 11 Nov 00).
Affinity Organizations.   new.gif (01 Jun 04)

The Main LIMP Page:

HISTORY OF THE LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY
    now continued on the LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY HISTORY pages
        0, 1a, 2, and 3 (see separate History page indices, below).
    Who was George Vanderbilt?
PERSONAL LI MOTOR PARKWAY APOCRYPHA
    {moved to LIMP continuation page 4}.

LIMP Lodges Page:

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LIMP Toll Lodges
   : (or booths, kiosks, gates, or accesses) with
List of LIMP Toll Lodges and
List of LIMP Toll Gates.
List of LIMP Accesses.   new.gif (22 Oct 04)

Long Island Motor Parkway Maps.

1928 Soils Map Nassau-Suffolk.
Mitchel Field Aerial Views.
WWI Long Island Map.
(History page links follow the regular page links.)

On LIMP Maps Continuation Page 1:

Bethpage/Central Park Area "Map".   new (22 Nov 05)

On the Continuation Page A:

LIMP News - events of interest.
    (moved from LIMP page 0 on 05 Sep 02)
Levittown Grandstand Markers.
A Winter's Tale (Bagatelle/Deer Park areas).

Continuation Page 0:

LIMP POSTS (and reinforced concrete).
LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY TIMELINE
    {moved from main LIMP page 09 Mar 00}.
LINKS to the LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY
    {moved to this Index page 11 Nov 00}.
LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY BIBLIOGRAPHY (moved 21 Mar 00).
LIMP NEWS - Current Events

Continuation Page 1A:

LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY TODAY (moved from main page 17 Feb 00).
LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY BRIDGES (moved from main page 17 Feb 00)
    (see also LIMP RR Bridges page.
LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY at confluence of
    Marcus/Lakeville/NSParkway, continued on Page 9.

On Long Island Motor Parkway RR Bridges Page:

  Removal of Bridges Over the Long Island Rail Road in 1984
Main Line - Mineola/Carle Place
Oyster Bay Branch - Williston Park/Albertson/Roslyn)

Continuation Page 2:

More on the Long Island Motor Parkway.
Views of the Long Island Motor Parkway Today.
I. U. Willets Road Fragment.
Roslyn Road Fragment.
Bridge at Old Bethpage Village Restoration.
Horace Harding (of Boulevard fame).
Open LIMP Matters - Questions and Speculations.
    (moved to a new page 16 Mar 2002)

Continuation Page 3:

Crossings from Roslyn Road to the Maxess Road Bridge.

Continuation Page 4:

Old Courthouse Road Bridge, New Hyde Park.
Garden City Toll Lodge.
Crossings Continued - Maxess/Duryea Road Bridge.
More on Duryea Road Crossing.
LI MOTOR PARKWAY SPURS.
PERSONAL LI MOTOR PARKWAY APOCRYPHA {moved to page 5}.

Continuation Page 5:

LI MOTOR PARKWAY SPURS (moved from Page 4 - 07 Nov 99).
PERSONAL LI MOTOR PARKWAY APOCRYPHA
    (moved from Page 4 - 07 Nov 99).
LEVITTOWN GRANDSTAND AREA
DEAD MAN'S CURVE REDIVIVUS

Continuation Page 6:

LI MOTOR PARKWAY at WlLLISTON/ALBERTSON/SEARINGTOWN.
Dubious Artifact at NSP/NHP Road.
Queens Vignettes.

Continuation Page 7:

OLD BETHPAGE AREA Update.
    (moved from Page 6 - 18 Apr 00).
ROUTE 110 SAND PITS AREA Update.
    (moved from Page 6 - 18 Apr 00).
WHEATLEY HEIGHTS/HALF HOLLOW HILLS AREA

Continuation Page 8:

North Hills.
Mineola - Carle Place.

Continuation Page 9:

LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY at confluence of
    Marcus/Lakeville/NSParkway, continued
    (with Great Neck Toll Lodge).
Road Names - Old and New (and Bogus).

Continuation Page 10:

Additional WILLISTON-NEW HYDE PARK ROAD Documentation.
Bronx River Parkway.

On Continuation Page 11:

1941 Queens Aerial Photos.
i.Park Aerial Photos (Lakeville Road Bridge).
NEWSDAY Errata.

On Continuation Page 12:

Roslyn Toll Lodge.
John Russell Pope

On the Queens Page:

Western Terminus
    (193rd-199th St./Peck Av./Underhill Blvd./Horace Harding Blvd./LIE).

On Queens Continuation Page 1:

Alley Pond and Environs

On Queens Continuation Page 2:

Fresh Meadows Ballfields and Theater

On Queens Continuation Page 3:

Western Terminus - continued
    (193rd-199th St./Peck Av./Underhill Blvd./Horace Harding Blvd./LIE).

On the Western Nassau Page:

New Hyde Park Posts.

On the Western Nassau (County) Continuation Page 1:

{Unindexed so far.}

On the Central Nassau Page:

Roosevelt Field Area by Chopper (1950).
Roosevelt Field Area by air (1938).

On the Central Nassau (County) Continuation Page 1:

Russell and Old Country Roads.

On the Eastern Nassau Page:   new.gif (01 Jun 04)

The Missing Link! (?) (path of the LIMP RoW from Bethpage State Park
    to Battle Row Campground).   new.gif (01 Jun 04)

On the Suffolk Page:

Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma).
Half Hollow Hills Area - revisited.

On the LIMP Open Items Page:

Open LIMP Matters - Questions and Speculations.
    (moved to a new page 16 Mar 2002)

The LIMP Tour Page:

QUEENS COUNTY.
NASSAU COUNTY.
SUFFOLK COUNTY.

The LIMP History Page:

HISTORY OF THE LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY
    - continued from main LIMP page, with more photographs.

The LIMP History Page 0:

HISTORY OF THE LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY
    - continued, with more photographs, and
List of Toll Lodges and
List of Toll Gates
    (these lists moved from main LIMP History Page on 13 Feb 2002).

The LIMP History Page 1a:

HISTORY OF THE LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY
    - continued, with more photographs.
Who's Who (or Was)
    (moved from LIMP History Page 3 on 14 Jan 2002).

The LIMP History Page 2:

HISTORY OF THE LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY
    - continued, with more photographs.
The General Manager's House.
Sempre Vivolo (Brentwood Toll Lodge).

The LIMP History Page 3:

Motor Parkway Historical Miscellany
Motor Parkway Auto Tags/Plates

The LIMP History Page 4:

Oldest Parkway.   new.gif (30 Nov 05)
Nassau County Police Photos (moved from page 2 on 21 Nov 03).
LIMPuzzle.   new.gif (17 Nov 05)
Widening the Parkway.   new.gif (12 Dec 05)

LIMP-Vanderbilt Cup Race page:

(unindexed to date - please scroll away)

On the LIMP-Vanderbilt Cup Race continuation page 1:

1909 LIRR Special VC Timetable.
Other Vanderbilt Cup Maps. (moved from the main LIMP Vanderbilt Cup page on 18 Dec 02)
1908 Vanderbilt Cup Plaque Returns to Long Island   new.gif (29 Dec 05)
(balance unindexed to date - please scroll away)

BULLDOZERS ARE SUCH INDISCRIMINATE REVISIONISTS! - SB,III

There is a lot of automotive material on my ORDNANCE and HISTORY pages.

Also, if you like automotive history, see the links on the Automotive page.

LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY BIBLIOGRAPHY

A LIMP Bibliography is on the LIMP Bibliography page.   rev.gif (26 Oct 04)

GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX
to the
Long Island Motor Parkway

 [This is to be tied in with the LIMP Tour page
  and with other Motor parkway panel member's sites.]

{This is only a first try and will be refined.}

Long Island Motor Parkway Maps.

1941 Queens Aerial Photos:

from the final western teminus to the Queens-Nassau County line.

Western Terminus

(193rd St./Peck Av./Underhill Blvd./Horace Harding Blvd./LIE).

Queens Vignettes.

LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY at confluence of Marcus/Lakeville/NSParkway.

North Hills.

Dubious Artifact at NSP/NHP Road.

I. U. Willets Road Fragment.

Old Courthouse Road Bridge, New Hyde Park.

LI MOTOR PARKWAY at WlLLISTON/ALBERTSON/SEARINGTOWN.

Additional WILLISTON-NEW HYDE PARK ROAD Documentation.

Removal of Bridges Over the Long Island Rail Road
  in 1984 (Oyster Bay Branch - Williston Park/Albertson/Roslyn)

Roslyn Road Fragment.

[Crossings from Roslyn Road to the Maxess Road Bridge.]

Mineola - Carle Place.

Removal of Bridges Over the Long Island Rail Road
  in 1984 (Main Line - Mineola/Carle Place)

Garden City Toll Lodge.

LI MOTOR PARKWAY SPURS (mention of a Mitchel Field spur).

LEVITTOWN GRANDSTAND AREA

DEAD MAN'S CURVE REDIVIVUS.

Bridge at Old Bethpage Village Restoration.

OLD BETHPAGE AREA Update.

ROUTE 110 SAND PITS AREA Update.

Crossings Continued - Maxess/Duryea Road Bridge.

More on Duryea Road Crossing.

WHEATLEY HEIGHTS/HALF HOLLOW HILLS AREA with
  Half Hollow Hills Area - revisited.

LI MOTOR PARKWAY SPURS (Commack Spur/Harned Road).

Eastern Terminus (Lake Ronkonkoma).

LIMP Exploration - wanderings and work on the RoW.   new.gif (01 Jan 06)

More detail to follow.

Index to Matters Related
to the
Long Island Motor Parkway

Horace Harding (of Boulevard fame).

I. U. Willets Road Fragment.

Dubious Artifact at NSP/NHP Road.

Bronx River Parkway.

LINKS to the LONG ISLAND MOTOR PARKWAY

(moved from LIMP Page 0 - 11 Nov 00)

Steve Anderson has an excellent Long Island (Vanderbilt) Motor Parkway page, with more photos and links, on his NYC Area Roads, Crossings, and Exits site, where you will also find a rough map and more quotations from NEWSDAY's Sylvia Adcock and info on, and links to, Web Rings (not my thing) for East Coast Roads, Interstate Highways, New York City, and Long Island.

Steve's site led me to Michael Abbey's great Vanderbilt Parkway {sic} page, with yet more photos and links and a somewhat-blurry 1925 map, and, in turn, to:

Vince Fitzgerald's Motor Parkway page, on his outstanding Hempstead Plains Long Island historical site.

Steve notified me (05 Feb 99) of another site with great photos and reasonably accurate captions; Jeff Saltzman's Streetlight Site's Photo Gallery's Park Scenes area with "Vanderbilt" {sic} Motor Parkway in Queens, with "The present western terminus between 67th & 64th Aves", "Two views midway between 69th & 67th Aves", "Two views at 199th St & 69th Ave.", and "Dead end at Clearview Expwy."

Kevin Walsh's outstanding Forgotten NY site blossomed, on its "Street Scenes" section, with a Motor Parkway page (unbeknownst to me - sorry Kevin); he focuses on the Queens segment.

Denis Byrne has a new Parkway page at http://www.geocities.com/denisbyrne/motorpk.html.

I had mistakenly reported here that Fred Hadley (who gives illustrated lectures on the LIMP) may have put up a "Friends of the Long Island Motor Parkway" site; he assured me (14 Oct 99) it just ain't so!  Someone may be doing a video about the LIMP (it's not noted videographer Mike Laurence, who did the recent one about early aviation on LI; I called and asked).

The New York City Department of Parks & Recreation has a rather nice LIMP site (slightly innaccurate).

AFFINITY ORGANIZATIONS   new.gif (01 Jun 04)

Affinity organizations include:

    Parks & Trails New York

(formerly New York & Conservation Association),

and the

    Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference.

A proposal to Nassau County, filed 15 Apr 2005, for conservation and restoration of the LIMP RoW, may be found on my own domain at http://sbiii.com/limpnass/limpncpk.html.   new.gif (28 Feb 06)

Good links to general automotive history and related matters are on my Automotive page.

1906 LONG ISLAND MAPS - For links to a huge set of segments of the large-scale 1906 E. Belcher Hyde map of Long Island, done by Albert Volk, "Map Engraver" of Philadelphia, click here.  There is a staggering amount of turn-of-the-20th-century (pre-WWI) LI information, such as all the LIRR junctions, and LIRR Pres. Austin Corbin's estate on map 15, just SSE of Deer Park.  The resolution is not quite good enough to read all property owners's names but many are quite legible, such as William K. Vanderbilt, Jr.'s property (Deepdale) at Lakeville.

The linked tour arrows at the bottom of each page follow this order (or should*):  Home, History and History 2 and 3, 0, 1A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11, and the LIMP-Vanderbilt Cup page (this Index Page and the Bibliography are not in the tour sequence but shown/linked separately).

[* - Please let me know if they do not.]

The Main LIMP Page had overloaded and so it was easier to create this separate index page.

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