Though the LIE runs over spots that used to be the Motor Parkway in Queens....They are NOT the same! Motor parkway still exists in most of western suffolk, and cris crosses the LIE(495) Twice....
You are thinking of The Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, today know as simply Motor Parkway. This picture is of the Long Island Motor Parkway, which is 495 today.
Sorry Fred, Wrong! An overlay of the maps at the Lake Ronkonkoma Historical society show only that Motor parkway flirted with the LIE 495 in a few places.
You are thinking of The Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, today know as simply Motor Parkway. This picture is of the Long Island Motor Parkway, which is 495 today.
No, that headline is wrong. It's not the LIE. Parts of it still exist as Motor Parkway, a separate but nearby road that I live right off of. It intersects with the LIE at two points in Hauppauge, and ends in Lake Ronkonkoma.
In Queens the LIE was formerly Horace Harding Blvd., quite a distance north of the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway (shown in photo). I lived near Union Turnpike, just a block south of the Motor Parkway in Hollis Hills.
The Motor Parkway ran parallel to Union Turnpike then turned North and ran alongside the Clearview (still does as a bicycle path) and ended at the Expressway behind the school by the Clearview and L.I.E.
that's NOT motor parkway it's the New Jersey meadowlands. that view would be obstructed by thousands of buildings in Brooklyn & queens. It's Prime New Jersey SWAMPLAND. even looks like empire state building as seen from New Jersey. the larger mound of buildings on left is midtown, empire state building (built in 1931) is in middle and skyscrapers in financial district are far right. bronx is far left. that's New Jersey Meadowlands around 1931
You are thinking of The Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, today know as simply Motor Parkway. This picture is of the Long Island Motor Parkway, which is 495 today.
Sorry Anonymous you're wrong. Those are not buildings in the background, it's trees from what is now the town of Salisbury NY. Also, trees from what is now Eisenhower are to the left. They are taking the picture from a bridge that went over the roadway at Jerusalem Ave.
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As kids we would walk along the old parkway before they built the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway and see what looked like what was left of an overpass.
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DeleteYes it does. We built forts in what we called "The Woods" it was actually old Motor Pkwy remnants.
DeleteThough the LIE runs over spots that used to be the Motor Parkway in Queens....They are NOT the same! Motor parkway still exists in most of western suffolk, and cris crosses the LIE(495) Twice....
ReplyDeleteYou are thinking of The Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, today know as simply Motor Parkway. This picture is of the Long Island Motor Parkway, which is 495 today.
DeleteSorry Fred, Wrong! An overlay of the maps at the Lake Ronkonkoma Historical society
ReplyDeleteshow only that Motor parkway flirted with the LIE 495 in a few places.
You are thinking of The Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, today know as simply Motor Parkway. This picture is of the Long Island Motor Parkway, which is 495 today.
DeleteNo, that headline is wrong. It's not the LIE. Parts of it still exist as Motor Parkway, a separate but nearby road that I live right off of. It intersects with the LIE at two points in Hauppauge, and ends in Lake Ronkonkoma.
ReplyDeleteIn Queens the LIE was formerly Horace Harding Blvd., quite a distance north of the Vanderbilt Motor Parkway (shown in photo). I lived near Union Turnpike, just a block south of the Motor Parkway in Hollis Hills.
ReplyDeleteThe Motor Parkway ran parallel to Union Turnpike then turned North and ran alongside the Clearview (still does as a bicycle path) and ended at the Expressway behind the school by the Clearview and L.I.E.
Deletethat's NOT motor parkway it's the New Jersey meadowlands. that view would be obstructed by thousands of buildings in Brooklyn & queens. It's Prime New Jersey SWAMPLAND. even looks like empire state building as seen from New Jersey. the larger mound of buildings on left is midtown, empire state building (built in 1931) is in middle and skyscrapers in financial district are far right. bronx is far left. that's New Jersey Meadowlands around 1931
ReplyDeleteYou are thinking of The Vanderbilt Motor Parkway, today know as simply Motor Parkway. This picture is of the Long Island Motor Parkway, which is 495 today.
DeleteSorry Anonymous you're wrong. Those are not buildings in the background, it's trees from what is now the town of Salisbury NY. Also, trees from what is now Eisenhower are to the left. They are taking the picture from a bridge that went over the roadway at Jerusalem Ave.
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