Long Island Motor Parkway 1908-1938

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Uploaded by on Apr 6, 2007

World's first parkway, this limited access private toll road ran from Fresh Meadows, Queens to Lake Ronkonkoma, Suffolk County, Long Island.

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  • Do you have millions of dollars? If so, welcome to Long Island!

  • it used to be a race track wish i could have seen a race

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  • Great job. I really enjoyed this video..

  • love the vidio. My grandfather grew up in Abertson and when I was a kid I remeber him telling me about watching the ford race cars flying by when he was a kid in the late 1920's. Still a long streach of the road that you can still see from Willis Ave at the VFW hall that i think runs dowm to Roslyn road. Still paved

  • I thought I saw the ghosts of my grandparents in their 1923 Durant driving towards Lake Ronkonkama! Thank you for a great documentary!

  • We are looking to expand on Roberts (and all the historians dedicated to The Parkway) by showing the roads integral part in history. A snap shot of the country first starting to embrace the culture of the automobile which would become a lifetime love affair. There is an amazing Great Gatsby era story to be told.

  • Thank you so much! A fascinating look at a piece of Americana.

  • Thank you so very much for the journey down "Memory Lane". I lived on Motor Parkway from 1947 until 1963, and then my husband and I live at

    2487 Motor Parkway.......until we moved to Florida in 1970. My father's family had a summer bungalow off Motor Parkway (Parkway Blvd.) from1923-1950's. . I remember the "Vanderbilt mansion" on lake as a young child. Our private beach was right next to the Vanderbilt property. . Thank you Mr. Miller for a wonderful, and deightful video. .

  • great !! love new york history !! thank you !!

  • I left LI after 50 years in Bethpage. GOT OUT IN 1995 JUST IN TIME. Live in Va. now for 80% less then it in LI and I'm in a gated community with 5 beaches a pga golf corase club house swimming pools, and all for $700 a year in dues, and $1002 dollors in taxes on my 1800 sq ft home

  • I expect a mass exodus from LI as soon as the economy picks up and folks there can sell their houses. Go south to lower taxes as businesses have also gone.

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