Vanderbilt Cup Races

Tag: Queens, Bridges, Farmway

Feb 21 2024
Kleiner’s Korner: A 1909 Motor Parkway Construction Update

Readers of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle received an update on the progress of constructing The Motor Parkway in August, 1909.
Sep 25 2023
Mystery Foto #38 Solved: A 1951 aerial of the Motor Parkway in Fresh Meadow, Queens

Frank Femenias challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
Sep 11 2023
Mystery Friday Foto #36: Solved; On the Long Island Motor Parkway looking West towards the Hollis Court Boulevard Motor Parkway Bridge at 209th Street.

Frank Femenias challenged you to identify this mystery Motor Parkway location
Apr 26 2023
The Femenias Report: Repaving of the Motor Parkway In Alley Pond and Cunningham Park

Reporter Frank Femenias has documented the status of the repaving of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway section of the Motor Parkway.
Mar 28 2023
Kleiner’s Korner: Arthur R. Pardington’s Queensboro Bridge Celebration Match Race

As part of the Queensboro Bridge opening celebration, Arthur R. Pardington proposed racing what he believed to be the first automobile made in America, the "Skedaddle" against the steam propelled "Devil Car".
Mar 18 2023
Kleiner’s Korner: The Queensboro Bridge Connection to the Motor Parkway (Part 2)

Part 2 of this 2 part series will provide details of events planned by Arthur J. Pardington and Willie K's. Automobile Committee as part of the opening celebration of the Queensboro Bridge.
Mar 07 2023
Kleiner’s Korner: The Queensboro Bridge Connection to the Motor Parkway (Part 1)

The construction of the Queensboro Bridge (aka the Blackwell's Island Bridge, 59th Street Bridge and today named the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge)connecting Manhattan with Queens County offered numerous opportunities to expand NY's economy and provide additional leisure activities to millions of people.
Oct 22 2022
Greg O’s Garage: Robert Moses and the battle to acquire land for Cunningham Park

In 1940, Robert Moses wanted to expand Cunningham Park. A look at some Moses documents from the Kroplick collection.
Sep 13 2022
Phase III reconstruction has begun of the Motor Parkway in Queens from 199th Street to Springfield Boulevard

Lynn Henry of the Alley Pond Striders reports that construction of Phase II of "reconstruction" of the Motor Parkway on the Brooklyn-Queens Bike Path has begun.
Aug 24 2022
The Queens section of the 1904 Vanderbilt Cup Race

Chal Danish: "I am researching Vanderbilt Cup Race history and am seeking the course routes of all the races and especially where it traversed Queens. Exactly where in Queens did it go before returning to Nassau!"!!!