Long Island Motor Parkway (Vanderbilt Parkway)

USA / New York / Bellerose Terrace /
 LIMP - Long Island Motor Parkway, invisible, do not draw title
Most of the road from Queens to Western Suffolk County has been obliterated by homes, other roads and structures, or has returned to nature. Some parts can be traced, some bridges still exist.

The western portion in Queens was reopened a few months after closure as a bicycle path from Kissena Park to Alley Pond Park, but the highway itself survives as a continuous county road, Vanderbilt Motor Parkway (County Route 67) from Half Hollow Road in Half Hollow Hills to its original end in Ronkonkoma, just a few blocks short of the lake. Signage along the way also identifies it variously as Vanderbilt Parkway and Motor Parkway.

Though not a limited access road since 1938, most of the road was recognizable into the 1970s, while new intersections continued to be cut through it. In the approximate middle of the road in and around Islandia, New York, office construction and other commercial building has widened the road and made it appear a typical highway. Nonetheless, other portions, especially at the western and eastern ends of the surviving road can be enjoyed for its greenery and graded and banked turns and rolling hills, albeit at considerably less than racecar speeds.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Island_Motor_Parkway
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Coordinates:   40°44'12"N   73°45'15"W

Comments

  • Thank you for the information you have supplied. I believe that it was my addition to this map that prompted you. I have grown up upon this path in Queens, and am glad it was entered into this database.
  • No problem Paul.
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