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On 02 November 2004, Nassau County (Long Island, New York) residents overwhelmingly approved an ENVIRONMENTAL BOND ACT PROGRAM which established an Environmental Program, which is a dedicated fund to preserve open space, improve parkland, reduce storm water pollution and cleanup brownfields throughout the County. The County then sought nominations from the community for specific properties and projects to be considered for funding. The Motor Parkway Panel responded, submitting a nomination by the deadline of 15 Apr 2005; since that material is now public information, I am posting the text and maps and photos here for your information. Please; support our effort by contacting the Nassau County Executive, Tom Suozzi, as noted at Links at the end of this page, and expressing your concern. - SB,III
[Very little effort has been expended to reproduce the nomination format;
however, pagination of the text is retained for ease of reference.]
ENVIRONMENTAL BOND ACT PROGRAM
2005 NOMINATION FORM
Table of Contents {NOT part of nomnination -
Nomination Forms pp. 1-23 - Pages:
[Pages 18-22 are Attachment 1; page 23 is the signature sheet.]
Detailed map of Bethpage State Park to Battle Row Campground and through Old Bethpage Village Restoration inserted after page 13 (covering those two segments).
Index Map showing the extent of each noted and prioritized segment inserted after page 8 (Prioritization), along with enlargements of the western and eastern portions for ease of legibility (numbered I1-I3).
Map numbers M1 though M7 (Mid-Years), also attached in West-to-East order, present the LIMP as it appeared on a 1960 Hagstrom atlas; most modern streets appear and the RoW does also, with some overlapping, facilitating reference.
Map numbers C1 though C8 (Current), also attached in West-to-East order, present the LIMP RoW as it appeared in a 1999 Hagstrom atlas.
Maps Q1-Q2 show full extent of the LIMP in Queens County (1998).
Maps S1-S3 show full extent of the LIMP in Suffolk County.
Representative photographs (T1-T10 - see photos index).
ENVIRONMENTAL BOND ACT PROGRAM
2005 NOMINATION FORM
You may submit more than one property or project. A separate form needs to be completed for each one. Nomination forms should be sent to:
Nassau County Environmental Bond Act Program
Nominations must be postmarked by April 15, 2005. Only mailed forms will be accepted. Electronically transmitted forms and faxes will not be accepted.
I would like to nominate a property or project for the following category (you may check more than one):
Community in which property/project is located: Nassau County from Lake Success to Old Bethpage (see Description of the Property, for intervening communities).
Parcel name and specific address or location (tax number(s) if known): Right of way of the former Long Island Motor Parkway (including Sec. 9 - Blk. 613 - Lot 39, Roslyn Road, East Williston - other parcels to be determined - see Description of the Property)
Property size: Various; primarily 100' wide by entire west-east length of Nassau County
Current owner and contact information: Primarily Nassau County - Department of Real Estate Planning and Development (Shelley Cohen. Carl Schroeter/571-3975)
[Attach a map to indicate location and photographs, if possible.]
Description of the property or project being proposed:
The Long Island Motor Parkway, begun in 1908 and opened in 1911, is a significant historic treasure and engineering marvel, one of the world’s first, and North America’s very first, high-speed, limited-access, reinforced-concrete, landscaped, restricted-use, toll parkways. It runs from Flushing (Fresh Meadows) in Queens, across central Nassau County, and through western Suffolk County to the western shore of Lake Ronkonkoma, a distance of some 43 miles. The right-of-way in Queens County has been placed on the National and New York State Registers of Historic Places. We hope to extend that listing to the entire RoW and to also list it on the Historic Architectural and Engineering Record (HAER) and on the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) and the remanent structures on the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS); theHAER, HALS, and HABS collections are among the largest and most heavily used programs of the Library of Congress.
The intent of this nomination is to preserve the right-of-way of the Long Island Motor Parkway through central Nassau County, to prevent any further sale, deterioration, destruction, or non-recreational development of the RoW, and to convert the remanent segments to a hiking and biking trail and historical strip park.
Note: To assist in describing the property or project and the reasons for recommendation (see next page), please refer to the evaluation forms for the factors that will be considered in evaluation and selection.
The Communities in which property/project is located: Nassau County from Lake Success through Manhasset Hills, Herricks, Searingtown, Albertson, Williston Park, East Williston, Mineola, Old Westbury, Carle Place, Garden City, Salisbury. East Meadow, Levittown, Bethpage, and Old Bethpage (see Description of the Property).
Most of the LIMP RoW runs along high ground, so that much of it serves a local and even Island-wide N-S watershed divide; streams running away from the RoW eventually lead to Long Island Sound or to the Great South Bay and it’s adjacencies. By retaining the RoW as open space, we not only continue and improve the recreational aspect of its utilization but also provide additional rainwater catchment.
As one of the very few remanent open spaces with significant tree stands, shrubbery, and grassland, the LIMP RoW has served, since 1938, and continues to serve, as a major recreational area for residents living nearby and also for residents who travel distances to enjoy both its historicity and the open space.
As an historic treasure, the LIMP, when suitably monumented and placarded, will vastly improve the education of our public as to the unique heritage Long island played, and continues to play, in automotive and aviation history. Eventually, it is expected that interpretive displays will be added to further that advantage.
The excellent hiking and jogging (and biking) afforded by this extensive open space has lent itself for three generations to healthy exercise for children, adults, and seniors. Except for a very few gentle grades, most of thr LIMP RoW is at level and only a very few spots will require any ramping for access by the physically-challenged.
Because consideration for immediate action under the Nassau County Environmental Bond Act of 2004 requires that specific projects be defined such that action can be taken immediately to greatest advantage and to open portions for use by the summer of 2005, there are two different prioritizations involved, to PRESERVE and to PREPARE. These can also be described by "URGENCY" and "IMMEDIACY". The detailed explanation of these priorities follows in the further descriptions by locality.
This is a unique public facility the enhancement of which will benefit all residents of Nassau County, from local neighborhoods, villages, and all three towns, to full County access, and will draw tourists to the County as well. The more we can develop the LIMP as major historic artifact, the more tourism it will encourage.
Most of the RoW has survived in usable form with little or no maintenance for 67 years; it is anticipated that the majority of the segments of the upgraded Motor Parkway will be very-low-maintenance areas. A network of volunteers (the Motor Parkway Panel) already exists to form a core upon which to build to assist in such maintenance as may be required. More elaborate facilities with greater needs can be postulated but are beyond the provenance of this nomination; however, such possibilities should always be kept in mind as opportunities to enhance utilization arise.
As a County property, maintenance has been a County responsibility all these many years and the record shows that almost no expenditures were needed at all.
The RoW traverses a wide range of populations and neighborhoods but in almost all areas it runs past or through densely populated areas or heavily used areas (such as businesses, shopping centers and malls, and even passes through two of the biggest parks in Nassau County (the County’s Eisenhower Park and and Bethpage State Park).
Description of the property or project being proposed:
Different segments of the LIMP RoW have been used very heavily over the years, as evidenced by wear on the grass and soil; a few others are only unused because of lack of access and they should become well used as the novelty of a cross-County trail becomes known. This is borne out by the high usage of the Greenbelt Trail and the various paths alongside the State Parkways.
Funding is expected from the Federal Healthy Hearts program and from the Transportation Improvement Program of the New York State Department of Transportation
No property acquisition is envisioned under this nomination (although long-range planning may eventually result in such on a very limited basis in the distant future).
The Long Island Motor Parkway offers Nassau County an unprecedented opportunity to enhance its historical impact, its recreational facilities, its educational advantages, and its touristic appeal at very low cost; this opportunity should not be ignored or minimized.
The Long Island Motor Parkway was originally conceived by William K(issam). Vanderbilt, Jr., and associates, and firmed up at a meeting at the Garden City Hotel in 1906. The original intention was to build a private auto road and race course to run from the Queens County line at Lake Success to Riverhead, with turning loops at each end; this never came to pass and the final road ended at Lake Ronkonkoma instead. Among the many investors in the venture were William K. Vanderbilt (Sr.), Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, Isaac Merritt Singer, and even the Long Island Rail Road. Construction commenced in 1907, both easterly and westerly, at Central Park (now Bethpage) and the section in what is now Levittown and Bethpage (from Whaleneck/Merrick Avenue to Round Swamp Road) was rushed to completion in time to be included in the course of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race (portions were utilized in 1909 and 1910, as well, and the site of the grandstand is monumented at Orchid Street and Skimmer Lane in Levittown).
Description of the property or project being proposed:
The road was substantially completed by 1911, with two major changes; the pavement was originally solid concrete and only 18' wide The concrete began cracking at the first frost and the width was quite inadequate for speeding automobiles to pass each other safely; these conditions were remedied by cutting the concrete into sections and filling the joints with tar and then adding a course of macadam over the entire roadway, and by pouring 2' wide aprons of concrete on each side (bringing the pavement width to 22' - these additions can still be seen). In 1911, the road was lengthened westerly into Queens County to Black Stump Road (later Rocky Hill Road - today’s Springfield Boulevard) and, in 1928, again lengthened to terminate at Nassau Boulevard (later Horace Harding Boulevard - today’s Long Island Expressway south service road, just east of Fresh Meadows), at Fresh Meadow in Flushing (at today’s 195th Street), conveniently near Hillside Avenue, the direct connection with Hoffman Boulevard (today’s Queens Boulevard) and the East River ferries and the Queensborough Bridge to Manhattan. Also in 1928, the Commack Spur was constructed just east of Commack Road northward to Jericho Turnpike; that spur is today’s Harned Road. At various times, access was also made for I. U. Willets’s estate at Lake Success, Roosevelt Flying Field, Camp Mills, Mitchel Field, the Aviators Country Club, and other facilities. The total length of the LIMP right-of-way (RoW) was 45 miles, which, less Harned Road, means that a swath 43 miles long extends all the way from central Queens to Lake Ronkonkoma, most of which is already in regular use for recreational hiking and biking, both formally and informally.
Among the more notable features of the LIMP were elegant Toll Lodges, two of which survive today (in East Williston and Garden City) in almost-original condition, and two (in Lake Success and Mineola) in greatly-altered condition, all in Nassau County; in addition, the General Manager’s house survives substantially original in Garden City.
Description of the property or project being proposed:
These will be described more fully in the balance of this form (which proceeds in west -to-east order). There are several original bridges surviving in excellent condition in Queens County, across 73rd Avenue and across Bell Boulevard, Springfield Boulevard and along the RoW immediately north of Union Turnpike. Unfortunately no bridges survived intact in Suffolk County and only two in Nassau County, one carrying the LIMP RoW under the far western end of Old Court House Road in New Hyde Park (near the southeast corner of the intersection of New Hyde Park Road and the Northern State Parkway) and the other across what was the northern end of Winding Way in the southern part of Nassau County’s Old Bethpage Village Restoration.
Barely surviving the Depression and finally forced to close on Easter Sunday (17 April) of 1938 by Robert Moses’s free, parallel Northern State Parkway, the LIMP RoW was turned over to Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties in lieu of payment of some $80,000 to $90,000 in back taxes. Queens turned the road over to the New York City Department of Parks and it was reopened in July of that year as a hiking and biking trail, from the western terminus to Winchester Boulevard, which it remains to this day. Suffolk County still operates the final easternmost 14-mile stretch as County Road 67, variously known as Motor Parkway, Vanderbilt Parkway, and Vanderbilt Motor Parkway. Major sections of original paving still survive in Nassau County in various stages from full preservation to serious decay; it is one of the most critical purposes of this nomination to prevent any further destruction of this historic wonder and valuable open space. Much of the LIMP RoW through Nassau County was used by the Long Island Lighting Company (LILCO) as an easement for high-tension power lines and is still in such use by LILCO’s successors, the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) and Keyspan Energy Systems.
Description of the property or project being proposed:
Unfortunately, a number of encroachments were made in Nassau County; however, the Parks & Trails New York organization has surveyed the Nassau County portion and found acceptable means of bypassing all the encroachments, meaning that a viable hiking and biking trail 43 miles long could exist with Nassau County as its central focus.
Ancillary (and adjacent in two places - in Levittown and Bethpage) to the LIMP is the RoW of the former Central Railroad of Long Island (CRR), now owned by the Long Island Rail Road, thus, in turn, by the Metropolitan Tramnsportation Authority (MTA); it is expected that a separate nomination to cover this extensive greensward will be made by other organizations. The CRR RoW also carries LILCO/LIPA/Keyspan high-tension lines on easements. The adjacency of these two rights of way affords alternate paths through Levittown and Bethpage and the two (or more) nominations should be coordinated in any actions taken.
For convenience of reference, the Long Island Motor Parkway can be considered as twenty-eight (28) logical separate segments in the three counties, five in Queens, fifteen in Nassau, and eight in Suffolk, namely (in west-to-east order - those in Queens and Suffolk are included for reference and appear on Attachment 1):
Prioritization is denoted thus: [P1] through [P8]
Description of the property or project being proposed:
N04 - "Williston" - Searingtown Road to LIRR Oyster Bay Branch; is the S boundary of Senator John D. Caemmerer Park, traverses Williston Park mainten-ance area N of William Street, Willis Avenue, Williston Park firemen’s field.
Description of the property or project being proposed:
N07 - "Mineola" - Jericho Turnpike to LIRR Main Line; the Mineola Toll Lodge (incorporated in 264 Rudolph Road) is on the S side of Jericho Turnpike, opposite Donna Drive, a beautiful straight path long-used by local residents runs W of Bruce Terrace from just S of the Turnpike at the W end of Raff Avenue to Westbury Avenue, where the RoW is on the W side of the former Corvette’s lot and requires significant clean-up to reach the LIRR Main Line.
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[To see the original map, in color, from which this was taken, click here.]
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Description of the property or project being proposed:
Note: To assist in describing the property or project and the reasons for recommendation (see next page), please refer to the evaluation forms for the factors that will be considered in evaluation and selection.
Nassau County Environmental Bond Act Program
Q01 though Q05 in Queens County:
Q02 - "Cunningham" -across a modern bridge over Francis Lewis Boulevard, the RoW goes through the portion of Cunningham Park just north of Union Turnpike, and continues easterly under the Clearview Expressway and over Hollis Court Boulevard (today’s Hollis Court Terrace), Bell Boulevard, Rocky Hill Road (today’s Springfield Boulevard - location of the western terminus from 1911 to 1928), and into Alley Pond Park at Cloverdale Boulevard between 77th Avenue and Kingsbury Avenue.
Q04 - "Glen Oaks" - from Winchester Boulevard, the RoW crosses the grounds of the Queens Children’s Hospital on both sides of Commonwealth Boulevard and then continues as the south service driveway of the Queens Children’s Zoo-cum-Farm to Little Neck Parkway. East of Little Neck Parkway,, the RoW continues as a city street, 74th Avenue, bisecting the playground in the center of the Glen Oaks housing complex, and ending at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
Q05 - "Hillside" - the RoW is incorporated into the Motor Parkway Parking Lot of the former Hillside Hospital (now the Long Island Jewish Medical Center) and continues along the northerly boundary of the medical center to the Nassau County line just southwest of the intersection of Northern State Parkway and Lakeville Road.
S03 - "Wheatley" - crossing Ruland Road, the RoW then crosses Wellwood Avenue just S of a traffic light at the intersection of Baylis, Ruland, Pinelawn, Old East Neck, and Wellwood Avenues, then continues along the S side of Colonial Springs Road to the vicinity of the Post office where it crosses Colonial Springs Road and heads N on the W side of Conklin Avenue which then turns into Bagatelle Road.
S04 - "Bagatelle" - running up a long stretch of original RoW on the W side of Bagatelle Road, it crossee to the E side just S of the LIE (I-495), runs through school grounds, disappears into the LIE, reappears on the N side of the LIE at the E side of Fox Lane, crosses Half Hollow Road and becomes Vanderbilt Parkway, Suffolk County Route 67.
S05 - "Half Hollow" - a short distance E on Route 67 and there is an historoical marker on the n side in front of the Half Hollow Hills Public Library. It then continues across Deer Park Avenue (Route 231, site of a toll lodge), and De Forest Road/Carl’s Straight Path, running just S of fatal rival Northern State Parkway (again) and reaching Commack Road.
S07 - "Expressway" - S of the LIE, the RoW rsumes its eastward course, crossing Joshua’s Path and Wheelers Road, then jogging N across the LIE and crossing Veterans Memorial Highway (Route 454) and Blydenburgh Road in Islandia, and Nickol’s and Terry Roads and ending at Rosevale Avenue on the W shore of Lake Ronkonkoma. Directly across Rosevale Avenue was the famed Petit Trianon Restaurant/Inn, the destination for eastbound travelers, designed by John Russell Pope, which unfortunately burned to the ground in 1957; however, immediately to the S is a rest home that was Pope’s creation for the dormitory for LIMP and restaurant workers and one can readily see the magnificence of Pope’s work.
S08 - "Ronkonkoma" - the eastern terminus of the Long Island Motor Parkway, at Rosevale Avenue on the western shore of Lake Ronkonkoma, site of the Petit Trianon Restaurant, with the original LIMP and restaurant workers’s dormitory by John Russell Pope still standing as a rest home.
[Note that a private stone residence, Chateau d'Hiver (Winter House), commissioned by Charles Gould as his estate's stone gardener's cottage and designed by John Russell Pope in 1909, still exists, fully restored, just off the LIMP a bit west of Deer Park Avenue at 495 Wolf Hill Road in Dix Hills.]
Reasons for recommendation (e.g., historic preservation, wetlands, wildlife habitat, parkland,
water quality improvement, brownfield clean-up, etc.)
There are two primary reasons for recommendation and prioritization, namely HISTORIC PRESERVATION and PARKLAND, to preserve a priceless and irreplaceable piece of the world’s, America’s, New York State’s, Long Island’s, and Nassau County’s technological heritage and to make it accessible to the general public as valued and useful open space for recreational and educational use. The most immediate need is for a moratorium on any further disposition or non-recreational use of the remanent RoW and for restoration and preservation of a few segments that are in immediate danger and, coincidentally, opening them for public use by the Summer of 2005.
These recommendations and this entire nomination is consistent with the stated goal of the Motor Parkway panel, "to keep the Long Island Motor Parkway alive in situ and in minds, and in museums". The more of the first and second and the less of the third, the better for Nassau County and its residents.
References:
Is supplemental funding available (e.g. federal, state, private)? If so, specify source and amount:
Yes; it is expected that Federal funding from the Healthy Hearts program will be provided; administered through the Parks & Trails New York organization, as well as from the Transportation Improvement Program of the New York State Department of Transportation; the amounts are not yet known and will probably not become available in time for the immediate projects. Also, some private donations have been offered to assist in monumenting the RoW.
Affiliation: Motor Parkway Panel (Convenor)
Contact Information: {http://home.att.net/~Berliner-Ultrasonics/contact.html>click here}
This information is helpful if we have questions about the nominated property or project.
Thank you for participating in this important environmental program for Nassau County.
If you have any questions, please contact: Katie Schwab at 571-0461 or Tom Maher at 571-1250
ENVIRONMENTAL BOND ACT PROGRAM
2005 NOMINATION FORM
Maps -
An index map showing the extent of each noted and prioritized segment is inserted after page 8 (Prioritization), along with enlargements of the western and eastern portions for ease of legibility (now numbered I1-I3).
A detailed map,of Bethpage State Park to Battle Row Campground and through Old Bethpage Village Restoration is inserted after page 13 (covering those two segments).
Map numbers O1 through O8 (Old), attached in West-to-East order, present the LIMP as it appeared on the 1942 and 1943 U.S. topographic 1:25000 quadrant maps (some of which were updated to 1947 and 1948). The most significant newer crossings are indicated and major road re-namings are shown.
Map numbers C1 though C8 (Current), also attached in West-to-East order, present the LIMP RoW as it appeared in a 1999 Hagstrom atlas.
(15 April 2005 - revised - Index page 2 of 3
The full extent of the LIMP in Suffolk County is shown on maps S1 - S3:
Photographs included (in order):
Reminder - very little effort has been expended to reproduce the nomination
Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference
FOLLOWUP: Please; support our effort by contacting the Nassau and Suffolk County Executives, Tom Suozzi and Steve Levy, and expressing your concern. - SB,III
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Map numbers O1 through O8 (Old), attached in West-to-East order, present the LIMP as it appeared on the 1942 and 1943 U.S. topographic 1:25000 quadrant maps (some of which were updated to 1947 and 1948). The most significant newer crossings are indicated and major road re-namings are shown.
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Mineola, NY 11501
Attn: Thomas F. Maher, Director of Environmental Coordination, Room 325
[ ] Acquisition of land for open space preservation and parkland
[X] Improvement of parkland
[ ] Reduction of storm water pollution
[ ] Remediation of brownfields
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(22 Oct 04 map by and © 2004 S. Berliner, III - all rights reserved
{for the original, in color, click here}]
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An Index Map showing the extent of each noted and prioritized segment were inserted here, along with enlargements of the western and eastern portions for ease of legibility (numbered I1-I3).
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[Note that there are many Stewart Avenues in Nassau County - the two that cross the LIMP RoW are the W-E one immediately S of Roosevelt Field and the N-S one that branches off South Oyster Bay Road at the N end of the Grumman plant in Bethpage, runs SSE to just W of the RoW at Central Avenue and continues S to Route 107.]
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01 Jun 2004 map by and © 2004 S. Berliner, III -all rights reserved)
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Immediate action under the Nassau County Environmental Bond Act of 2004 requires that specific projects be defined such that action can be taken immediately to greatest advantage and to open portions for use by the summer of 2005. As noted previously, there are two different prioritizations involved, to PRESERVE and to PREPARE.; which can also be described by "URGENCY" and "IMMEDIACY". An URGENT priority is thus to conserve and preserve the remanent segments of the LIMP, to protect them from any further sale, destruction, or non-recreative development. The IMMEDIATE needs are to stabilize a few segments that are being damaged by neglect and the elements. The URGENT and the IMMEDIATE, of needs, overlap; this nomination is therefore broken into eight (8) sub-sections, one for each, in priority order, namely:
The balance of the 15 segments are not considered as within the immediacy of this nomination; it is hoped that they can be considered in the coming years to make the full width of Nassau County available for hiking, jogging, and biking:
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None of the above-noted immediacies should detract from medium and long-range goals for the LIMP. It is not at all unreasonable to project into the future the possibility of reacquiring some of the encroachments (especially those without legal basis) and even purchasing (when funds can be raised) such properties as the toll lodges and the General Manager’s Office, and even of bridging the LIRR Main Line and Oyster Bay branch again (with light-weight aluminum footbridges, though). One could even postulate a wire-mesh safety passage on the RoW directly across Eisenhower Park between the Blue and Red Courses (with pass-throughs for golfers, carts, and maintenance vehicles). Disposition or "unfriendly" development of remanent parcels of the LIMP RoW would permanently preclude such beneficial uses.
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Q01 - "Western Terminus" - the final western terminus, at Nassau Boulevard [today’s Horace Harding Boulevard (the south service road of the Long Island Expressway/I-684) and 195th Street) south immediately east of 199th Street and then east to today’s Francis Lewis Boulevard just north of Union Turnpike. The New York City Department of Parks maintains the RoW as an active hiking path from just south of the Long Island Expressway all the way to Winchester Boulevard.
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Q03 - "Alley Pond" - the stretch of the Motor Parkway in Alley Pond Park is one of the most scenic of all; winding through giant trees and alongside a large pond and then ducking under Grand Central Parkway, Douglaston Boulevard, and the Cross Island Parkway to end at Winchester Boulevard opposite Creedmoor Psychiatric Center. The hiking path ends at Winchester Boulevard.
S01 through S08 in Suffolk County:
S01 - "Sand Pits" - from the Nassau County line at the east end of Old Bethpage Village Restoration, across a driveway in from Bethpage-Spagnoli Road, into Rason Asphalt property and then Clifford Broman & Sons/110 Sand property (with an old LIMP secondary bridge that took the RoW over a local (farm?) road; the bridge still stands as a foundation for a sand loader) and behind the Huntington Hilton Hotel at 598 Broadhollow Road, Melville, to Route 110 (Broad Hollow Road).
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S02 - "Melville" - On the east side of Route 110, the RoW is accessible but runs S of Duryea Road and through a welter of LIPA facilities N of Ruland Road until it resurfaces W of Maxess Road. On the E side of Maxess Road are a pair of abutments on LIPA property but nicely maintained and landscaped by Oxford Management Services; they carried a footbridge for school children cut off by the LIMP (this scenic area is only a very short walk from the Nassau County line).
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S06 - "Commack" - on the NE corner of Commack road, the well in front of the Bonwit Inn at 1 Vanderbilt Parkway marks the site of a toll lodge. The Méson Olé at nearby 7 Crooked Hill Road, also in Commack, is reputedly a for=mer toll lodge (moved). The RoW then crosses over Sagtikos State Parkway and then intersects with Harned Road, which was the 1928 Commack Spur, and turns SSE on the E side of the Sagtikos until it comes to the LIE where it heads due E as Motor Parkway, past Washington Avenue (site of a toll gate), Marcus Avenue, passes Sempré Vivolo at 696 Motor Parkway in Hauppauge (supposedly a former toll lodge, moved), and comes to the multiple intersection of the LIMP, Caleb’s Path, Old Willet’s Path, and the LIE.
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Your Name: S. Berliner, III
Index to Attachments to
NASSAU COUNTY
for the
Long Island Motor Parkway
(15 April 2005 - revised - Index page 1 of 3
A sketch map of the entire length of the LIMP is inserted between pages 1 and 2.
Credits are in the captions - all rights reserevd.]
format - however, pagination of the text is retained for ease of reference.
NASSAU COUNTY
ENVIRONMENTAL BOND ACT PROGRAM
PARKLAND IMPROVEMENT EVALUATION CRITERIA
Links:
Parks & Trails New York (formerly New York Parks & Conservation Ass'n)
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