According to today's NEWSDAY (Monday, October 24), "2 preservationists have 
been working to turn Motor Parkway’s original pavement into bike and hiking 
paths."

NEWSDAY continues, "Denis Byrne and Sam Berliner III recently walked along a 
Long Island Power Authority right of way in Manhasset Hills, ignoring the row 
of utility poles and fences delineating residents' backyards. They were 
focused on the broken asphalt poking up through the ground.   'Under all this muck,' 
said Berliner of Glen Head, 'you can see the original paving.'  That's the 
pavement remaining from William K. Vanderbilt Jr.'s groundbreaking Long Island 
Motor Parkway, the first reinforced-concrete, high-speed, limited-access 
highway built in the United States."

For the complete article, "Pair hopes to preserve historic roadway" that 
includes a map of the proposed route, please go to (you may need to copy and paste 
the entire URL, beginning with "http" and ending with "-print"):

<http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/longisland/ny-libike244482711oct24,0
,6850392.story?coll=ny-linews-print?>


Regards,

Walter Greenspan