Last Intact Motor Parkway Bridge in Suffolk County Reportedly Destroyed

[Dougtone]

Here's an article I found (with pictures) about an old Vanderbilt Motor Parkway bridge that is no more.  This bridge was on a farm that later became home to a sandpit, eventually leading to the bridge's demise.

Read the article at...
http://tinyurl.com/6yebuez

[relaxok]

Sad - I read a good deal about the motor parkway in Tom Lewis' Divided Highways.

It was quite an egotistical little vanity project, really, but what a piece of history!

[agentsteel53]

1) what is a sandpit (other than the native habitat of a Sarlacc?)

and 2) why couldn't anyone, in ten years, get on that land and photograph the bridge (again, Sarlacc?)

[HowardKroplick]

A sand pit is a commercial mine to extract sand used primarily for concrete. This New York Times article provides background on sand mining operations on Long Island:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CEEDE1738F935A25752C0A9639C8B63

The Melville sand pit is private property. Over the last decade, the owners refused requests to photograph the Motor Parkway bridge.

Here is a link to posts related to the Long island Motor Parkway.
http://www.vanderbiltcupraces.com/index.php/blog/article/index_for_the_long_island_motor_parkway

Enjoy,

Howard
East Hills, NY

[D-Dey65]

I happen to know of an old sandpit near Eagle Estates in Medford, New York. It has been part of a Suffolk County Nature Preserve since 1987.


Anyway it sucks that another old Long Island Motor Parkway bridge is destroyed. I never knew where this one was.