Experience the best at home and work, and enjoy great savings, with the Long Island Commuter Pack (books sold separately for $30.90 retail value)! This value pack includes 2009/10 Long Island Restaurants and 2010 New York City Restaurants. Based on the opinions of restaurant connoisseurs, this pack takes you on an insider's tour of Long Island and New York City, reviewing over 2750 restaurants and offering essential indexes to help you make the right choice for any dining occasion.
Planned and chartered on April 24, 1834, the Long Island Rail Road commenced operations in 1836 to provide a route to Boston. Stretching 110 miles east of New York City, the Long Island Rail Road has been the backbone of population growth and suburban development for over a hundred years. Electrification was begun on the Long Island Rail Road in 1905. Whether it was commuter, freight, or special trains, third-rail operations played a major role in the Long Island Rail Road's development as well as the people, places, and industries it served. This book offers an insider's view of the Morris Park shops and photographs of the varied passenger operations found on the Long Island Rail Road.
Experience the best at home and work, and enjoy great savings, with the Long Island Commuter Pack (books sold separately for $30.90 retail value)! This value pack includes 2010/11 Long Island Restaurants and 2011 New York City Restaurants. Based on the opinions of restaurant connoisseurs, this pack takes you on an insider's tour of Long Island and New York City, reviewing over 2,900 restaurants and offering essential indexes to help you make the right choice for any dining occasion.
The Long Island Motor Parkway was constructed at a pivotal time in American history, and it often considered a precursor to the modern highway system. A forerunner of the modern highway system, the Long Island Motor Parkway was constructed during the advent of the automobile and at a pivotal time in American history. Following a spectator death during the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup Race, the concept for a privately owned speedway on Long Island was developed by William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and his business associates. It would be the first highway built exclusively for the automobile. Vanderbilt's dream was to build a safe, smooth, police-free road without speed limits where he could conduct his beloved automobile races without spectators running onto the course. Features such as the use of reinforced concrete, bridges to eliminate grade crossings, banked curves, guardrails, and landscaping were all pioneered for the parkway. Reflecting its poor profitability and the availability of free state-built public parkways, the historic 48-mile Long Island Motor Parkway closed on Easter Sunday, April 17, 1938.
