Editing Long Island Motor Parkway (section)

== Access ==
[[File:Limp.track.jpg|thumb|400px|Map showing the Long Island Motor Parkway (in purple)]]
The Long Island Motor Parkway was a [[limited-access road|limited-access]] [[toll road]], with access at a small number of toll booths, joined to local roads by short [[Connector (road)|connector roads]]. Traffic could turn left between the parkway and connectors, crossing oncoming traffic, so it was not a [[controlled-access highway]] (or "freeway" as later defined by the federal government's [[Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices]]). Access points were:
*Nassau Boulevard ([[New York State Route&nbsp;25D|NY&nbsp;25D]]) west of [[Francis Lewis Boulevard]]. The right-of-way of Nassau Boulevard was later used for the Long Island Expressway ([[Interstate 495 (New York)|I-495]]).
*Hillside Avenue ([[New York State Route 25B|NY&nbsp;25B]])&nbsp;– [[Springfield Boulevard]] south of 77th Avenue
*[[Great Neck, New York|Great Neck]]&nbsp;– Lakeville Road south of Lake Road
*[[Roslyn, New York|Roslyn]]&nbsp;– Roslyn Road south of Barnyard Lane
*[[Mineola, New York|Mineola]]&nbsp;– Jericho Turnpike ([[New York State Route 25|NY&nbsp;25]]) at Rudolph Drive
*[[Garden City, New York|Garden City]]&nbsp;– Clinton Road at Vanderbilt Court
*Meadowbrook – Merrick Avenue north of Stewart Avenue
*[[Bethpage, New York|Bethpage]]&nbsp;– Hicksville Road ([[New York State Route 107|NY&nbsp;107]]) south of Avoca Avenue; Round Swamp Road south of Old Bethpage Road
*[[Melville, New York|Melville]]&nbsp;– Broad Hollow Road ([[New York State Route 110|NY&nbsp;110]]) north of Spagnoli Road
*[[Deer Park, New York|Deer Park]]&nbsp;– Deer Park Road ([[New York State Route 231|NY&nbsp;231]])
*[[Commack, New York|East Commack]]&nbsp;– Commack Spur along Harned Road ([[County Route 14 (Suffolk County, New York)|CR&nbsp;14]]) to Jericho Turnpike (NY&nbsp;25)
*[[Brentwood, New York|Brentwood]]&nbsp;– Washington Avenue
*[[Ronkonkoma, New York|Ronkonkoma]]&nbsp;– Rosevale Avenue

When the parkway opened, the toll was set at $2. It was reduced to $1.50 in 1912, $1 in 1917, and 40 cents in 1938. The first six toll houses were designed by architect [[John Russell Pope]], designer of the [[Jefferson Memorial]] and the rotunda in the [[American Museum of Natural History]].<ref name="NYT12OCT08"/> The toll houses were designed to include living space for the toll collectors so that toll could be collected at all hours. The most prominent remaining toll house is in Garden City.<ref>[http://www.gardencityhistoricalsociety.org/Events.htm Garden City Historical Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002234735/http://www.gardencityhistoricalsociety.org/Events.htm |date=2011-10-02 }} Garden City Toll Lodge</ref>  Once located at the junction of Clinton Road and Vanderbilt Court, it was moved in 1989 to 230 Seventh Street, now the headquarters of the Garden City Chamber of Commerce.<ref>{{cite news |title=Efforts Underway to Preserve Long Island Motor Parkway |first=Carisa |last=Giardino |url=http://gardencity.patch.com/articles/efforts-underway-to-preserve-long-island-motor-parkway |newspaper=Garden City Patch |date=June 23, 2011 |accessdate=2011-08-26}}</ref>