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Steve Anderson
article in "Vital Signs: The Roads Not Taken" on some of the unbuilt
highways on Long Island, featuring nycroads.com:
"The Roads Not Taken"
"As a youngster growing up in Lake Grove, Steve Anderson attended St.
Joseph's Elementary School in Ronkonkoma. But he was really a student of
master planner Robert Moses.
In fourth grade, he said, "I wrote him. I was in awe of a lot of his
projects-his parks, his bridges, his roads... I wanted to be the person
to finish his legacy."
And he has done just that-21st century style. A recent graduate of NYU's
Stern School of Business, Anderson, 31, of Forest Hills, maintains a Web
site where drivers of hard drives can click their way over maps, photos
and histories of area roads."
You can read more by going to http://library.newsday.com
Enter in "Steve Anderson" in the 7-day archive.
-- Steve Anderson
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Paul Schlichtman
> article in "Vital Signs: The Roads Not Taken" on some of the unbuilt
Congratulations, Steve!
Forget the Newsday archives, here it is:
WEB SITE
The Roads Not Taken
As a youngster growing up in Lake Grove, Steve Anderson attended St.
Joseph's Elementary School in Ronkonkoma. But he was really a student of
master planner Robert Moses.
In fourth grade, he said, "I wrote him. I was in awe of a lot of his
projects-his parks, his bridges, his roads... I wanted to be the person to
finish his legacy."
And he has done just that-21st century style. A recent graduate of NYU's
Stern School of Business, Anderson, 31, of Forest Hills, maintains a Web
site where drivers of hard drives can click their way over maps, photos and
histories of area roads.
Not all the roads originated on Moses' drawing board. In fact, not all of
them were even built.
A visit, for instance, to the A.O. Smith Turnpike in Setauket is
accomplished not by internal combustion engine, but search engine. Or find
it at http://www.nycroads.com/roads/unbuilt_LI/.
Had it been built when it was announced in the '60s (as a link to the
proposed Port Jefferson-Bridgeport bridge), before being deemed unnecessary
a decade later, the county road would have intersected Nicolls Road near
Wireless Road.
Instead, there is only grassy space and power lines; Anderson presents a
photo of the undeveloped scene. There's also a map to show what might have
been.
Smith, by the way, was a Midwestern industrialist who developed the world's
first press steel automobile frame at the turn of the century.
His turnpike is in good company: The Broad Hollow Expressway and Ponquogue
Causeway, among others that also never happened, are happening highways on
the site.
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Paul Schlichtman
Arlington (MA) School Committee
population 42,389, enrollment 4,286
http://www.schlichtman.org & http://www.arlington-mass.com
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Rick
(Not original, but sincere.)
R