Thanks to Gary Urbanowicz #47731674 for the following bio:
A banker and finance magnate who directed the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the New York Municipal Railways System, Harding used his influence to promote the development of Long Island's roadways, lending strong support to Robert Moses' "great parkway plan". Harding also urged construction of a highway from Queens Boulevard to the Nassau County Line, in order to provide better access to Oakland Country Club, where he was a member and avid golfer. He personally commissioned engineering studies and the road was finally built in the administration of Mayor James J. Walker, who opened it in 1928 as Nassau Boulevard. In May 1929, just four months after Harding’s death, the road was named Horace Harding Boulevard in his honor.
In 1939, the New York City Council proposed the renaming of numerous roads related to the development of the New York Worlds Fair, including changing Horace Harding Boulevard to Worlds Fair Boulevard, but Mayor Fiorello Laguardia refused to remove the name of his friend. Though construction of the Long Island Expressway in the 1950's largely obliterated the old road, the service road on both sides of the Expressway still bear his name.
The Expressway, dubbed the Long Island Distressway due to its infamous traffic jams, is officially Interstate Route 495 as well as New York State Route 495. It runs from the terminus of the Queens Midtown Tunnel in the west to Riverhead, Long Island in the East; a total of 71 miles.
A banker and finance magnate who directed the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the New York Municipal Railways System, Harding used his influence to promote the development of Long Island's roadways, lending strong support to Robert Moses' "great parkway plan". Harding also urged construction of a highway from Queens Boulevard to the Nassau County Line, in order to provide better access to Oakland Country Club, where he was a member and avid golfer. He personally commissioned engineering studies and the road was finally built in the administration of Mayor James J. Walker, who opened it in 1928 as Nassau Boulevard. In May 1929, just four months after Harding’s death, the road was named Horace Harding Boulevard in his honor.
In 1939, the New York City Council proposed the renaming of numerous roads related to the development of the New York Worlds Fair, including changing Horace Harding Boulevard to Worlds Fair Boulevard, but Mayor Fiorello Laguardia refused to remove the name of his friend. Though construction of the Long Island Expressway in the 1950's largely obliterated the old road, the service road on both sides of the Expressway still bear his name.
The Expressway, dubbed the Long Island Distressway due to its infamous traffic jams, is officially Interstate Route 495 as well as New York State Route 495. It runs from the terminus of the Queens Midtown Tunnel in the west to Riverhead, Long Island in the East; a total of 71 miles.
Thanks to Gary Urbanowicz #47731674 for the following bio:
A banker and finance magnate who directed the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the New York Municipal Railways System, Harding used his influence to promote the development of Long Island's roadways, lending strong support to Robert Moses' "great parkway plan". Harding also urged construction of a highway from Queens Boulevard to the Nassau County Line, in order to provide better access to Oakland Country Club, where he was a member and avid golfer. He personally commissioned engineering studies and the road was finally built in the administration of Mayor James J. Walker, who opened it in 1928 as Nassau Boulevard. In May 1929, just four months after Harding’s death, the road was named Horace Harding Boulevard in his honor.
In 1939, the New York City Council proposed the renaming of numerous roads related to the development of the New York Worlds Fair, including changing Horace Harding Boulevard to Worlds Fair Boulevard, but Mayor Fiorello Laguardia refused to remove the name of his friend. Though construction of the Long Island Expressway in the 1950's largely obliterated the old road, the service road on both sides of the Expressway still bear his name.
The Expressway, dubbed the Long Island Distressway due to its infamous traffic jams, is officially Interstate Route 495 as well as New York State Route 495. It runs from the terminus of the Queens Midtown Tunnel in the west to Riverhead, Long Island in the East; a total of 71 miles.
A banker and finance magnate who directed the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the New York Municipal Railways System, Harding used his influence to promote the development of Long Island's roadways, lending strong support to Robert Moses' "great parkway plan". Harding also urged construction of a highway from Queens Boulevard to the Nassau County Line, in order to provide better access to Oakland Country Club, where he was a member and avid golfer. He personally commissioned engineering studies and the road was finally built in the administration of Mayor James J. Walker, who opened it in 1928 as Nassau Boulevard. In May 1929, just four months after Harding’s death, the road was named Horace Harding Boulevard in his honor.
In 1939, the New York City Council proposed the renaming of numerous roads related to the development of the New York Worlds Fair, including changing Horace Harding Boulevard to Worlds Fair Boulevard, but Mayor Fiorello Laguardia refused to remove the name of his friend. Though construction of the Long Island Expressway in the 1950's largely obliterated the old road, the service road on both sides of the Expressway still bear his name.
The Expressway, dubbed the Long Island Distressway due to its infamous traffic jams, is officially Interstate Route 495 as well as New York State Route 495. It runs from the terminus of the Queens Midtown Tunnel in the west to Riverhead, Long Island in the East; a total of 71 miles.
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