My thanks to the editors for creating a great newsletter, I look forward to reading it each month. This is a little before our time, but interesting Hicksville history....

Regards, Ann Grunewald , '59

1909 AMERICA'S PREMIER AUTOMOBILE RACE (Vanderbilt Cup), RUN ON THE LONG ISLAND COURSE. 

A VIEW OF THE COURSE DURING THE RACE, SHOWING A STRETCH OF ROAD BETWEEN WESTBURY AND HICKSVILLE. 

H.H. HARDING, IN THE APPERSON (JACK RABBIT), PASSING W. BROWN, WHO HAD LOST A REAR WHEEL  AT THE WESTBURY TURN. 

HARRY F. GRANT IN THE WINNING ALCO MACHINE, TAKING THE TURN AT HICKSVILLE. HIS AVERAGE SPEED FOR THE RACE WAS 62.9 MILES AN HOUR.  

SOME OF THE ATTENDEES WERE ALFRED G. VANDERBILT, REGINALD VANDERBILT, RICHARD McGRANN, HARRY PAYNE WHITNEY AND AUGUST BELMONT.

Below is 199th Street and 64th Avenue

Below is part of the repaved section somewhere in queens.

More paved road

Below Old Court House Road Overpass Manhasset Hills

New Hyde Park Roadbed

Below The Grandstand Stretch, Levittown courtesy of Vince Fitzgerald

Below, the prize...plus there was some money involved...