LONG ISLAND'S HIDDEN HISTORY - EPISODE 2

Long Island - We love it, we hate it, we are all too familiar with it. But no matter how many times you've sat in traffic on the Southern State Parkway, you may have never noticed some piece's of Long Island's history hiding right in plain sight.
Installment 2 of this Docu-Series explains the untold past of Long Island's parkway system.
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[@derekrohan9619]

We can trace my family back to some of the founders of Huntington, miller place, setauket and port Jefferson. One of my relatives owned a hotel where you could eat and get your wagon and horse taken care of. George Washington stayed there and now it’s still there and supposed haunted by my family member and is on a tour route. They also were ship builders in port Jefferson. So much more cool stuff.

[@Serenityafterall]

I love Suffolk , that's why I'm going back 💖

[@LongIslandsHardcoreDetectorist]

I love this and appreciate this information you put together. Thank you from a fellow Long Islander 👍🏼 I’m a treasure Hunter on Long Island and this information becomes very useful

[@FruityCHUNKZ46]

I absolutely love this series keep it up!

[@ChristianBarba]

thank you!!!

[@TJHeinzo]

Super interesting information, especially the bit about the 135 going to Wantagh Parkway. Great visuals too with the video you shoot and the detailed maps. Keep it up!

[@ChristianBarba]

thank you very much!!

[@DMETS519]

For decades there was a sign at Hempstead tpke when you get onto the 135 saying "South to Wantagh" and "North to Oyster Bay." I guess the D.O.T. stayed optimistic about the completion of this expressway for a while. I knew the north / south terminus was supposed to say Syosset and Seaford. It has finally been corrected.

[@DTD110865]

@@DMETS519 Too bad. It should've actually gone south to Wantagh (via the Parkway) and north through Oyster Bay (towards the Bayville-Rye Bridge).

[@erikalynnpennella2667]

I frigging love this part 1& 2!!!! Keep up the good work Christian!!!

[@brian1192]

So cool in how much history Long Island has, i live in glen cove and have recently hated how far we are from everything and how it’s a one way in and out basically that takes so long, wish there was a way to get us to other places faster

[@Oliver61500]

Bravo Christian!!! Beautiful video.

[@bef66]

I love the Long Island Parkway system. I only miss the woody street lights and old gumball lights from the 50's and 60's.

[@ourantwins123]

Great job! I think it would be interesting to see videos on the history of individual LI towns and villages, like Garden City in the first video. Keep up the good work!

[@robertaccornero7172]

I left long island 16 years ago and leaving that expensive overcrowded, cold, stress filled nightmare of an island has been such a wonderful liberating experience! now I drive beautiful winding scenic country roads in the idyllic state of North Carolina! no tolls, no litter, no salted roads, no traffic jams! all you suckers who still live there are paying taxes through the nose, just so you can wait on line to go to a crowded beach! I guess ignorance is bliss!

[@terrencegillon]

Another great video! Looking forward to seeing more of your videos on LI's history. Thanks for making these!

[@ChristianBarba]

thank you!!!!

[@tommckevitt6863]

These videos are extremely well done and very informative. I am looking forward to future editions.

[@SixHundredandThirteen]

Love your videos bro , I'm from Queens. Representing the Strong island Long Island!!! 😂 😂

[@billymuellerTikTok]

great series!! keep it up. I'd suggest a part 2 of this covering the Long Island Expressway and also what used to be Motor Parkway

[@billymuellerTikTok]

wow, that was fast... Motor Parkway is part 3... LOL

[@erikalynnpennella2667]

Which motor pkwy? Off old Nicholas road or exit 55??

[@lisca9719]

Long Island Sports Car Association was part of Motorsport history which dates back to the early 20's century and Cornelius Vanderbilt and his Motor Parkway. As a former President I learned a ton about the Parkway system in New York that I never knew. I thank you so very much

[@Schil517]

This is great! Keep up great work! Sharing this with friends.

[@dorambarek7817]

Excellent video! Love it ❤️ I really missed the Island 😞

[@allencollins6031]

Me too. 😢

[@bumblebeeisfree]

Bro your channel is a hidden gem!! Cheers from W bab

[@jamess5415]

Very cool video! Recognize many of those features.

[@angeladelia7472]

Can't wait for the next episode

[@chrisneverforget9117]

Very good work.

[@jjjsss3869]

Awesome series. I just got started on episode two. I just want to point out a minor error regarding that guard rail by hempstead lake. It is not from the old parkway route. They didn’t use those stamped steel rails on wood posts until sometime in the late 1980’s. The old parkway rails were wood covering on each side of a steel braided cable behind them. Before that was just a raised concrete curb, like could be seen as the center divider on the merge of the grand central into the interboro west of the kew gardens interchange, which finally got replaced in the early 90’s. Your series is excellent. Keep it up.

[@marklags2396]

Please keep up the series.

[@eddiekay9019]

Great vid

[@NativeNYer]

I love Long Island, I just love New York!

[@unggoymaster1217]

I love hidden history like this and thinking about the alternative history if it was to exist. Bethpage State Parkway extension is a good example where the southern expansion would been the Massapequa Preserve (once Massapequa State Park) and the northern expansion along the Trailview State Parkway/Cold Spring Harbor and area of NY state land in Lloyd Harbor to the Caumsett State Park to be called the Caumsett State Parkway once north of the Northern State Parkway. Also the I-495 Eastern expansion to RI to complete original bypass interstate design to I-95.

[@travelingtipps]

Very interesting. I wonder if they'll ever build on those pieces of land that were intended to be the right of way for the roads.

[@billy1673]

I grew up in Syosset right near the northern path of the remains what would’ve been 135. I have vivid memories of when I was little when they still had all the heavy equipment staged at the terminus at Jericho Tpke as if they would start working any minute. Of course that never happened.

[@Rjisawake]

Born in Hempstead!!! Man LI has changed. The most beautiful part of the country at least to me. No I'm not biased lol

[@maceinfaceinc]

More pls

[@TheJayaldae]

To my understanding the original Meadowbrook only existed south of Merrick Rd until the 50s.

[@billymuellerTikTok]

remember the toll booths on Southern State Parkway in Valley Stream? the state police HQ is there now.

[@ChristianBarba]

My grandfather told me about this. It was $1 in the 1950‘s

[@timothys8144]

Wasn’t it a dime for a long time?

[@DTD110865]

@@ChristianBarba A lot of road maps didn't know that the toll booths were removed until the 1980's.

[@nednewh8913]

I used to own a house in Syosset that sat next to the right of way for the 135 about 1/2 mile north of the current end.

[@sdburnettartfan9027]

If anyone has taken the Northern State Parkway in between Exits 30 and 32 east, in between Exit 41 and 45 east I would like to hear how your tires go over 8 of it's grooved surfaces with the first 4 at and passed Exit 31 A in the middle or left lane going around 62 mph and 65 mph to compare grooved sounds from my cars on non precipitation days and nights. Christian Barba, do you often take the Northern Parkway in those areas? I would like to follow people on Instagram that take the Northern State Parkway and the Long Island Expressway often and for more videos of the Northern State Parkway in Nassau only, more videos of the Northern State Parkway from Veterans Highway to NY-110 and a video of the eastbound Northern Parkway from the Grand Central Parkway to Hauppauge on clear and cloudy skies with no opened windows or roofs of cars at speeds between 57 and 66 mph. I-495 from the Cross Island Parkway to Round Swamp Road. Meadowbrook and Wantagh Parkways from Merrick Road to Ocean Parkway and before and passed Old Country Road.

[@scottydude456]

Building 101, or most of these parkways, would have probably just induced demand and would have not really fixed anything in the long run

[@maceinfaceinc]

Yerrr

[@iPhone_3GS]

0:23 you show the LIE and Sunrise Hwy as a parkway, but not William Floyd Parkway ?

[@titochavez4837]

Song name?? 😎

[@designthinkingwithgian]

What is the background music called?

[@ChristianBarba]

An original song I composed called “Bella Vita”

[@designthinkingwithgian]

@@ChristianBarba do you have a link?

[@karlkruer1179]

Music is too loud!!

[@billymuellerTikTok]

they should create a partial bridge with wind mills on top , partial tunnel and/or partial tidal dam to get access from the S.O.B. to Connecticut which would cost a lot but create jobs, lower carbon emissions over the long haul, alleviate traffic and generate electricity. name it after Long Islander Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt who lived on the North Shore in the summers as president.

[@pegk789]

Is it ok to share your video on Facebook? It is very interesting.

[@ChristianBarba]

Thanks so much! You can absolutely share it. I will be uploading it to Facebook shortly. Upload takes longer than KZbin. Click the link in my description and give it a like to see it as soon as it’s up!

[@InstantTorque]

I tell you 10-15 years from now we will be able to drive over the LI sound i'm going to make it happen! mark my words

[@NickG123]

Just get chitti-chitt-bang-bang!

[@benh5366]

There was a plan by Robert Moses to build a bridge to Connecticut but it got shut down

[@InstantTorque]

@@benh5366 The only reason why it didn’t go through was because he pissed off a lot of people throughout that time and things were changing very quickly and they also found out that he was openly racist which was found upon when things were strongly changing so they turned him down and I’m glad because it gives me a chance to do it the right way without pushing people out of their homes

[@benh5366]

@@InstantTorque what is your plan?

[@RCast-sc6fy]

Lol... why?

[@jamesd6390]

I’ve lived in Long Island my whole life along with all my family. My uncle said the Jews on the north shore aren’t going to allow a bridge or tunnel In the north shore to connect upstate.

[@DTD110865]

So your uncle thinks it's the Jews, huh? That's pretty sad.

[@raymondfallon7429]

@@DTD110865 tell ya what though, as dopey as he sounds there, that's pretty much what the Island sounded like when I grew up there. That's the folks that elected George Santos. Makes your hair hurt to think about it.

[@deanchapman1824]

So glad I don't live on LI.

[@jamiemorgan4146]

God this is so Boring!!😫

[@disvet-1ad291]

You should have discussed why he built the parkway bridges so low…..Display the man’s true colors. Robert Moses was a racist who specifically built the bridges low enough for a prevent NYC City buses from brining “undesirables” out to the beautiful beaches of LI.

[@DTD110865]

And yet. many of those "undesirables" can still reach those beaches through mass transit. He also built places like Jacob Riis Park, and there was no effort to keep any "undesirables" out.