The
Long Island Motor Parkway (
LIMP), also known as the
Vanderbilt Parkway and
Motor Parkway, was a
parkway on
Long Island,
New York, in the United States. It was the first roadway designed for automobile use only. The road was privately built by
William Kissam Vanderbilt II with overpasses and bridges to remove intersections. It opened in 1908 as a
toll road and closed in 1938 when it was taken over by the state of New York in lieu of back taxes. Parts of the parkway survive today in sections of other roadways and as a bicycle trail in
Queens.