Leland Avenue Improvements – Bronx NY

City:
Bronx, New York City, NY

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1935

Description

The federal Work Projects Administration put many men to work starting in 1935 with a Bronx street repair and maintenance project along roads throughout the borough. The streets, many of which in New York City were still unpaved, were surfaced with penetrated macadam. Roads improved included a half-mile stretch of Leland Avenue in the Clason Point neighborhood of the Bronx from O’Brien Ave. to Randall Ave.

Source notes

National Archives RG 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration [WPA]; Project Files; New York City (E 407); box 684; roll 3642; Official Project No. 65-97-14.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 4, 2014.

Location Info


Leland Ave.
Bronx, NY Bronx County

Coordinates: 40.811210, -73.858693

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