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Date added: January 7, 2012
"The South Junior High School at Newburgh is one of 2 schools which comprised this project. It is on the highest point of a 12-acre site and commands a superb view of the Highlands of the Hudson. It serves 19… read more
Date added: January 7, 2012
The PWA built the east wing of the Robert M. Finley middle school. "The Robert M. Finley Middle School, serving students in grades six through eight, is made up of several buildings: the west wing, built in 1910 and renovated… read more
Date added: January 7, 2012
Lakeview Elementary School in Mahopac, New York was originally constructed as Mahopac High School during the 1930s with the assistance of the federal Public Works Administration (PWA Docket No. NY 6223). The PWA provided a $180,000 loan and a $136,448… read more
Date added: January 7, 2012
“The site of this project is a peninsula, locally known as ‘The Island’ and in addition to the school building, there are baseball and football fields, a running track, tennis courts, and a park containing beautiful old trees. The school,… read more
Date added: January 7, 2012
Brooklyn College was created in the 1930s with the assistance of the New Deal. The five original buildings, including a library and gymnasium, were built with PWA funding and the grounds were landscaped by WPA workers. The college’s web page… read more
Date added: January 7, 2012
The Williamsburg Houses were opened in 1937, one of three huge public housing projects in New York City funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA), along with First Houses and Harlem River Houses in Manhattan. New York City was the… read more
Date added: January 7, 2012
Franklin K. Lane High School, located in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, was constructed with the assistance of federal Public Works Administration funds during the 1930s (PWA Docket No. NY 8884-R). Short and Stanley-Brown write: “This is… read more
Date added: January 7, 2012
Hudson, New York’s Montgomery C. Smith Intermediate School was constructed as the Chancellor Livingston High School during the Great Depression. It was constructed with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. PWA Docket No. 3993-R. “The new building contains special rooms… read more
Date added: January 3, 2012
“The Lockport Public Library project was begun as the result of two generous bequests from citizens of the town. It was carried out with the assistance of municipal and P.W.A. funds [Docket No. NY 1063-R]. The building is H-shaped in… read more
Date added: December 22, 2011
The Queens County Supreme Court building in Jamaica was constructed as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project. Short and Stanley-Brown: “This structure houses the 23 civil courts of Queens County and provides quarters for the judges, the clerk of the… read more
Date added: December 22, 2011
“This building was designed and carried out by the Public Buildings Branch of the Procurement Division for the Immigration Service of the Department of Labor and constitutes one unit of a large project to improve ferry facilities at Ellis Island…. read more
Date added: December 22, 2011
The Madison Square Station post office in New York, New York “was built in 1935, and designed by consulting architects Lorimer Rich for the Office of the Supervising Architect.” (Wikipedia) Professor Dolkart of Columbia University School of Architecture, Planning and… read more
Date added: December 22, 2011
The Triborough bridge linking up Queens, the Bronx, and Manhattan over East River, is still known to New Yorkers by that name, even though it was officially renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge in 2008. The Triborough Bridge is one of… read more
Date added: December 22, 2011
Construction of New York’s LaGuardia Airport was among the largest undertakings of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration (WPA) and included both today’s main airport (then the “landplane field”) and what is now the Marine Air Terminal (then the “seaplane… read more
Date added: December 22, 2011
The Marine Air Terminal contains the largest WPA mural ever painted. “Flight” measures 12 feet (3.7 m) in height and 237 feet (72 m) in length. Artist James Brooks completed this mural depicting the history of flight in 1940. “It… read more