Location: Red Hook Recreation Area - Brooklyn NY

Red Hook Pool – Brooklyn NY

Red Hook Park swimming pool was one of eleven pools constructed by Works Progress Administration (WPA) relief workers for the New York City Parks Department in 1936.  As the Parks Department website puts it: “A new era in active recreation… read more

Red Hook Park – Brooklyn NY

Red Hook Park in Brooklyn was one of several major parks and hundreds of playgrounds created in New York City with Federal funds in the New Deal era. In this 1938 text, Robert Moses describes the work accomplished in New York… read more