- City:
- New York, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1936
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
This WPA photo showing a WPA sewer under construction has the following caption:
“Engineers take pride in their work. This smiling WPA worker is as proud as his fellow workers and chief engineers as the big job nearing completion in the vicinity of 179th Street and Highbridge Park. Antiquated and inadequate sewers are being replaced with modern ones – an important adjunct in the plan for improving sanitary conditions in the five boros[sic] of New York.”
Source notes
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