Brizzi Playground
Project type: Parks and Recreation, Playgrounds
Started: 1938
Completed: 1938
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Description
New York City’s Parks Department writes:
“[Brizzi Playground], formerly named the 43rd St. Playground, is bounded by 42nd and 43rd Streets and 10th & New Utrecht Avenues. It was acquired through condemnation and assigned to Parks for playground purposes in 1938. The playground was designed and constructed the same year by the Works Progress Administration …”
The completion of the playground was officially announced on March 18, 1939.
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Brizzi Playground, Bocce Court
Source notes
NYC Parks - Brizzi Playground Department of Parks, Press Release, March 18, 1939
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 15, 2014.
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