- 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)
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) put many men to work starting in 1935 with street repair and maintenance projects that improved roads throughout the Bronx. The work pictured here shows WPA laborers on the Bronx Boulevard construction project.
Source notes
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Bronx: Bronx Boulevard - south of East 242nd St." New York Public Library Digital Collections, last accessed February 2016 Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Bronx: Bronx Boulevard - 239th Street (East)" The New York Public Library Digital Collections, last accessed February 2016Contribute to this Site
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