- City:
- Bayonne, NJ
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1937
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) reconstructed Bayonne’s old East 49th Street—then unpaved—from Avenue E to the New York Bay waterfront. The road has since been either renamed Pulaski Ave. or otherwise replaced.
Source notes
Financial and Administrative Survey of Bayonne, 1940, Vol. 2.; Table 62 (page 417). Found at the Bayonne Public Library: Reference Room.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 5, 2015.
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