- City:
- Bronx, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
“‘In the Bronx, the reconstruction of an outfall sewer under Exterior Street near Broadway developed into one of the big engineering jobs at the NYC WPA. This sewer had been laid in the bed of the old Harlem River after the building of the Ship Canal.’ It saved neighboring buildings from flooding with sewage.”
Source notes
Millett, John D. The Works Progress Administration in New York City, New York (Arno Press). 1978: 97.
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Public Works - Bronx - A W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] project." The 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. "Public Works - East Bronx - A W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] project." The 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. "Public Works - Bronx - A W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] sewer project." New York Public Library Digital Collections, last accessed February 2016
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