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Fort Totten (former) Improvements – Bayside NY

Project type: Military and Public Safety, Parks and Recreation
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
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Description

The WPA undertook several projects to improve Bayside, New York’s Fort Totten during the 1930s and early 1940s. One project called for the WPA to repair and reconstruct buildings; improve the “water and lighting installations” as well as “sewer installation and other utilities;” and “improve the roads and grounds” at the base. Much of the grounds now serves as a city park.

Source notes

National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration;
Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T935; roll 41.

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 13, 2014.

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Location Info

Fort Totten
Bayside, NY

Coordinates: 40.792, -73.776

One comment on “Fort Totten (former) Improvements – Bayside NY”

  1. Thomas McGlinchey August 27, 2017

    Most of the fort is now a NYC park, including the swimming pool.
    https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-totten-park

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