- City:
- Schenectady, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
The federal Work Projects Administration worked to improve Gifford Road in Schenectady, New York in 1939. WPA work included “grading, surfacing, installing drainage facilities, digging ditch, changing course of creek,” and performing related tasks. Of the $7,555 total cost of the project, the WPA appropriated $5,255.
WPA Official Project No. 665-21-1-466.
Source notes
National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration; Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T936; roll 9.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 16, 2014.
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James Lombardi
The WPA paved and built a curb on Broad st and Poplar street in Bellevue. Also they built concrete steps down the hill to Cheltingham ave. I saved a piece of the cement curb that was broken off by a snow plough. It is inscribed BUILT BY WPA. I have it here in my home in Cathedral City Ca. Most people have no idea what the WPA did. Sad.