Great Neck Road Elementary School Improvements – Copiague NY

City:
Copiague, NY

Site Type:
Education and Health, Schools

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Started:
1936

Description

Sayville’s Suffolk County News reported in 1936 that the WPA had allocated $20,248.50 for “landscaping the Copiague school grounds and laying out a baseball diamond, tennis and badminton courts, at a cost of $20,248.50.”

Living New Deal believes the school in question to be what is now known as the Great Neck Road Elementary School.

Source notes

"Sayville Gets $11,334 in Latest WPA Allocations"; Suffolk County News [Sayville, NY], Feb. 21, 1936 (page 1).

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 6, 2014.

Location Info


1400 Great Neck Rd
Copiague, NY 11726
Suffolk County

Coordinates: 40.677447, -73.39828

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