Staten Island: Grymes Hill-area WPA work area map
Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Description
The federal Work Projects Administration put many men to work starting in 1935 with a Staten Island project that removed dangerous street ditches from roads throughout the borough. Granite block gutters and headers were installed by WPA laborers along nearly a dozen streets, including the stretches of adjacent Waverly Place and Irving Place between Van Duzer and Targee Streets.
Source notes
National Archives RG 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration [WPA]; Project Files; New York City (E 407); box 684; roll 3642; Official Project No. 65-97-2.
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 19, 2014.
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