Harris Field
Harris Field in the Bronx at Bedford Park Boulevard and Goulden Avenue, built by the WPA in 1941, a ten-acre athletic field that can host four baseball games at once.
Harris Field
Photo: Frank da Cruz Source © All Rights Reserved 2014Harris Field
Harris Field
Description
The New York Times reported in Sept. 1941 that “WPA crews are busy on twelve other park and playground projects in other parts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx … [Projects in the Bronx…] At Harris Park, Bedford Park Boulevard and 205th Street, the Bronx, a new ten-acre athletic field is being developed. When completed it will contain a brick field house, concrete bleachers, four baseball and two softball diamonds, four football fields with removable goal posts, a flagpole, benches and drinking fountains. The department intends to plant 17,500 honeysuckle vines on the steep slopes around the field.”
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Bronx Vista with Harris Field
The Jerome Park Reservoir in Spring 2014 with Tracey Towers, the enormous co-op apartment building at 3400 Paul Avenue, and further back some Montefiore Hospital buildings. And to the far left, the red brick Jerome Park Reservoir Gate House Nº7 with DeWitt Clinton High School behind it (light green roofs). Atop the stone wall at right, Lehman College parking and Harris Field.
Bronx Vista with Harris Field
Photo: Frank da Cruz Source © All Rights Reserved 2014Bronx Vista with Harris Field
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Harris Field Grading
Grading along the perimeter of Harris Field, Bronx NY, June 2014. A massive filling job was done by the WPA to “level the playing field”.
Harris Field Grading
Photo: Frank da Cruz Source © All Rights Reserved 2014Harris Field Grading
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Harris Field
The north end of Harris Field on 205th Street, across from Bronx Science.
Harris Field
Photo: Frank da Cruz Source © All Rights Reserved 2014Harris Field
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Harris Field
Harris Field (a.k.a. Harris Park) in the Bronx at Bedford Park Boulevard and Goulden Avenue, built by the WPA in 1941, as reported in the New York Times, September 22, 1941 (verification pending).
Harris Field
Photo: Frank da Cruz Source © All Rights Reserved 2014Harris Field
Source notes
"Central Park Area to Be Improved For Benefit of Harlem Residents; Lake Near 110th Street Will Be Circled by a Walk With Paths Near By — Twelve Other Recreation Spots to Be Built by WPA," The New York Times, Sept. 22, 1941
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 15, 2014.
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