- City:
- Bayonne, NJ
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1939
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) repaved Hook Road in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1939. The Bayonne Times wrote:
“The most important part of the [larger WPA work project] is the repaving of the Hook road, which runs from Avenue I [no longer extant] to Lower Hook, a distance of more than one mile, leading to the Standard Oil and other Hook plants. The present brick road t the plants was built in 1904.”
25 men were given work on the Hook Road project.
Source notes
"333 Men Scheduled to Get Work on Projects Beginning May 19"; Bayonne Times, May 8, 1939.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 5, 2015.
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