- City:
- Bronx, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Libraries
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1938
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
“The Hunts Point Branch of the New York Public Library is the thirty-seventh and final Carnegie branch library to be built in New York City and the ninth to be constructed in the Bronx. It has been in continuous operation as a branch library for over eighty years.”
The library was built in 1929. From 1935-38, the library was expanded by the WPA, “with the construction of a rear two-story addition that accommodated a new activity space and supplementary reading room.” (https://hdc.org)
Source notes
https://hdc.org/hdc-across-nyc/bronx/the-bronx-carnegie-libraries/hunts-point-branch https://kermitproject.org/newdeal/projects.htmlSite originally submitted by Frank da Cruz on June 6, 2015.
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