Hunts Point Branch Library Expansion – Bronx NY

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)

Location Info


877 Southern Boulevard
Bronx, NY 10459
Bronx County

Coordinates: 40.818684, -73.894088

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