Queens: Jamaica Avenue WPA work area map
Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
Started: 1935
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Description
The paving of the 3.5-mile stretch of Jamaica Avenue between 168th St. and 225th St. in Jamaica, Queens was first undertaken as a nearly-half-million-dollar WPA project during the 1930s.
WPA Official Project No. 65-97-11.
Source notes
National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration; Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T935; roll 41.
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 12, 2014.
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