- City:
- Jamaica, New York City, Queens, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration worked to conduct repairs and alterations to several civic facilities in Queens as part of a $300,464 project begun in 1935. Facilities improved included the “Jamaica Storage Sheds” at 132nd St. and 150th Ave. The original structures don’t appear to be standing, but a municipal sanitation department storage lot is still located at the intersection.
Source notes
National Archives RG 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration [WPA]; Project Files; New York City (E 407); box 684; roll 3643; Official Project No. 65-97-42.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 9, 2014.
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