- City:
- New York City, Staten Island, NY
- Site Type:
- Military and Public Safety
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The WPA undertook several projects to improve Staten Island’s Miller Field Airport, a then-U.S. Army facility, during the 1930s and early 1940s. One project called upon the WPA to: “Improve Miller Field Airport at New Dorp Lane … by landscaping grounds; constructing and reconstructing buildings, roads, lighting, sewer, and drainage systems; and performing appurtenant work.”
Miller Field is now a park, part of the “Staten Island Unit of the Gateway National Recreation Area, which is managed by the National Park Service.” (Wikipedia)
Source notes
National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration; Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T935; roll 41. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_Field_%28Staten_Island%29Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 13, 2014.
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