- City:
- Flushing, New York City, Queens, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Schools
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Marked:
- Yes
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The original part of the current P.S. 2 school building on 21st Avenue in East Elmhurst, Queens, was constructed during the mid-1930s as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The building bears a 1935 cornerstone, and a plaque cites the construction dates as 1935-6.
Funding for the school was part of a larger PWA grant allotted for the building of three schools and a hospital wing in Queens and the Bronx.
PWA Docket No. NY 7582.
Source notes
The New York Times: STRIKE OF 75 HALTS WORK ON 10 SCHOOLS, December 31, 1935, pg. 3.
New York Times, 27 Sep 1934.
New York Times, 11 Sep 1935
Kermit Project: (https://kermitproject.org/newdeal/nycschools.html#1934/09/27), accessed April 20, 2018.
The Alfred Zimberg School P.S. 2: (https://sites.google.com/a/ps2q.org/the-alfred-zimberg-school-public-school-2-queens/), accessed April 20, 2018.
Building plaques and cornerstone.
Site originally submitted by Frank de Cruz, Kermit Project, and Evan Kalish on March 23, 2018.
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