Queens College Improvements – Flushing NY

City:
Flushing, New York City, Queens, NY

Site Type:
Education and Health, Colleges and Universities

New Deal Agencies:
Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Started:
1937

Description

The WPA undertook a $940,000 project aimed at improving the campus of Queens College during the 1930s. The description for the project is as follows: “landscaping; draining; constructing roads, sidewalks, parking areas, athletic fields, field house, bleachers, and tennis and handball courts; and performing incidental and appurtenant work.”

Source notes

National Archives; Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration; Records of the Project Control Division; microfilm publication T935; roll 41.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 13, 2014.

Location Info


Queens College
Flushing, NY 11367
Queens County

Coordinates: 40.736664, -73.820404

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