Rappaport Playground – Brooklyn NY

City:
Brooklyn, New York City, NY

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation

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

Started:
1941

Description

The New York Times reported in 1941 that, as part of WPA efforts, Brooklyn would receive six new playgrounds, located at: “Third Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street, Second Avenue and Fifty-fifth Street, Fort Hamilton Parkway and Fifty-second Street, Albany and Foster Avenues, Park and Nostrand Avenues and Eastern Parkway Extension and Fulton Street.”

Rappaport Playground is the third site described.

Source notes

"Central Park Area to Be Improved For Benefit of Harlem Residents"; The New York Times, Sept. 22, 1941

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on April 15, 2014.

Location Info


Brooklyn, NY 11219
Kings County

Coordinates: 40.636920, -74.00019

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