Richard A. Rutkowski Park Improvements – Bayonne NJ

City:
Bayonne, NJ

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation

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

Completed:
1936

Description

The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked on a project that involved “cutting embankment on upland at 54th St. Newark Bay, cleaning beach and reconstruction of 3 life-saving stations.” Richard A. Rutkowski Park is still in use today.

Source notes

Financial and Administrative Survey of Bayonne, 1940, Vol. 2.; Table 62 (page 421). Found at the Bayonne Public Library: Reference Room.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 5, 2015.

Location Info


Hackensack RiverWalk
Bayonne, NJ 07002

Coordinates: 40.688914, -74.111902

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