- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
Description
The federal Work Projects Administration put many men to work starting in 1935 with a $197,000 street repair and maintenance project, along what were then dirt roads, throughout the borough of Brooklyn, New York. Roads improved included the following in northeast Canarsie in the vicinity of the L train terminus:
- E. 98th St.: Farragut Rd. to Foster Ave.
- E. 99th St.: Farragut Rd. to Foster Ave./li>
- E. 103th St.: Farragut Rd. to Glenwood Rd.
- E. 104rd St.: Farragut Rd. to Glenwood Rd.
- Farragut Rd.: E. 102nd St. to E. 107th St.
Source notes
National Archives RG 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration [WPA]; Project Files; New York City (E 407); box 684; roll 3642; Official Project No. 65-97-17.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 4, 2014.
Contribute to this Site
We welcome contributions of additional information on any New Deal site.
Submit More Information or Photographs for this New Deal Site