Rockaway Beach Improvements – Queens NY

City:
New York City, Queens, NY

Site Type:
Parks and Recreation

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

Description

The WPA undertook work during the 1930s to improve Rockaway Beach (the physical beach, as opposed to the neighborhood of Rockaway Beach itself) in southern Queens, New York. One project entailed: “Removal of refuse and level sand on Rockaway Beach.”

WPA Official Project No. 165-97-3001.

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


Rockaway Beach
Queens, NY Queens County

Coordinates: 40.584166, -73.810282

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