- City:
- Brooklyn, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
In the 1930s Works Progress Administration laborers undertook a sewer construction project on Stanley Avenue in the Jamaica Bay section of Brooklyn. Pictured here are WPA crews at work on the sewer project at the intersection of Stanley and New Jersey Avenues (WPA – Five Boroughs Project).
Source notes
Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. "Public Works - [Brooklyn - Jamaica Bay - W.P.A. [Works Progress Administration] sewer project.]" New York Public Library Digital Collections, last accessed February 2016Contribute to this Site
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