Staten Island: Grymes Hill-area WPA road resurfacing site map
Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, bridges, and tunnels
New Deal Agencies: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Description
The federal Work Projects Administration put many men to work starting in 1935 with a Staten Island street repair and maintenance project along roads throughout the borough. The streets, many of which in New York City were still unpaved, were surfaced with bituminous macadam. Roads paved included the stretches of:
- Van Cortlandt Avenue between Clove Road and Rugby Ave.
- Rugby Avenue between Grand Ave. and Highland Ave.
- Grand Avenue between Rugby Ave. and Victory Blvd.
- Dudley Avenue between Clove Road and Rugby Ave.
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. 65-97-3.
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 19, 2014.
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