- City:
- Bronx, New York City, NY
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1939
Description
Van Cortlandt Park’s Southwest Playground opened in 1939 as part of Van Cortlandt Stadium, a New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. A Department of Parks press release shows that the WPA (the agency involved in almost all Parks work at the time) had also already constructed six handball courts in this corner of the Park by December 1936.
Source notes
Van Cortlandt Park Bronx NY New Deal Tour NYC Parks - Van Cortlandt Park Department of Parks, Press Release, December 30, 1936Site originally submitted by Frank da Cruz on June 10, 2014.
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