- City:
- Bayonne, NJ
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Description
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) worked on a project that involved “resurfacing, grading, and seeding lowlands on 25th St. park.” Subsequently the WPA undertook “installing four tennis courts and rock fill and erecting new beauty circle with walks leading to same at Veterans Park.”
Veterans Park is still in use today; modern facilities include: “spray park, playground, exercise area and parking facilities.”
Source notes
Financial and Administrative Survey of Bayonne, 1940, Vol. 2.; Table 62 (page 419). Found at the Bayonne Public Library: Reference Room. https://www.bayonnenj.org/residents/bayonne-recreation/Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 5, 2015.
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