Vitagraph Building Renovation – Bay Shore NY

City:
Bay Shore, NY

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

Started:
1936

Description

WPA labor worked to renovate the old Vitagraph Building, a former movie studio located at 94 4th Avenue in Bay Shore, NY, for the purpose of utilizing the structure as a “sewing room, the Old Age Security offices and other home relief offices.”

The building is now a residential complex.

Source notes

"Old-Time Movie Studio to House Relief Offices"; Suffolk County News [Sayville, NY], Sept. 11, 1936 (page 9).

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 6, 2014.

Location Info


94 4th Ave.
Bay Shore, NY 11706
Suffolk County

Coordinates: 40.7228629, -73.25013

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