Westchester Avenue Bridge – Bronx NY

City:
Bronx, New York City, NY

Site Type:
Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)

Description

 

Federal Public Works Administration funds were used to construct a span for Westchester Avenue over the Bronx River during the 1930s (Docket No. NY 1376 R). In one photo caption it is called “Bridge at Whitlock and Westchester Aves.”; Whitlock Avenue lies west of what is not the Sheridan Expressway.

The span has since been modified and has otherwise lost its Art Deco character.

The 6 subway line travels on an elevated train bridge above this Westchester Avenue span.

Source notes

National Archives Record Group 135-SAR: Prints: Photographs rejected for use in the Photographic Report to the President: “Survey of the Architecture of Completed Projects of the PWA, 1939”; Box 14: New York State; Folder 24/25/26.

Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 4, 2014.

Location Info


Westchester Ave.
Bronx, NY Bronx County

Coordinates: 40.828258, -73.883907

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