- 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.
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