Description
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a grant for the construction of a viaduct to carry Willow Avenue between Hoboken and Weehawken over the train tracks. The project was undertaken as part of a larger grade crossing elimination initiative during that era. The PWA provided a grant of $103,940 for the project, whose total cost was $365,684.
PWA Docket No. NJ 4647
Source notes
Source: National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 17.
New Jersey Board of Public Utility Commissioners, 1934 Report (pg. 9 to 10): https://dspace.njstatelib.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10929/33099/1934.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (accessed Mar. 2018)
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 26, 2018.
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