- City:
- Flushing, New York City, Queens, NY
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs
- Completed:
- 1938
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) constructed a “seventy-five-acre parking field … for the city north of the World’s Fair grounds.” 1,950 men worked on the parking lot project, which occupied land north of Roosevelt Ave. The site was on what is now the parking lot for Citi Field.
Source notes
The New York Times: "Completing Fair Parking Field," September 9, 1938 (pg. 15)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on March 27, 2018.
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