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Astoria Health Center – Astoria NY

The city Health Center, meant to serve Long Island City and Astoria, at the southwest corner of 31st Ave. and 14th St., was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). “This center and eight others are being built as WPA projects,”… read more

Project type: Hospitals and Clinics, Education and Health
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant – Queens NY

Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided resources for the construction of what was then known as the Bowery Bay Pumping Station. The facility, which bears a 1940 cornerstone, has since been expanded. “Under the auspices of the New York Department… read more

Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Bowery Bay Wastewater Treatment Plant: Cast Reliefs – Queens NY

Entrance with two WPA reliefs

In 1939 the Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissioned a set of four cast reliefs for inclusion on the facade of the then-new Bowery Bay Pumping Station in Queens, New York. The works, which depict men at work engaging in sewage… read more

Project type: Art Works, Sculpture and Bas Relief
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Department of Purchase Warehouse – Long Island City NY

A money-saving, efficiency-increasing Department of Purchase warehouse in Long Island City was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It is still in use by the city, presently by the Board of Education. The New York Times reported in 1938:… read more

Project type: Civic Facilities, Auxiliary Civic Facilities
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Murray Playground – Long Island City NY

In Sept. 1941 the New York Times described a playground being constructed by the WPA in Queens at “Forty-Fifth Avenue and Twenty-first Street.” This site, Murray Playground, is still in use today. New York City’s Parks Department writes: “The City… read more

Project type: Parks and Recreation, Athletic Courts and Fields, Comfort Stations (Restrooms), Playgrounds
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Playground Thirty-Five – Long Island City NY

Parks received the property for this park from the Department of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity in 1940. It completed this playground, originally called the P.S. 166 Playground after the adjacent school, in June 1941. The press release announcing the… read more

Project type: Parks and Recreation, Playgrounds
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Queensbridge Park – Long Island City NY

Parks acquired this land to the West and the South of the WPA’s Queensbridge Housing development in 1939. The press release announcing the completion of a WPA playground on the site in July 1941 explained: “The southerly section lying alongside… read more

Project type: Parks and Recreation, Athletic Courts and Fields, Comfort Stations (Restrooms), Playgrounds, Tennis Courts
Agency: Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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