NYC New Deal Map
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Look! It's all around you!
The New Deal in New York City 1933-1943
Frank da Cruz
Bronx NY
October 2013
Most recent update:
Tue Sep 3 16:20:56 2024 (23 bad links fixed)
The New Deal
was a federal program during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration that
(among other things) put millions of unemployed people to work creating
public works to improve the lives of ordinary people.
Read more in
the Text resources.
New York City New Deal site search:
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- Sortable tables, which stopped being sortable last September, are
now sortable again, for example
here,
here, and
here).
Thanks to Stuart Langridge for the
fix (and for
sorttable.js).
15 July 2023
- New Deal Origin of
Williamsbridge Oval (28-minute interview with me), Youtube,
15 March 2023
- Orchard Beach Pavilion renovation
begins,
14 December 2022.
- Digital database documents vital infrastructure created by
the New Deal, PBS News Hour, 14 November 2022
- March 2022: 86 years later... New historical markers
finally credit WPA for NYC's eleven 1936 swimming pools
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How to fix the USA before the next
elections
(and why it's not happening)
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Table of over 1000 New Deal projects in New York City
-
Aymar Embury II – Unsung Hero of the
New York City New Deal
More news...
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20 May 2022:
AOC explains the Green New Deal... What's not to like???
- Save
New Deal Buildings in East River Park! - November 2021
- Orchard Beach Pavilion
restoration is back on track (?) - 19 May 2021.
-
A History Lesson for Joe Manchin -
22 October 2021
- New York
City Living New Deal Branch - 21 August 2020.
- New temporary
WPA swimming pool New Deal markers for NYC - August 2, 2020.
- New Virginia New Deal photos:
Harrisonburg,
Virginia Beach - July 2020.
- Dear
Joe Biden - Letter to VP Biden from the
children and grandchildren of FDR and his New Dealers - June 2020.
- Richard Walker: From the New Deal
to the Green New Deal - July 2020.
- The
Jobs We Need, New York Times editorial, 24 June 2020: The Times
advocates a return to the New Deal.
("Thanks NYT, for pointing out what the rest of us have been saying and
feeling for decades.")
- A
Solution within Reach: The Civilian Coastal Conservation Corps,
Paul J. Baicich, World
Ocean Forum, 16 June 2020.
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From the New Deal to the Green New Deal, Richard Walker,
Living New Deal, 1 June 2020.
- Roosevelt's
New Deal offered hope in desperate times. We can do the same now,
Eric Rauchway,
The Guardian, 20 May 2020.
- Franklin
Roosevelt Put Young People Back to Work – Let's Do It Again,
New York Times, 18 May 2020.
- Stimulus
isn't enough. Our cities need a post-pandemic New Deal, Patrick
Sisson, Curbed, 16 April 2020.
- Reality
Has Endorsed Bernie Sanders, The New Yorker, 30 March 2020.
- NYC
Mayor de Blasio makes a strong case for a new New Deal
...to fight the epidemic and its economic effects (video, 1h:15m, the link
goes straight to the New Deal part) - 15 March 2020.
- The Gray New Deal -
January 2020.
-
Racial/gender/age justice in the New Deal (Living New Deal) - December
2019.
- Living New
Deal NYC chapter opens, November 17, 2019.
- Watch
Cardi
B interview Bernie Sanders, 16 August 2019.
- Articles
about the Green New Deal (Living New Deal) - updated frequently.
- Raising
the New Deal Flag in New York City, May 22, 2019.
- $60 million Orchard Beach renovation
project announced, 9 January 2019.
- Translations of this page available,
16 January 2019.
- Was
the New Deal Racist?, May 22, 2019.
- Reviving
the New Deal's Lost History in New York City, Peggy Crane.
- The Green New Deal
The
House Resolution, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ed Markey, 5 February 2019.
Washington
Post Op-Ed, Richard Walker, 26 February 2019 [PDF].
- "Where
Our New World Begins", Kevin Baker, Harper's, May 2019.
- "What
the New Deal Can Teach Us About a Green New Deal"
Jacobin Magazine, 26 March 2019,
an interview with Richard Walker,
Director, Living New Deal
- "The New Deal Wasn't What You Think",
Louis Hyman, The Atlantic, March 6, 2019.
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A
historic decades-old mural was painted over at a New York high school
during a repair project, CNN, 2018/06/18.
News4 NY
segment, Jummy Olabanji, NBC, 2018/06/16 (fuzzy video)
[See Clinton High School mural gallery]
When I moved to the Bronx in 2012 I quickly realized I was
surrounded by New Deal projects on every side, and I started to
photograph them and put the photos on a single web page (
New Deal Projects in the Bronx). Before long the
scope of the project expanded to the extent that it needed a front page like
this one to organize all the pieces. I believe
it is important that in
these times of unprecedented economic disparity and destruction of the
working and middle classes that everybody in the USA should know the history
of the New Deal because ANOTHER New Deal is exactly what we need today.
Click on the following images and see what what was
accomplished in just one city (and a few other places) in the 1930s and
early 40s when the government put ordinary people
first...
(
Read more)
Photo galleries
Aymar Embury II -
Prolific NYC New Deal architect (20 November 2019) - 63 sites
Highbridge Play Center and Pool plus
the two Highbridge Parks (October 2019)
New Deal projects in New Mexico
(June 2019) - 27 sites
New Deal projects in New Mexico
(November 2018 - side trip to a state that honors its New Deal heritage
rather than suppressing it) - 25 sites
Jackie Robinson Park and Play Center,
Harlem (August 2018)
Brooklyn Navy Yard (June-July 2018)
Bryant Park - Manhattan (May 2018)
Hillside Homes - Bronx (April 2018)
New Deal sites around Washington
Square (April 2018) - 9 sites
New Deal Schools in the Bronx (and one in
Queens), March 2018 - 37 sites
Oval
Park Bronx 80th Anniversary (September 2017)
New Deal Projects in the Bronx (plus a few in
Queens) - 58 sites
Van Cortlandt Park New Deal Tour (Bronx) - 7 sites
Kingsbridge Heights New Deal Tour (Bronx) - 7 sites
Central Park New Deal Tour (Manhattan) -
14 sites
Riverside Park New Deal Tour (Manhattan) - 12 sites
Randall's Island New Deal Projects
(Borough of Manhattan) - The Island itself and ex-Municipal Stadium
Working New Neal (New York City) - People who have
jobs today thanks to the New Deal
Notable New Deal Projects in New York City - 40 of
the best-known NYC features that nobody knows are New Deal creations
The New Deal in Virginia (2017, 2020) - New Deal
projects in Hampton, Newport News, Viriginia Beach, and Harrisonburg.
America Fights the Depression (photos from 1934 book)
Robert Moses and the Modern City (photos from 2007
book)
Popular Music of the Depression and New Deal
(July 2017)
Translations of this
page courtesy of...
[about translations]
Acknowledgments:
Thanks to Peter da Cruz
for his collaboration on the Van Cortlandt Park gallery; to
Aleida Morel for making the June
26, 2016, photos possible: Bronx-Whitestone Bridge, Ferry Point Park,
Francis Lewis Park, Astoria Park and Pool, and the Queens end of the
Triborough Bridge; to Gray Brechin and Richard Walker of the
Living New
Deal for making the May 2017 Pelham Bay / Split Rock photos possible;
and most recently to Pam Ives for her collaboration on the November 2018
and June 2019 New Mexico New Deal galleries as well as the September 2019
Highbridge safari.
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