Photo: Frank da Cruz, 21 July 2018
See Belmont
Playground gallery
Belmont Playground comfort station, Belmont, Bronx NY, architect:
Aymar Embury II[1]. This rather plain structure is emblematic of
dozens or even hundreds of other comfort stations in NYC parks and
playgrounds for which Embury is credited as architect; quite a few examples
can be seen in the Bronx New Deal gallery.
References:
- New
$200,000 House Planned for Bronx, New York Times, 30 October
1936,
p.43: "...among the building projects filed yesterday, as follows: ...
182nd , s.s. opposite Grote St.: 1-story brick comfort station 25×16;
Dept. of Parks, owner; Aymar Embury 2d, architect; cost,
$6,500.
- NYC Department of Parks
Press Release, July 28, 1937.
- NYC Department of Parks
Press Release, December 4, 1941, which includes a long and detailed plan
for the expanded playground, which does not resemble what we see today
except in layout.
- Belmont
Playground History, NYC Parks website, accessed 21 October 2017.