Jacob Riis Park Central Mall building, 1936 drawing. As you can see, it's like the Orchard Beach pavilion but on a smaller scale. Jacob Riis Park is on the Rockaway Peninsula of Queens, across Jamaica Bay from Brooklyn, connected by the new Marine Parkway Bridge (also designed by Embury). Jacob Riis Park was already a beach with a bathhouse by 1934, when the NYC Parks department began its New Deal construction projects, at which time resolved to fully develop the entire tract for bathing and beach recreation[3,p.81]. Plans for the redesign and enlargment of the bath house and recreational facilities at the park were developed from the summer of 1936 to the spring of 1937 by Clinton Lloyd, chief of architectural design, and Aymar Embury II, architectural consultant.[3,p.93] The previously existing bathhouse was largely demolished and the remainder significantly enlarged and remodeled[3.pp.94-95] and a new bathhouse called the Central Mall Building was added (shown above, conceived by Embury[1,p.168]), along with a boardwalk, first-aid stations, a maintenance shop and garage, refereshment stands, boiler room, electrical hut, a new parking area ("the largest single paved parking space in the United States"[1,p.170]), a surf shop, concessions, floodlights, and so on, plus numerous athletic fields and game courts as well as a small golf course. All WPA-built[4].