Photo: FHL_1694-25,
Mayor Fiorello H LaGuardia,
New York City Department of Records and Information Sevices.
May 23, 1941; caption: "Highbridge Park, Manhattan:
WPA workers
standing by newly installed park benches." This demonstrates that besides
the WPA's more obvious creations (pool, play center, playgrounds, and ball
fields), it contributed to the general infrastructure: benches, paths,
lighting, drainage, landscaping, trees, and plants, as can be seen by
comparing the
January 1934 image of the park with
some of the modern views that follow.