The
Henry Hudson Bridge, over which traffic on the
Henry Hudson Parkway flows between Manhattan and the
Bronx, designed by
Aymar
Embury II[1][2], Robert Moses' chief architect, paid
(like all Moses' design staff) by the New Deal[3].
Photo: Wikimedia
Commons.
References:
- Federal Writers' Project, The WPA Guide to New York City, Random House (1939), p.352.
- Aymar
Embury II, Lehman College biography.
- Robert
Moses and the Modern Park System (1929-1965), New York City Parks
Department website, 28 July 2015: ”At the Parks Department
headquarters in the Arsenal, an enormous park design and construction team
assembled. Architect Aymar Embury II and landscape architect Gilmore
D. Clarke were among the 1,800 designers and engineers drawing up plans for
the expansion, rehabilitation and modernization of New York's parks. An
additional 3,900 construction supervisors oversaw the work of an army of
Parks Department relief workers — 70,000 strong in 1934 — all
paid by the federal government.”
- Caro, Robert A., The Power Broker - Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Vintage Books
(1974), pp.526-540.
- New Deal Assistance in
NYC Parks Department Projects, 1934-43.