NYC New Deal Map
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Translations (see below for
credits):
The New Deal in New York City 1933-1943
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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.
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Recent:
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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
- How to fix the USA before the next elections (and why it's not happening)
- Table of over 1000 New Deal projects in New York City
- Aymar Embury II – Unsung Hero of the New York City New Deal
- 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. - 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...
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Photo galleries
NYC New Deal highlights - Live photomontage (7 Aug 2022: now loads faster)
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Translations of this page courtesy of...
| Language | Link | Date | Translator | Organization |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 中文 | 2018/01/16 | anonymous | Word Art |
| Chinese (traditional) | 繁體字 | 2019/08/28 | Austin Cole | MattressMoz.com |
| French | Français | 2018/01/16 | anonymous | Koh Samui Events |
| Hebrew | עברית | 2018/01/16 | anonymous | Wall Art Sydney |
| Italian | Italiano | 2018/01/16 | anonymous | Content Marketing Agency |
| Korean | 한글 | 2018/01/16 | anonymous | Wall Art Australia |
| Polish | Polski | 2018/01/16 | anonymous | Personalised Travel Maps |
| Spanish | Español | 2018/01/16 | anonymous | Wall Art Australia |
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.
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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