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The WPA’s Hudson Square Home

In the summer of 1935, the Federal Writers Project and Federal Art Project were founded as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Like other New Deal Programs, these programs…

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The WPA Today

…Jackson Pollack and Willem de Kooning, were also launched thanks to WPA endowments.” For preservationists, however, there is one project of the WPA that still proves particularly useful today. posters…

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The New Deal is Still Living

…the actual New Deal contribution is much greater. To illustrate: the FY 1938-39 WPA Summary Report notes that in New York City in those twelve months alone, the WPA did an almost…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Essex Market

WPA funds to create several indoor markets required to have running water, rail facilities, and loading platforms. Between 1929 and 1941, the city closed over 40 open-air markets, bringing the…

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An East Village Survivor

…Since 1874 it has also served as the home of the Women’s Prison Association (WPA), a reform organization seeking to better the lives of women who have been through the…

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Village Awardee Round-Up!

…policy work. Founded in 1845 by abolitionist and activist Abby Hopper Evans and her father Isaac T. Hopper, the WPA has deep roots in our neighborhoods. Hopper Home, the WPA’s…

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Happy Birthday Lee Krasner!

…paint murals. She worked on and off for the WPA until 1943 when the agency dissolved. While working for the WPA, Krasner also studied under German artist Hans Hofmann at…

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The Women’s House of Detention

…its predecessors, with a focus on rehabilitation and WPA-commissioned artworks to uplift its prisoners, it was eventually shut down following ongoing allegations of racial discrimination, abuse, and mistreatment of prisoners….

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My Favorite Things: Archive Edition II

…and one of my favorites, the WPA Federal’s Writer’s Project collection. This 1938 photo from the WPA collection shows a blacksmith shop in the South Village at 33 Cornelia Street….

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20 transformative women of Greenwich Village

…for both men and women, and combined modernist and traditional forms in her poetry. 3. Berenice Abbott, 50 Commerce Street Via Wikimedia Abbott’s photography, especially her Depression-era, WPA-funded book Changing New York,…

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First Avenue Retail Market: Then & Now

…a 30,000 square foot, former-WPA building being used as storage for the Sanitation Department just one block east on 1st Avenue. The new home they would inhabit, though, had a…

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Map It! 7th Street Place

…street grid, and once provided access to five five-story tenement buildings that were demolished by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in the mid 20th century. The group of buildings occupied…

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W.P.A. Anniversary

WPA Mural from Greenwich Village’s Women’s House of Detention (demolished 1974) On April 8, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. This act granted the President…

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The End of the West Washington Market

…streets and one avenue. In 1939, the WPA Guide to New York City described the scene at both the Gansevoort Farmer’s Market and the West Washington Market: “Gansevoort Market, or…

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Theater for The New City: 2018 Village Awardee

…Borough President. Image via Black Tie Magazine In 1986, TNC purchased an underutilized 30,000-square-foot former WPA building at 155 First Avenue with the help of Bess Myerson, Ruth Messinger, and David Dinkins. The First Avenue Retail…

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Greenwich Village at the White House

…White House, Beulah was selected to complete two murals for the WPA Section of Painting and Sculpture, one for a post office in Indianola, Mississippi and one for a post…

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C.B.J. Snyder and the East Village

…As part of the WPA program, the building on East 5th Street was also demolished. In 1953 two alteration permits were filed for the addition of an auditorium wing and…

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Tragedy on Second Avenue

…a more suitable building for the organization’s mission. In 2009, Village Preservation gave the WPA a Village Award. To this day, the house is still owned by the Women’s Prison…

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The Painters of 108 through 114 Waverly Place

…which was particularly well-suited to his works commissioned by the WPA/Federal Art Project. His artwork often featured men hired by the government’s work relief program as subjects, reflecting his interest…

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Abe Lebewohl & His Park

…acquired by the city in 1799 for street-pattern reasons and was developed into a sitting area in 1938 by the WPA and called St. Mark’s Park. By the 70’s it…

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Touring the Former ‘Book Row’

…A. Simon in 1936-37 for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Prior to this transformation, the corner was populated with several buildings in the heart of Book Row.  Harry Gold, who…

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