Bronx - Photo #97

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Oval Park, Norwood, The Bronx, 4 September 2020, built by the New Deal Works Projects Administration (WPA) in 1934-1937 on the site of an old reservoir. The main entrance is on Bainbridge Avenue at Van Cortlandt Avenue East, a couple blocks south of Gun Hill Road and Montefiore Hospital and two short blocks from the southmost corner of Woodlawn Cemetery. The park is encircled by elevated overlooks and promenades at different levels. Oval Park serves as Norwood's social and recreational center and includes an athletic field, basketball courts, tennis courts, a cricket pitch, a 400-meter running track, a new skate park, playgrounds, a dog run, sitting areas, and an Art-Moderne Recreation Center (visible at right-center, behind the trees) designed by Aymar Embury II and built from granite quarried and cut onsite by WPA workers.