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.