McCarren Play Center 
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Full Address: Lorimer Street between Driggs Avenue and Bayard Street, Brooklyn, NY
Alternative Address:
Year Built: 1934-36
Year Designated: 2007
Year Published: 2007
Architect: Aymar Embury II
Key words: Fiorello LaGuardia, Robert Moses, Works Progress Administration, New Deal, Great Depression, pool complex, public facility, Parks Department, public park,Including the bath house, swimming pool, diving pool, wading pool, filter house, lifeguard house, brick perimeter walls, piers and cast-iron fencing, comfort stations, linking pathways, and the planted median paralleling the western side of the bath house.
Notes:
Architectural Styles:
   Art Moderne

Files:
   View PDF (2007McCarrenPlayCenter.pdf)

Subjects:
   New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Reports: Brooklyn
   Brooklyn Greenpoint
   New York Buildings