Sunset Play Center children's comfort station
4200 7th Avenue | Sunset Park | built 1936
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1936
The city approves the comfort station's bronze signs in October 1936, three months after the pool opens
The Sunset Play Center opens on July 20, 1936, the sixth of New York's eleven WPA pools to open and the first in Brooklyn. It is ready for opening day except for a few finishing touches, among them the bronze signs at the comfort station, which are not approved until October 1936.
“…completed in time for the opening with the exception of some of the finishing details such as the bronze signs at the comfort station…”
- 1936
The children's comfort station gets separate boys' and girls' doors with signs at a child's eye level
The brick comfort station at the north end of the pool bleachers was originally the children's comfort station. Its north front had separate boys' and girls' entrances, marked by cast-stone signs set low for children, and a concrete ramp led to the girls' door. A bronze sign reading Children's Comfort Station once hung on a corner. The stone signs and the ramp survive, though the doors are bricked in.
“Cast stone signs (one reading "BOYS" and the other reading "GIRLS") located at a child's eye level still exist…”
- 2007
The old children's comfort station sits closed off from the pool deck and serves as storage
When the Landmarks Preservation Commission designates the Sunset Play Center in 2007, the former children's comfort station is no longer open to swimmers. The report records that it serves as storage space and cannot be reached from the pool deck. It is built of Flemish bond brick on a stepped bluestone base.
“The structure is not accessible from the pool deck.”
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