 While presenting the park plan, McAneny also put forward plans for a vehicular bridge or tunnel between Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn and the Riis Park/Fort Tilden area, acting as an extension of Flatbush Avenue.Although the bathhouse was built based off the RPA plans, it and the other plans were rejected in part due to the difficulty and high cost of landscaping and planting in the area.In January 1934, Robert Moses was appointed commissioner of the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, following the unification of the five individual borough departments.