Williamsbridge Reservoir was a natural lake (despite its name) measuring 13.1 acres (53,000 m²) just south of Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York. Specifically the body of water was located at 208th Street and Bainbridge Avenue. It was shaped like a saucer and was normally forty-one feet deep Its water level dropped approximately fourteen feet in mid-August 1901. On April 3, 1934 Commissioner of Water Supply, Gas and Electricity, Maurice P. Davidson, proposed that it be offered to Robert Moses to be used as a park site.