TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT. G7 



new Boston Road iMilrance, at West Farms, was finished in July, 

 1907. Owing to the great amount of fiUing required, and the 

 very consideralile surfaee area to be treated, this item of con- 

 struction required an unusnally large amount of labor and ma- 

 terials. The work was performed in a thorough manner, and 

 on the front was brought to a proper finish with a concrete curb 

 carried on a suital)le curve from i82d Street into the P>oston Road, 

 beyond the entrance. The improvement of the plaza was fin- 

 ished long before llie completion of the Pavilion. The Pavilion 

 was finally accepted in Xovember. and opened to the public im- 

 mediately thereafter. 



West Farms Block. — The park area of about four acres sit- 

 uated inunetliately south of the l^oat House, between the Boston 

 Road and the Bronx River, is familiarly known at present as the 

 "West Farms Block." This once rocky and unsightly spot has 

 been fully improved, and brought up to the standard of the sur- 

 rounding portions of the Park. The northern end of this area 

 was judiciously fitted to the Boat House and the retaining wall 

 south of the boat platform, and finished at its highest point as 

 an outlook up the Lake. -V walk twelve feet wide and 870 feet 

 long was constructed from the northeastern corner of Boston 

 Road and 180th Street (at the Subway terminus) through the 

 new grounds up to the Boat House. The street frontages were 

 planted with shrubbery. Fortunately the Boston Road has been 

 paved with brick by the Department of Highways from the Sub- 

 way terminus up to the entrance to the Zoological Park. 



Through the completion of the various improvements men- 

 tioned above the wdiole southeastern quarter of the Zoological 

 Park is now in a finished state, excepting only a very small area 

 around the incomplete Public Comfort station. From the Bos- 

 ton Road Entrance a walk now leads north to the bison ranges and 

 Lydig Memorial Arch, while another leads westward to the soutli 

 door of the Antelope House, and beyond. 



Iiiiproz'cinciit at Biiifalo Entrance. — At the Buffalo l^itrance 

 the rough wall of loose rock which formed the southern boundary 

 of the entrance was replaced by a permanent and sightly wall and 

 coping of concrete. On this a new fence was erected — along the 

 corral of the European bison — and the space in front of it was 

 carefullv graded and planted. This was completed in the month 

 of June. 



Yards and Walks for Small-Deer House. — Almost c((ual in im- 

 portance with the work done near West Farms was the building 

 of the walks, yards, fences and grounds surrounding the Small- 



