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The second extends from this point to the low lands at Marcy Avenue projected. It is 

 treated in a naturalistic way. The third .from this point to the Hackensack River. This 

 division provides a naturalistic lake and a great grassy field for recreation. 



Commencing, then, at the Boulevard, we enter the park lands through a broad plaza 

 by means of double gateways for driveways and paths. This plaza is suggested topographi- 

 cally by the comparatively level hilltop. Its purpose, besides giving a strong, dignified 

 introduction, serves to care for the congestion of traffic which will arise from the use of 

 the park. Furthermore, the extensive park beyond, owing to its lower level, would not 

 otherwise be suggested by anything along the Boulevard (our great connecting parkway), 

 and this fact alone fully justifies a very handsome treatment at this point. 



At the westerly end of this plaza the driveways unite and the paths converge toward 

 the single roadway. The double driveways have been descending more rapidly than the 

 paths so that the latter are here several feet higher and each on a platform. These plat- 

 forms are further accented by two gazebos from which the longest views from any point 

 in the park may be had. The elevation is 85 feet above the level of the Hackensack River 

 and the view commanded includes the Hackensack, the Meadows, and the Orange Mountains 

 miles beyond. 



A secondary and very important function of this portion of the park will be as a 

 popular rendezvous where people in the immediate vicinity may sit and gossip and enjoy 

 the shade, the outlook, and the fine breezes. 



The steep hillside down to West Side Avenue offers fine opportunities for good effects 

 with trees and flowers. The driveway and paths are necessarily depressed for the sake 

 of grade, and the rising ground on either side will lend itself to very handsome flanking 

 plantations on a rising slope. 



At West Side Avenue, entrances and ample sidewalks amd waiting pavilions provide 

 for the crowds which will arrive and depart by the street-cars and otherwise. This will be 

 a very busy place. In fact we expect that the great majority of the users of the park will 

 arrive and depart by this and the Hudson County Boulevard entrances, inasmuch as the 

 bulk of Jersey City's population is eastward of the park. Hence the important treatment 

 which has been given to these approaches. 



We now enter the main portion of the park. The treatment is not changed, for it 

 is highly desirable that the street crossing should make as little interruption as possible 

 to a feeling of continuity in the park design. 



The continuation of the formal portion of the park leads up to and terminates in an 

 important cross-axis which forms both a fitting climax to what has gone before and a 

 suitable opening out into the informal parts to which we are coming. The treatment 

 here, like that at the Boulevard, was suggested by the topography which gives us our 

 second bench or table-land. 



At the intersection of these two axes we have provided a broad, formal, circular pool 

 surrounded by our driveway and walks, with a balustrade, where the hillside begins on 

 the west. At the two ends of the transverse axis, sites are indicated for buildings, and 

 between them is a broad mall with double walks and four rows of trees. It is our belief 

 that this will be the great center toward which all park interests and activities will converge. 

 From it the driveway divides in a Y-shaped manner, and numerous paths diverge to every 

 quarter of the park. From its terrace-like promenade many of the best vistas will open 

 up. At its north side a site is shown for a shelter building. At the south end provision 



