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grow of the most stately character. It would contain six rows of 

 trees, and the space from house to house being two hundred and sixty 

 feet, would constitute a perfect barrier to the progress of fire. 



PRACTICABLE FUTURE EXTENSIONS OF THE PARKWAY. 



With modifications to adapt it to variations of the topography and 

 the connecting street arrangements, the plan should eventually be ex- 

 tended from the Park, in one direction, to Fort Hamilton, where ground 

 for a small Marine Promenade should be secured, overlooking the Nar- 

 rows and the Bay ; and in the other to Ravenswood, where it should 

 be connected by a bridge with one of the broad streets leading on 

 the New York side to the Central Park. A branch should extend 

 from it to the ocean beach at Coney Island, and other branches 

 might lead out from it to any points at which it should appear that 

 large dwelling quarters were likely to be formed, at such a distance 

 from the main stem that access to it from them would otherwise be in- 

 convenient. 



There are scarcely any houses at present standing on the general line 

 indicated and it would pass nearly parallel to, and be everywhere within 

 from fifteen to thirty minutes walk of the wharves of the East River. 

 The distance between its extreme points would be about ten miles and 

 the average distance of residences upon it from Wall Street would be 

 about half the distance to the Central Park. Spacious and healthful 

 accommodations for a population of 500,000 could be made within ten 

 minutes walk of this Parkway. 



PLAN OF THE PARKWAY NEIGHBORHOOD. 



Our plan, it will be observed, covers more ground than is necessarily 

 required to be taken for the purposes which have been indicated. The 

 object of this is that in addition to providing for an enlargement of the 

 Park advantages, throughout its whole extent, the Parkway may also 

 constitute the centre of a continuous neighborhood of residences of a 

 more than usually open, elegant, and healthy character. It is believed 

 that such a neighborhood would not merely be more attractive, to the 

 prosperous class generally, of the metropolis, than any which can be 

 elsewhere formed within a much greater distance from the commercial 

 centre, but that it will especially meet the requirements of an element 

 in the community that is constantly growing larger and that is in- 

 fluenced by associations and natural tastes that unquestionably deserve 

 to be fostered and encouraged. A typical ease, for the sake of illustra- 

 ting the class in view may be thus presented. A country boy receives 

 a common school education, exhibits ability and at a comparatively 



