DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 



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SITE OF LINCOLN TERRACE. 



WORK ON BROOKLYN FOREST. 



The greatest of these parks is Brooklyn Forest, the mag- 

 nificent natural forest stretching along the ridge of hills from 

 Cypress Hills east to Richmond Hill. It is easy of access from 

 all parts of the city, and is destined to be the most attractive 

 pleasure ground in all the greater New York. The original de- 

 sign of the Park was simply to construct a main road and such 

 smaller roads as were required to make accessible the various 

 portions of it needed for special purposes. 



Messrs. Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot, the consulting landscape 

 architects, mapped out the main road, and during the summer 

 months and late in the fall a large force of men were employed 

 in grading and preparing it for the subsequent treatment neces- 

 sary to create a permanent drive. Across the Long Island Rail- 

 road there was built an ornamental but substantial steel bridge. 

 The late Austin Corbin, president of the Long Island Railroad 

 Company, co-operated in this work. He was much interested in 

 the natural beauties of the park, and offered to aid in its develop- 

 ment in every way that was possible. His sudden and untimely 

 death was in this as in many other ways a public misfortune. 



