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REPORT OF THE 



PARK PURCHASES. 



At the beginning of the year there were quite a number of 

 pieces of property that had not been acquired, because of the 

 refusal of the owners to accept the price offered. A number of 

 condemnation proceedings were brought, and in every case the 

 Commissioners were of the opinion after hearing testimony, 

 that the price offered was a fair one, based upon market values, 



OPENING RETURN BICYCLE PATH — PROCESSION ENTERING PROSPECT PARK. 



and so decided. The courts have upheld the opinions of the 

 Condemnation Commissioners, and the land has been secured. 



In consequence all the land needed and sought for has been 

 acquired, excepting a three-acre plot in Forest Park, owned by 

 one Leggett, which is now being condemned, and about twenty 

 building lots located on the various maps of improvement com- 

 panies that had started to build up the section of country now 

 embraced in Brooklyn Forest. 



