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the Supreme Court and duly entered in the office of the Clerk of 

 Kings County on August 7, 1895, appointing Edward J. O'Flyn, 

 Francis Gross and William Walton such commissioners of ap- 

 praisal, and said commissioners having taken their oaths of office, 

 and the said law having been amended by Chapter 990 of the Laws 

 of 1896, which provides that the City of Brooklyn may at its option 

 to be exercised by the head of the Department of Parks, with the 

 consent of the Mayor, without any suit or proceeding for that 

 purpose, enter upon, use, occupy and enjoy the lands sought to 

 be acquired for the purpose of the extension of the Eastern Park- 

 way and the widening and extension of Buffalo avenue, as the 

 same are laid out upon the maps heretofore filed in the offices of 

 the Register and Clerk of the County of Kings and the Commis- 

 sioner of Public Works of the City of Brooklyn, pursuant to said 

 laws, and the Mayor of the City of Brooklyn having given his 

 consent ; 



You will please take notice that the City of Brooklyn elects to 

 exercise its option and to enter upon, use, occupy and enjoy the 

 said lands so sought to be acquired for the purposes above men- 

 tioned, and will on or after enter 

 upon, use, occupy and enjoy the land hereinafter described, said 

 land being within the lines of the said Eastern Parkway, as the 

 same is laid out upon the said maps. 



Dated Brooklyn, 1896. 



Commissioner of Parks of the City of Brooklyn. 



While the notices were being served the Department advertised 

 for bids on different sections of the work, and these having been 

 received, contracts were entered into for the construction of the 

 road. It is to be completed by the first of July. Already the 

 section from Bushwick avenue to Ridgewood Park is more than 

 half finished. The character of the extension differs somewhat 

 from the old Parkway. The centre of the roadway is to be 

 macadam as far as Bushwick avenue and Vanderveer street, the 

 sides being vitrified brick. From Vanderveer street to Ridge- 

 wood Park the roadway will be composed entirely of vitrified 

 brick. Across Vermont street, through which pass the pipes con- 

 veying to the city its water supply, a viaduct is being built, in order 

 to avoid the danger of crushing the water pipes. The new termi- 

 nus of the Parkway affords one of the most magnificent water 

 views to be obtained anywhere, stretching across Jamaica Bay 

 and the ocean as far as the twin-lighted Highlands of New Jersey. 



