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REPORT OF THE 



The succeeding year they amended the legislation and in- 

 creased the Commission from seven to eleven. 



The lines of Prospect Park as laid down in the law began at 

 the boundary line between the town of Flatbush and the City of 

 Brooklyn, beginning at Washington avenue, running along Wash- 

 ington avenue to Warren street, Warren street to Vanderbilt av- 

 enue, Vanderbilt avenue to the Park Plaza, Park Plaza to Ninth 



avenue, along Ninth avenue to Third 

 street ; then to Tenth avenue and along 

 Tenth avenue to a point opposite Ninth 

 street, which made the southerly side 

 of the park. It required three subse- 

 quent acts to secure the property which 

 makes the park as it exists to-day. The 

 act of 1861 included the section bound- 

 ed by Flatbush and Ninth avenues and 

 Ninth street, exclusive of the Litchfield 

 property. The act of 1866 added to 

 this the property bounded by Ocean, 

 Franklin, Coney Island avenues and Fif- 

 teenth street as far as Tenth avenue, 

 and the act of 1868 added the section 

 which gives the boundaries as they exist now, which are Flat- 

 bush avenue, Ocean avenue, Coney Island avenue, and Fifteenth 

 street and Ninth avenue. These boundaries were selected by a 

 commission upon the suggestion of Olmsted & Vaux, who were 

 the landscape architects and superintendents succeeding the 

 original engineer, Egbert L. Viele. 



THE EAST SIDE LANDS. 

 The changing of the boundary lines of the Park led to a sale 

 of all that portion of the land between Flatbush, Washington, Van- 

 derbilt avenues and Warren street (now Prospect place), with the 

 exception of the portion to the south of the Eastern Parkway, 

 which was retained as a site for a Museum, an Academy of Arts 

 and Sciences and an Arboretum. The sale of the remainder of 

 the land raised up questions requiring years of legal proceedings 

 to obtain decisions that would give a clear title to the property 

 thus conveyed. 



J. S. T. STRANAHAN. 



