REPORT 



OF THE 



Department of Parks 



FOR 1891. 



Department of Parks, ) 



Room 4, City Hall. V 



Brooklyn, January 31st, 1893. ) 



To the Honorable the Common Council. 



Gentlemen : — 



The Commissioners of the Department of Parks hereby 

 furnish your Honorable Body with a full report of their 

 proceedings for the year 1891, embracing a detailed state- 

 ment of their receipts and expenditures for that time. 



The Commissioners of the Department of Parks would 

 respectfully report that the Board of Estimate appropriated 

 for the year 1891 $389,810 for Public Parks and Parkways, 

 and $4,000 for Coney Island Concourse and Parade Ground. 

 These amounts, together with $141,018.79 for balances over 

 from 1889 and 1890, made the amount available for Park 

 purposes for 1891, $534,828.79. Of this amount there has 

 been expended during the year 1891, $399,492.28, leaving a 

 balance of $135,336.51, against which there are some bills 

 and bailees of contracts outstanding. 



Below please find a synopsis furnished by the Superin- 



