10 REPORT OF THE 



plants, valuable for their rarity- Damage from the storm was 

 widespread in this locality, and the loss may be partially esti- 

 mated from the fact that fifty wagon loads of broken limbs and 

 other debris, resulting from the storm, was gathered in the 



Park. 



SMALL PARKS. 



WASHINGTON FARE, OR FORT GREENE. 



A shelter building for the accommodation of visitors, more 

 especially women and children, was completed during the year, 

 money having been appropriated for the purpose by the Board 

 of Estimate in 1880. 



Further work upon this Park, as well as upon the City Park, 

 Carroll Park, Tompkins Park, Ac, has been confined to the 

 ordinary maintenance. These parks, Fort Greene and Tomp- 

 kins Park particularly, are largely used, and justify a greater 

 expenditure of money for maintenance and proper police surveil- 

 lance than has heretofore been provided; and they afford large 

 opportunity for recreation, especially to the young people in 

 their respective neighborhoods. 



PARKWAYS. 



The Ocean Parkway and the Eastern Parkway have con- 

 tinued to afford the means of communication and pleasure 

 riding for all classes of our citizens in accordance with the 

 general purposes of their design. The Commissioners think 

 that the exceptional character of these improvements, and 

 their geographical location in reference to the city, justifies a 

 liberal expenditure upon their repair and preservation. The ex- 

 pense incurred for surfacing, the care of the drainage and 

 the trees, and for sprinkling the roads during a large part of 

 the year, are much smaller in comparison than that allowed for 

 less important works in neighboring cities. 



BEDFORD AVENUE. 

 The appropriation for repairing and cleaning the bituminous 

 concrete which forms the superstructure of this prominent 



