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way be connected with the educational system of the city, but which 

 will not be erected or owned by it, the terms on which the different 

 sites would be given being such as to secure a share of control in the 

 management of each institution, sufficient to ensure to the city an 

 adequate return for the value of the land it parts with. 



SUBURBAN CONNECTIONS. 



It will be observed that we have indicated the commencement of 

 a road leading out of the west side of the circle, in connection with 

 the southern entrance to the park. We have done so from a convic- 

 tion that a shaded pleasure drive, in extension of that of the park, 

 and free from the embarrassments which will inevitably be associated 

 with a road partially occupied by a line of railway, and which is 

 also used as a trotting course for fast horses, will soon be demanded 

 by the frequenters of the park. Such a road, whatever may be the 

 character of the country through which it passes, should be in itself 

 of a picturesque character. It should, therefore, be neither very 

 straight nor very level, and should be bordered by a small belt of 

 trees and shrubbery. 



We have made no special survey with reference to the course 

 which should be followed by such a road, but the first objective 

 point in view would unquestionably be the ocean beach, and this 

 might very properly be its terminus. It has occurred to us, how- 

 ever, that either from some point a little further east on the beach, 

 thus made accessible by carriages from the park, or from a point 

 more directly in connection with the park drives, a similar road may 

 be demanded in the future which shall be carried through the rich 

 country lying back of Brooklyn, until it can be turned, without 

 striking through any densely occupied ground, so as to approach the 

 East River, and finally reach the shore at or near Ravenswood. 

 From this point, either by ferry or high bridges, it may be thrown 

 over the two narrow straits into which the East River is divided in 

 this neighborhood, and connection may thus be had with one of the 

 broad streets leading directly into the Central Park, and thus with 

 the system of somewhat similar sylvan roads leading northward, 

 now being planned by the Commissioners of the Central Park. 

 Such an arrangement would enable a carriage to be driven on the 

 half of a summer's day through the most interesting parts both of 

 the cities of Brooklyn and New York, through their most attractive 

 and characteristic suburbs, and through both their great parks ; hav- 

 ing a long stretch of the noble Hudson, with the Palisades in the 

 middle distance, and the Shawangunk range of mountains in the 



