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tirely blocked up at its point of intersection with Atlantic avenue, 

 but an examination of the intervening district shows that it might, 

 by judicious arrangement, be extended in a nearly direct line to the 

 Warren street boundary of the park property, without passing 

 through any ground now occupied by valuable buildings. 



We have, therefore, made a fresh study, which we herewith 

 lay before you, of an arrangement of street lines within the dis- 

 trict now under your control northeast of the plaza, so as to include 

 the suggested extension of Clinton avenue in our general scheme of 

 approaches to the principal gateway of the park. 



It will be observed, on an examination of the modified plan, that 

 the whole design is now more symmetrical than it was as origi- 

 nally presented, the junction of Clinton avenue, with the plaza on 

 one side, as proposed, corresponding with the junction of Douglas 

 street, with the plaza on the other side — as now laid down on the 

 city map. 



It will also be noticed that, after crossing Underhill avenue, 

 Butler, Douglas and Degraw streets are now arranged to approach 

 the park on lines more direct than those indicated on the prelim- 

 inary study submitted for consideration last year. 



It would undoubtedly add much to the value of the park if it 

 could be reached, by citizens living at a distance, through liberally 

 conceived approaches which were, in all their extent, convenient 

 and pleasant to walk, ride or drive in. But the value of the prop- 

 erty which would have to be acquired by the city, and of that 

 which would necessarily be destroyed in forming an improvement 

 of this character through any part of the region west and north 

 of Prospect hill, is now so great that no scheme for the pur- 

 pose would be likely to meet with favor. It is, however, not too 

 late to consider whether routes approaching the park and connect- 

 ing its drives with other points, in which your constituents will 

 have special interest, may not be laid out beyond that part of the 

 city in which the value of land is already so great as to make such 

 undertakings formidable. 



In our preliminary report we suggested routes leading from the 

 south-western part of the park toward Fort Hamilton and Coney 

 Island. We have since observed that an avenue likely to be, at no 

 distant -day, quite, as useful as either of these, might be formed be- 

 tween the eastern gate of the park and the high land about the 

 Ridgewood reservoir, following the present city line. When the 

 streets now planned in this vicinity shall have been once opened, it 



