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private interests of much importance would be found to stand in 

 antagonism in this respect to those of the public. 



RELATIONS OF THE PARK TO THE STREET ARRANGEMENTS 

 OF THE CITY. 



Your Board having brought these suggestions before the public, 

 they have during the last year attracted considerable attention. One 

 of the minor recommendations has been already taken up by a body 

 of citizens, and an organized effort to carry it out is understood to 

 be in progress. Under your instructions a topographical survey has 

 also been made of a section of the ground to which the larger scheme 

 applies, being that lying immediately east of the park, and extending 

 from it to the City Line ; and a study has been prepared, also under 

 your instructions, and which is herewith presented, for a revision of 

 a part of the present city map of this ground, with a view to the 

 introduction of the suggested improvement. 



The period seems to have arrived, therefore, for a full and com- 

 prehensive inquiry as to the manner in which the scheme would, if 

 carried out, affect the substantial and permanent interests of the 

 citizens of Brooklyn, and of the metropolis at large. 



The project in its full conception is a large one, and it is at once 

 conceded that it does not follow, but anticipates, the demand of the 

 public ; that it assumes an extension of the city of Brooklyn, and a 

 degree of wealth, taste, and refinement to be likely to exist among its 

 citizens which has not hitherto been definitely had in view ; and that 

 it is even based upon the presumption that the present street system, 

 not only of Brooklyn, but of other large towns, has serious defects, 

 for which, sooner or later, if these towns should continue to advance 

 in wealth, remedies must be devised, the cost of which will be ex- 

 travagantly increased by a long delay in the determination of their 

 outlines. 



ELEMENTS OF ORDINARY STREET ARRANGEMENTS. 



What is here referred to under the designation of our present 

 street system, is essentially comprised in the two series of thorough- 

 fares extending in straight lines to as great a distance within a town 

 as is found practicable, one series crossing the other at right angles, 

 or as nearly so as can be conveniently arranged. Each of the 

 thoroughfares of this system consists of a way in the center, which 

 is paved with reference solely to sustaining the transportation upon 

 wheels of the heaviest merchandise, of a gutter on each side of this 



