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business street, in that the process which we have described, by which 

 wagon-ways were introduced into the old streets, has been carried 

 one step further, the wagon-way having itself been divided as the 

 foot-way formerly was, and a space of ground having been introduced, 

 within which there is a shaded walk or mall, and a bridle-road, with 

 strips of turf and trees. 



THE PARKWAY.— A FIFTH STAGE. 

 The " Parkway " plan which we now propose advances still an- 

 other step, the mall being again divided into two parts to make room 

 for a central road-way, prepared with express reference to pleasure 

 riding and driving, the ordinary paved traffic road-ways, with their 

 flagged sidewalks, remaining still on the outside of the public mall 

 for pedestrians, as in the Berlin example. The plan in this way 

 provides for each of the several requirements which Ave have thus far 

 examined, giving access for the purposes of ordinary traffic to all the 

 houses that front upon it, offering a special road for driving and rid- 

 ing without turning commercial vehicles from the right of way, and 

 furnishing ample public walks, with room for seats, and with borders 

 of turf in which trees may grow of the most stately character. It 

 would contain six rows of trees, and the space from house to house 

 being two hundred and sixty feet, would constitute a perfect barrier 

 to the progress of fire. 



PRACTICABLE FUTURE EXTENSIONS OF THE PARKWAY. 



With modifications to adapt it to variations of the topography 

 and the connecting street arrangements, the plan should eventually 

 be extended from the park, in one direction, to Fort Hamilton, where 

 ground for a small marine promenade should be secured, overlooking 

 the Narrows and the Bay ; and, in the other, to Ravenswood, where 

 it should be connected by a bridge with one of the broad streets 

 leading, on the New York side, to the Central Park. A branch 

 should extend from it to the ocean beach at Coney Island, and other 

 branches might lead out from it to any points at which it should 

 appear that large dwelling quarters were likely to be formed, at such 

 a distance from the main stem that access to it from them would 

 otherwise be inconvenient. 



There are scarcely any houses at present standing on the general 

 line indicated, and it would pass nearly parallel to, and be every- 

 where within from fifteen to thirty minutes' walk of the wharves of 

 the East River. The distance between its extreme points would 

 be about ten miles, and the average distance of residences upon 



