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forth in the plan and public statement above mentioned, we make, 

 for the purposes of this report, the subjoined quotation, which sets 

 forth clearly the limitations that are to be recognized in New York 

 as controlling the designs of the Commissioners: 



" We occasionally, in some country city, see a wide street orna- 

 mented with umbrageous trees, having spaces of green interposed in 

 its area, the portion used for travel being very limited. This 

 arrangement is only possible where thronging population and crowd- 

 ing commerce are not at liberty to overlay and smother the laws 

 that arc made to secure the legitimate use of the public streets. It 

 would seem inexpedient, at any rate, until some better permanent 

 administration of our streets is secured, to attempt these fanciful 

 arrangements to any great extent in a commercial city, under our 

 form of government." 



It is clear, therefore, that the Central Park Commissioners have 

 no intention of carrying out, in New York, any such scheme as the 

 " Parkway," and consequently if, as we believe, the requirements 

 that such a plan is designed to meet are already felt to exist in this 

 community, Brooklyn can soon be made to offer some special advan- 

 tages as a place of residence to that portion of our more wealthy and 

 influential citizens whose temperament, taste or education leads them 

 to seek for a certain amount of rural satisfaction in connection with 

 their city homes. 



Although the plots of ground appropriated to the Brooklyn and 

 Central Parks are entirely different in shape, while their landscape 

 opportunities and general possibilities of design are equally dis- 

 similar, a generic family resemblance will yet be found between the 

 two pleasure-grounds, simple because they are both called into ex- 

 istence to meet the same class of wants, in the same class of people, 

 at the same metropolitan centre. 



The Brooklyn parkway, on the other hand, will, if executed, be a 

 practical development of the ideas set forth in this report, which 

 seem to be particularly applicable to the city of Brooklyn, and 

 which, as we have shown, are considered by those in authority to be 

 unsuitable for development in the city of New York ; it will conse- 

 quently have no such family resemblance to the New York boule- 

 vards as exists between the two parks, and its attractions will, 

 for a time at any rate, be of a special and somewhat individual 

 character. 



In pursuing the general question of approaches to the park, in 

 accordance with your instructions, we have thus been led to the ex- 

 amination of some other scarcely less important topics, and although 



