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future wants of our teeming population shall require more 

 extended park accommodations, as no doubt they will, the 

 Commissioners believe the public convenience will be better 

 served by opening other parks in different and more remote 

 sections of the city, than by adding to the present ample 

 dimensions of Prospect Park. 



In this connection, the Commissioners would add, that the 

 ([iiestion of the best disposition to be made of the land lying 

 cast of Flatbush avenue still remains undetermined. Subse- 

 quent reflection, aided by suggestions contained in the more 

 recent study which has been given to the subject by our land- 

 scape architects (their report thereon being hereto appended) 

 has confirmed the opinion expressed by them three years since, 

 when the present board first took up the consideration of the 

 subject, that the division of the park by the broad thoroughfare 

 which connects the city with the large agricultural country 

 beyond it would seriously interfere with those impressions 

 of amplitude and continuous extent which are necessary to 

 landscape effect ; and that this objection cannot be obviated by 

 any reasonable amount of bridging which could be introduced 

 for the purpose of connecting the two portions together. The 

 reservoir grounds also encroach so largely upon the eastern 

 section, that they, in effect, subdivide its two parts into very 

 insignificant dimensions for park purposes. The formation of 

 the ground, moreover, as was suggested in a former report of 

 onr landscape architects on the subject, is of a character that 

 renders its improvement very expensive ; and when the best 

 thing possible shall have been done, it must always present a 

 cramped, confined and unsatisfactory appearance. In addition 

 to this, the full development of the great Southeastern parkway 

 through the heart of the Kinth Ward, which is now in the 

 hands of Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment, and about 

 to be opened up to the public, will require this splendid im- 

 provement to be carried through to the plaza east of the reser- 

 voir, and will still further lessen the capabilities of this portion 

 of the park. 



The reservoir hill, with its magnificent prospect, will always 

 form one of the most attractive features of this charming- 

 locality, and should, in connection with general park improve- 

 ment, aided by a light foot bridge thrown across the avenue, be 



