AN ACT 



To LAY OUT, OPEN, AND IMPROVE A STREET IN THE PlAZA OF PROS- 

 PECT Park, in the City of Brooklyn. Passed May 3, 1870; 



THREE-FIFTHS BEING PRESENT. 



The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and 

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. The Brooklyn Park Commissioners are hereby author- 

 ized and directed to lay out a public street, eighty feet wide, within 

 the Plaza of Prospect Park, in the City of Brooklyn, commencing at 

 the westerly corner of Ninth avenue, at its junction with the said 

 Plaza, and running thence northerly, easterly, and again southerly, 

 around the circumference of the said Plaza, and terminating at the 

 junction of the said Plaza with Flatbush avenue ; and the street so 

 described shall be laid down upon and form part of the Commis- 

 sioners' map of the City of Brooklyn. 



Sec. 2. No building shall at any time be erected upon any lot of 

 land facing on the said Plaza street, unless it be constructed with 

 brick, stone, or iron, at least forty feet high from sidewalk to cornice, 

 with metallic or slate roof. Nor shall there be at any time erected or 

 carried on upon any of said lots, any slaughter-house, tallow-chandlery, 

 furnace, foundry, nail or other factory, or any manufactory for mak- 

 ing starch, glue, varnish, vitriol, oil or gas, or for tanning, dressing, 

 repairing or keeping hides or leather, or any distillery, brewery, or 

 sugar-bakery, lime kiln, railway or other stable or depot, or any 

 manufactory, trade, or business which may be in any wise dangerous, 

 noxious, or offensive to the neighboring inhabitants. And the said 

 street shall include a sidewalk, twenty-five feet wide, to be laid out 

 adjoining the houses to be built thereon, ten feet in width of which 

 shall be allowed to the owners or occupants of said houses adjoining 

 their premises for court-yards or areas, within which to erect porches 

 or stoops to their houses, provided they will inclose such court-yards 

 or areas with good and sufficient iron fences, not exceeding five feet 

 high, and of a pattern to be approved of by said Commissioners. 



Sec. 3. The said Park Commissioners are hereby also directed to 

 take proceedings within sixty days after the passage of this act, to 

 open, grade, and otherwise improve the said street ; and, in order to 

 determine the amount to be paid to the owners of the lands and tene- 

 ments required to be taken for the purposes of this act, they shall 

 first fix a district of assessment, beyond which the property to be 

 benefited by the said opening, as well as the subsequent improvement 

 thereof, shall not be assessed to defray the expenses thereof; they 

 shall then apply to the Supreme Court, at a special term thereof, to 

 be held in the Second Judicial District, upon a notice to be published 



