AN ACT 



to widen and improve a portion of washington avenue, in 

 the City of Brooklyn, and extend the same into the Town 

 of Flatbush. Passed April 23,1870; three-fifths being 

 present. 



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

 Assembly, do enact as follows : 



Section 1. Washington avenue, in the city of Brooklyn, is hereby 

 widened so as to be eighty feet wide, from Atlantic avenue southerly 

 to the city line of Brooklyn, and shall be opened to that width by 

 adding ten feet in width to the westerly side thereof, as the same is 

 now laid down on the Commissioners' map of the city of Brooklyn. 

 And the said avenue so widened is hereby extended southerly, in a 

 direct line, into the town of Flatbush, until the easterly side thereof 

 intersects a line drawn at right angles to East New York avenue, 

 from a point on the northerly side of said avenue, which point is dis- 

 tant nine hundred and eighty feet westerly from the northwest cor- 

 ner of Perry avenue and East New York avenue, as said avenues are 

 designated by a stone monument, and thence along said right-angled 

 line to the northerly side of said East New York avenue, and which said 

 right-angled line forms the said easterly side of said extended avenue. 

 And the said avenue is hereby further extended by the name of 

 Washington place, from said avenue, and westerly to Flatbush ave- 

 nue, which last extension shall be seventy feet wide, and its northerly 

 side shall begin at a point on the westerly side of said Washington 

 avenue, at a point which is five hundred and ninety-five feet southerly 

 from a point on the westerly side of Washington avenue, formed by 

 extending the southerly line of Montgomery street westerly, and 

 running thence westerly, at right angles to Flatbush avenue, until it 

 reaches said Flatbush avenue ; and all those two triangular pieces of 

 land, at or near the junction of Washington and Underhill avenues, 

 lying between Atlantic avenue and Pacific street, and between the 

 westerly side of Underhill avenue and a line drawn parallel with 

 and one hundred and seventy-four feet easterly therefrom, are 

 hereby added to said Washington avenue, and shall form part there- 

 of, and be so laid down on the Commissioners' map of the city of 

 Brooklyn. 



Sec. 2. The Brooklyn Park Commissioners are hereby directed 

 to open, grade, and otherwise improve the said avenue so widened, 

 and the said extension thereof. And, for the purpose of determining 

 the amount to be paid to the owners of the lands and tenements re- 

 quired to be taken for the purposes of this act, and the expenses 



