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sequence thereof, been laid and paid, that an obligation arises 

 on the part of the city in the nature of a contract not to sell. 

 The court, however, repudiate the idea of a contract, and 

 affirm the principle of a former decision, where it was held 

 that if a street be discontinued, and the value of lands abutting 

 on other parts of it, or on neighboring streets, is lessened, it is 

 not such an injury to the owner as will entitle him to damages. 

 The city of Brooklyn, they say, was not the grantor of the 

 neighboring owner, and did not induce him to buy it, by any 

 declared purpose of creating this park.. Any enhanced value 

 of his property was an incidental benefit to him in its greater 

 readiness of sale at an increased price, and any depreciation in 

 value is an incidental detriment. The same results flow, in 

 greater or less degree, from the commencement or abandon- 

 ment of any of the measures of municipal enterprise, whether 

 general or local. But it would be going too far to hold, in 

 the absence of any direct and particular relation between the 

 city and the owner of real estate, that after a projected public 

 work had favorably influenced the value of his property, he 

 could forbid the abandonment of it, or that there existed any 

 enforceable right if it was abandoned. The general good is 

 always to prevail over partial individual inconvenience. 



After this emphatic approval of the city's title, by the 

 highest legal authority in our State, the Park Commissioners 

 took measures for carrying out the directions of the Legisla- 

 ture, contained in the act of 18 TO, by making arrangements to 

 sell the property referred to at as early a day as practicable. 

 To this end, and preparatory to a sale, they have been en- 

 gaged in putting the land in merchantable condition, by per- 

 fecting a plan for the laying out of streets and avenues 

 radiating from the Plaza, and connecting with the widened 

 streets and avenues south and east of Washington avenue, 

 opening up through the hills east of the Plaza, a continuation 

 of the newly-improved Sackett-street avenue, and using the 

 excavated earth for filling in the low lands on the tract, and 

 bringing them up to the grade of Washington avenue. The 

 Commissioners hope to be able to announce, at an early day, 

 the completion of their arrangements for the sale of a portion 

 of this land, and for a continuation of sales from time to time, 

 as may be deemed expedient. 



