DEPARTMENT OF PARKS. 35 



One of the Larger and more prominent walks of tliis kind 

 runs from Music Grove through, to and over Sullivan Heights 

 and terminates at Dairy Cottage, crossing Music Grove and 

 Valley Grove bridges two new constructions that have been 

 made in the Last year. Other walks have been constructed at 

 the Litchfield Picnic Grove, the Music Grove, the Plaza 

 entrance, and the Willinck entrance. There are many beauti- 

 ful and Liidden spots in Prospect Park that are lost to the 

 public, from the fact of their being inaccessible, owing to the 

 want of any path or walk by which to reach them. 



Several structures have been erected in the park since its 

 original construction. The walks bearing upon such structures 

 have not been studied. Such a study would necessitate 

 changes in walks already made, and would Likewise call for 

 new ones not as yet on the map. 



Twenty years of development in Brooklyn have clearly 

 shown that the width of some of the walks in the Park is 

 utterly insufficient to accommodate the vast throngs that pass 

 over their pavements. A notable case of this is the walk Lead- 

 ing from the Willinck ent ranee around to the boat-house. There 

 are many times when it is simply impossible for the jostling 

 crowd that surges over this walk to be kept to the pavement. 

 The high bank on either side is completely worn bare by per- 

 sons who would much prefer to use the walk if it were not in 

 an overcrowded condition. We have thus glanced hurriedly 

 at some of the most needed walks for the park, and we have 

 also specified tin 1 improvements which should be made in con- 

 nection with the old ones tor the better accommodation of the 

 public. 



( cean Parkway. 



Opening out of the southwesterly corner of the park, skirting 

 the beautiful village of Flatbush and afterward passing 

 through the lovely hamlet of Parkville, runs the famous Ocean 

 Parkway straight down to the sea. It is five and a half miles 

 lout;-, k 21'> feet wide and slopes gradually down to the Coney 

 Island Concourse. This broad drive is principally used as a 



