42 REPORT OF THE 



road car stables at Windsor Terrace. This last named en- 

 trance should never have been made, as there was not the 

 slightest need of it for park uses. An appropriation was asked 

 for to be applied to the construction of such an entrance at 

 Ninth street, but it was not allowed. Such an approach to the 

 park would be a vast accommodation to the throngs who enter 

 it from that side, beside being at the same time, by reason of 

 its sightliness, a spur to the development that is taking place 

 in the city in this direction. In connection with this entrance 

 it may not he irrelevant to glance for an instant at the whole 

 park line along Ninth avenue from Union street or the main 

 entrance to Fifteenth street, in order that we may consider it 

 in its relations to the subsequent development of Brooklyn in 

 that direction and so in its relations to the value of adjoining 

 real estate. 



Laws have been recently enacted providing that Ninth 

 avenue shall be placed under the charge of the Department of 

 Public Works. For years the whole line of the park facing 

 on this avenue has been infested with nuisances of various 

 kinds. This has been peculiarly so by reason of the lonely 

 character of the place as a largely unpatrolled district. Per- 

 sons of immoral character and conduct have made it nightly a 

 reproachable resort. It is time that such nuisances were 

 abated. The whole Ninth avenue side, from Union street to 

 Fifteenth street, should be properly graded, fenced, paved and 

 lighted and a proper police force established there. If such 

 were the case the effect upon the value of adjoining property 

 would be felt immediately. To this end we call upon the adj< >in- 

 |hg property owners to unite with the Department of Public 

 Works and also with the Park Department in the carrying out 

 of such much-needed measures for improvement. The Pros- 

 pect Park slopes, from a geographical point of view, furnish 

 the very finest building sites in Brooklyn. The air of this 

 elevation is excellent, the outlook over city, bay and ocean 

 unobstructed, the proximity to the park a most desirable, fea- 

 ture. When it is remembered what a sanitarium it affords for 

 convalescents and little children it is not surprising that the 



