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direct saving to the city of at least a million and a half 

 of dollars, which is the probable cost of improving this 

 property, if retained as a Park; and of about twenty-five 

 thousand dollars a year for the cost of its maintenance, 

 with interest on both sums. 



The Commissioners also in a former Report, submitted 

 for public consideration, the subject of putting the City 

 Park (which it will be remembered is opposite the Navy 

 Yard wall) to some other use than that to which it is now 

 subjected. Without reference to its natural defects as a 

 pleasure ground, which were stated in that Report, the 

 immediate vicinity of -Washington Park, with its superior 

 attractions of air, prospect, and salubrity, rendering it a 

 much more agreeable place of resort than the City Park, 

 the question is unavoidably presented, whether, under 

 these circumstances, it is at all desirable, or even proper 

 to devote that very considerable amount of expense and 

 labor to its improvement, which would be necessary to 

 make it suitable for the purposes for which it was 

 originally designed ; while its central position, its capacious 

 and convenient sewerage, its nearness to the East River, 

 and its consequent easy communication with all parts of 

 the surrounding country, point to this spot as possessing 

 peculiar advantages for a general market. These sugges- 

 tions have since received further consideration from the 

 Board, and have also obtained as they are pleased to find, 

 the assent of many of our more experienced and sagacious 

 citizens ; and in fact, the Board think they are fully war- 

 ranted in the statement, that public opinion is now deci- 

 dedly in favor of the change which they have suowsted. 



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Brooklyn has long felt the want of a public market, 

 where its retail trade can be furnished with those supplies 

 of provisions for which it is now largely dependant upon 

 the City of New York. The statistics of 18(55, show that 



