The enterprise of our neighbors lias also placed another 

 fine improvement in the hands of the Park Commissioners ; 

 which consists in the widening of the Coney Island road 

 to the width of one hundred feet ; thereby opening up a 

 direct avenue to the sea, and at the same time throwing 

 open to the public another opportunity of selecting sites 

 for suburban residence unequaled for beauty of situation, 

 for salubrity of air, and for convenient access to business 

 centers by any locality on the Island. 



By means of these and of other kindred improvements 

 connected with Park extension, in which the Board have 

 been engaged, land throughout the County of Kings has 

 greatly increased in value, the taxable property in the 

 rural districts having been nearly doubled during the last 

 four years. While we rejoice with our friends in the coun- 

 try towns that they are the fortunate possessors of such 

 valuable property, we heartily congratulate our citizens at 

 large upon the splendid opportunities of improvement which 

 are about to be thrown open to them. It is thus, in con- 

 nection with those magnificent enterprises of bridging and 

 of tunneling the East River, which have already engaged 

 the attention of the Common Council, that the Board expect 

 to realize those broad plans of public improvement which 

 they have from time to time suggested by their annual re- 

 ports and otherwise, as opportunity presented : and it is 

 thus that they hope to establish for Brooklyn that reputa- 

 tion which she justly merits, of a highly favored quarter of 

 the great metropolis of this Western world, possessing su- 

 perior natural advantages in many respects over her more 

 wealthy neighbor, but particularly as a healthful and desir- 

 able place of residence for her men of business. 



The success of our Park enterprise, now so generally ad- 

 mitted, is believed to have contributed largely to the pro- 



