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street, was widened to 210 feet; the outside streets, President and 

 Douglass, were widened to 100 feet each ; the intervening streets, 

 Degraw and Union, were narrowed to 35 feet each. On the streets 

 which were widened, the buildings were required, when erected, to 

 stand at least 30 feet from the street, and on the narrow streets no 

 building is to be allowed, to be used for anything but a stable, 

 carriage-house, conservatory, or green-house. The effect of these 

 restrictions is evident. The lots will be sold, running through from 

 the wide streets to the narrow ones, and will be improved according 

 to their size and location. As a further inducement to this, all 

 business " dangerous, noxious, or offensive to the neighboring in- 

 habitants," are prohibited by law, " on any land affected by said 

 widenings." 



The region included between these streets is very finely situated. 

 It lies high above the rest of the city, can be readily and perfectly 

 drained, can also be supplied with a good head of public water, and 

 commands, at almost every point, extended views. It only remained 

 to determine the attractiveness of the streets themselves. This has 

 been done by the plan adopted for them. Through the centre of 

 the main street, which is called the " Eastern Parkway," runs a mac- 

 adamized road. On either side of this is to be aliberal space plant- 

 ed with trees. Beyond these again come pavements of Belgian 

 block, and then wide walks, with trees at the inner and outer edges. 

 The side streets are to be paved with stone, (block,) with broad 

 walks, fringed with trees on each side. 



The work is now going on. Its progress cannot be seen from 

 the Park entrance, though an excavation going on at the left of the 

 entrance marks the terminus of the Parkway at that point. But, 

 from East New York avenue both ways, rapid progress is being made, 

 steam machinery of a very ingenious and effective sort being em- 

 ployed. Any of our Brooklyn readers can reach this point from 

 Atlantic avenue, and a visit will amply repay them. This is one of 

 a series of public works, which have been carried forward in Brook- 

 lyn under great difficulties, and at heavy expense, but which are 

 already having a marked influence on the growth and prosperity of 

 the city. When a steam underground railway is added, as we 

 believe it will be ultimately, the extension of the population of the 

 city, until it equals that of New York at present, is only a question 

 of time, and of no very long time at that. 



