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[From the "New York World," April 9, 18*70.] 



, The Eastern Parkway when completed, will be the 



finest street in the world. This is probably the grandest attempt ever 

 made by force of law to make a district of a city fashionable and ex- 

 clusive. The act forbids any property owner erecting anything but 

 a mansion on the Boulevards, or anything but stables and outbuild- 

 ings on the back streets. It is a bold and enterprising attempt on 

 the part of the property owners in the high lands of the Ward to 

 make that location prominently eligible for the residence of the 

 wealthy and the fastidious. Unlike most of the recent schemes for 

 local improvement, this one asks no aid from the city treasury, but 

 proposes to levy all the cost of the improvement upon the prop- 

 erty benefitted along the line of the proposed grand drive from the 

 Park to the city line. It is reported that already some of our most 

 eminent representative, professional, business men, capitalists, and 

 financiers have purchased choice lands for their permanent personal 

 residence. This is an important augui'y of the future character and 

 value of the real estate in that vicinity. 



[From the " Neiv York Herald," Jan. 24, 18*70.] 



In the course of an elaborate descriptive article, the Herald 

 said : 



ADVANTAGES TO BROOKLYN. 



Having fully described, in its principal aspects, the question of 

 the desirability of developing in Brooklyn a plan of public improve- 

 ment of the general character indicated, the Superintendents inquire 

 whether the broad streets which are proposed to be opened on New 

 York island under the name of Boulevards during the next few 

 years are calculated to interfere with the probable success of such a 

 scheme. In arriving at a negative answer they quote from a report 

 of the Park Commission regarding the limitations that are rec- 

 ognized in New York controlling the designs of the commission- 

 ers, and add that it is clear that there is no intention of carry- 

 ing out any such scheme, as the parkway in New York. Although 

 the plots of ground appropriated to the Brooklyn and Central Park 

 are entirely different in shape, while their landscape opportunities 

 and general possibilities of design are equally dissimilar, a generic 

 family resemblance will yet be found between the two pleasure 



