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the most extensively circulated evening newspaper in 

 the United States, says, in its issue of March 30, 1870, 

 in the course of a long and elaborate descriptive article ; 

 " These lines of Boulevards will in time afford the finest 

 drives for the equipages that Prospect Park will attract, 

 and will go far towards making the suburbs of Brooklyn 

 the most attractive resort in the country. With the 

 completion of these attractions, no city in the world can 

 compare in driving facilities with Brooklyn. Wealthy 

 residents pay a large share of the taxes, and the more 

 they pay, the less will be taken from those who live by 

 daily labor. By these driving facilities, wealthy per- 

 sons will be attracted to Brooklyn, and there is room 

 enough for the class that toil, and for those who neither 

 ' labor nor spin.' Those persons who are disposed to 

 think that the park, situated westwardly of Flatbush 

 avenue, will not be large enough for the requirements 

 of Brooklyn in the future should bear in mind that this 

 Parkway and Boulevards will rival the park itself in 

 attractiveness." 



[From the " Brooklyn Daily Union," March 30, 1870.] 



The Eastern Parkway (an enlargement of Sackett street), from 

 the east side of Prospect Park, runs along the main and high ridge 

 of ground, or the table land which forms the backbone of the island; 

 and from it, or the cupolas of the mansions that will be built there, 

 can be seen the view of the slope toward the ocean on the east, and 

 the cities of Brooklyn and New York and vicinity on the west. 

 There is probably no more salubrious site in the United States, it 

 having ths advantage of sea breeze, drainage, and also a good press- 

 ure of water from the reservoir adjacent. The proposition is to 

 extend this widening of Sackett street from the park to the city 

 limit, being a distance of two miles and a half, so that drives will be 

 taken from the park through the Boulevard as a part of the park 

 pleasures. 



