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Boulevards " region is the simple fact that the majority 

 of the largest owners are among the most eminent, liberal, 

 and wealthy of the business men and residents of New 

 York and Brooklyn, aud that most of them reserve 

 choice sections whereon to build and dwell perma- 

 nently. 



A TRIP TO THE PARKWAY. 



A trip to the "East Parkway and Boulevards" 

 region is worthy of the brief time required. In no 

 other way can the reader obtain such a complete and 

 satisfactory knowledge of the subject. Three hours' 

 time will afford an ample opportunity for viewing the 

 whole ground. From the Fulton Ferry house, in Brook- 

 lyn, the Fulton street, Atlantic street, and Flatbush 

 avenue cars respectively start at intervals of a few mo- 

 ments daily. The two former connect with the cross- 

 town routes — the Franklin avenue and the Nostrand 

 avenue cars — both of which can be taken successively, 

 and afterwards the Flatbush avenue cars to the Park. 

 This will reveal the entire scope of territory to the vis- 

 itor, who can then " best judge for himself." 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



The Eastern Parkway and Boulevards have attracted 

 the earnest attention of the press, from the inception of 

 the schenje. Not only the local newspapers, which 

 naturally should be, and always are, promptly interested 

 in all proper local improvements, — but the great New 

 York dailies, and other prominent journals in various 

 places in the country, have expressed the most exalted 

 opinion of them. The "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" one 

 of the largest, ablest, and, perhaps with one exception, 



