River Bridge, at Astoria or Ravenswood, and thus af- 

 ford a direct drive between the Central Park in New 

 York, and the Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Provision 

 is also made for other boulevard branches, at certain 

 intervals, leading to the more remote country towns on 

 Long Island, and to the seaside at Coney Island, Can- 

 arsie, Rockaway, and Jamaica. 



This Parkway is really an enlargement of Sackett 

 street from its former dimensions, — of seventy feet, — to 

 a uniform width of two hundred and ten feet, with 

 court-yards between the street front lines and the build- 

 ing .foundations, of thirty feet on each side. Thus a 

 grand total space of two hundred and seventy feet ! 

 is preserved from building front, to building front, 

 across the street. [The specific distances, etc., are 

 enumerated in the legislative special acts, contained in 

 another portion of this pamphlet.] 



THE CHARMS OF THE PARKWAY. 



The Parkway will consist of three separate and 

 distinct roads, and four walks, all luxuriantly shaded 

 by choice trees, of the American elm, the sugar maple, 

 the Norway maple, the European linden, and the tulip, 

 to be planted in rows at intervals of twenty feet along 

 the curbs. By law the courtyards can only be used to 

 display shrubbery, flowers, fountains, or statues. The 

 central roadway will be gravelled and rolled, as is the 

 case in the Park. It is to be fifty-five feet wide, and' 

 devoted exclusively to pleasure driving. On each side 

 will be a walk twenty feet wide, which will be curbed, 

 sodded, and flagged, and along which are to be double 

 rows of shade trees of the varieties before named. On 

 either side of this central roadway are narrower roads, 



