many of the small ones, are linked into a unit by a splendid system of 

 parkways. 



Beginning at the easterly extension of McComb's Dam Park and the 

 northerly end of Franz Sigel Park, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse 

 leads northward in an unbroken course to the Mosholu Parkway. Tech- 

 nically, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse it not a parkway as it is not 

 under the jurisdiction of the Park Department; but for all practical pur- 

 poses, this imposing avenue, with its breadth of 200 feet, and its four 

 rows of trees, is a link in the park system of the Bronx. As it runs 

 northward, the Grand Boulevard and Concourse passes Claremont Park, 

 three blocks to the eastward, Echo Park two blocks to the eastward, St. 

 James Park one block to the westward, and skirts the west boundary 

 of Poe Park. 



Mosholu Parkway links Van Cortlandt Park with Bronx Park, and 

 has a total length of 6,035 feet and an average width of 600 feet. 



Crotona Parkway links Bronx Park and Crotona Park, and has a 

 length of 3,815 feet and an average width of 120 feet. 



Bronx and Pelham Parkway links Bronx Park and Pelham Bay 

 Park, and has a length of 11,861 feet and an average width of 400 feet. 



Spuyten Duyvil Parkway has a length of 11,500 feet and a width 

 that varies from 60 to 180 feet. It runs from the southwest boundary 

 of Van Cortlandt Park to, approximately, the point where the Harlem 

 River unites with the Hudson. 



In a bird's-eye view of the Bronx Park system and its general unity, 

 the Bronx Parkway cannot be overlooked. Officially, it is not a part of 

 the park system of the Bronx, as it is under the jurisdiction of the Bronx 

 Parkway Commission. It is a strip of land, being developed as a park- 

 bordered boulevard, that begins at the northerly boundary of Bronx Park 

 and runs thence northerly through the beautiful valley of the Bronx 

 River to the 4,500-acre New Kensico Lake Reservation in Westchester 

 County. 



Cash Value. In a report made by the Comptroller of the City of 

 New York, up to and including the year 1890, the cost of the parks in the 

 Borough of The Bronx was estimated at $9,969,603.04. To this should 

 be added, in order to bring the cost up to date, $5,012,987.15, making a 

 total of $14,982,581.19. Under date of August 26, 1911, the City Record 

 published a report of the Department of Taxes and Assessments, placing 

 a value on the same property of $56,627,000.00, or a gain in the assessable 

 value, over the original cost, of $41,645,000.00. The actual value of the 

 property to-day has been estimated at from $75,000,000.00 to $90,- 

 000,000.00, or a gain in actual value, over the original cost, of from 

 $60,000,000.00 to $75,000,000.00. 



