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sent to this Department. I have the matter under consideration, 

 and am investigating the cost and the possibility of securing 

 money to pay for the lights, as no appropriation has been made 

 for this purpose. 



The bicycle riders of the City, who are very numerous, early in 

 the year requested the Department to construct a bicycle road 

 from the Park to Coney Island, in accordance with a design 

 suggested several years previously. The Department did not 

 possess the requisite money to perform this work, but it was 

 agreed that the labor would be provided if the wheelmen sub- 

 scribed thirty-five hundred dollars with which to purchase the 

 blue stone needed to cover the surface of the road. This agree- 

 ment was made, and the road (which is the first one of the kind 

 built) has been constructed. It gives great satisfaction to the 

 people using wheels. 



The Eastern Parkway has been kept in a fairly satisfactory 

 condition, despite the fact that the money appropriated for its 

 maintenance was insufficient. The heavy traffic over this road- 

 way is very injurious to it. There should be some law passed to 

 prevent business vehicles using the main road of this pleasure 

 driveway. The Park Department was deprived of the power to 

 enforce police regulations on this road some years ago. It was 

 placed within the jurisdiction of the City Police Department ; so 

 that, while I have control of the road so far as maintenance is 

 concerned, I have no power to issue any ordinance regulating its 

 use, as was done in the case of the Ocean Parkway, which is 

 entirely under my control. 



Under a law passed several years a*go, I have laid out the line 

 of the extension of the Eastern Parkway, from its present 

 terminus at the old city line to the entrance to Eidgewood Park. 

 Considerable labor was involved in this, because it was necessary 

 to select a line that would escape thoroughfares blocked by 

 trolley and steam roads and also evade the unnecessary destruc- 

 tion of existing property. This Parkway, when completed, will 

 be one of the most attractive driveways in the City, and it will 



