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monumental designs on the right and left of the principal entrance to the 

 Park. If one of these sites should be selected for the proposed statue of 

 President Lincoln, it is hoped that the other would be reserved for a statue 

 t,o "Washington. 



In the preliminary study, a small portion of ground attached to the reser- 

 voir site, on the east, side of Flatbush avenue, was proposed to be improved, 

 and a foot bridge was planned to connect the reservoir with the main Park. 

 'This portion of the design, in accordance with our instructions, has not been 

 included in any operations that have been commenced, but we have taken 

 the opportunity to give further study to the subject; and the modified plan, 

 sometime since submitted for your consideration, and now appended to this 

 report, embodies the latest suggestions that we have to offer in regard to 

 this district. It proposes that the area to be improved shall be somewhat 

 extended so as to make provision for an agreeable promenade to be entered 

 directly from "Washington avenue, the position of the proposed foot bridge 

 being changed, so that it now takes a prominent place in the arrangement of 

 the new approach. 



In our preliminary study we proposed that Vanderbilt avenue should be 

 widened to 100 feet, so far as the property of the Commissioners extended, 

 the object being to improve, as far as possible, the approach from the city in 

 this direction. It will be seen, however, by reference to the map of Brook- 

 lyn, that within a few blocks of the Park an awkward crook occurs in Van- 

 derbilt avenue, and that the avoidance of this, by an extension in a straight 

 line to Clinton avenue, would be very expensive. As moreover, horse rail- 

 roads will probably be laid, sooner or later, on both Vanderbilt and Ninth 

 avenues, neither of these thoroughfares will, when the city is built up, be 

 entirely desirable routes for a large concourse of pleasure vehicles. 



Taking all these circumstances into consideration, we have been desi- 

 rous to lay before you some suggestion for an improvement in this portion 

 of the general design that would be acceptable in its character, and not too 

 costly for practical application. 



Clinton avenue, which is eighty feet wide, would undoubtedly form a 

 very agreeable approach to the Park. It is at present entirely blocked up 

 at its point of intersection with Atlantic avenue, but an examination of the 

 intervening district shows that it might, by judicious arrangement, be 

 extended in a nearly direct line to the Warren street boundarv of the Park 

 property, without passing through any ground now occupied by valuable 

 buildings. 



We have, therefore, made a fresh study, which we herewith lay before 

 you, of an arrangement of street lines within the district now under your 



