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successful in either city. The majority of property owners 

 along the route of the proposed improvement are willing to 

 be assessed for the entire amount of centre roadway, upon 

 the City bearing a fair portion of not less than fifty per 

 cent., of the assessment for widening and making the side 

 drives, as the said drives would become popular public 

 roadways for pleasure driving. The ten feet proposed to be 

 taken for widening the drives is a portion of thirty feet 

 which by Act of Legislature, comprises the court yards on 

 either sides ; leaving a court yard of twenty feet still 

 remaining, and which is more than is really necessary when 

 the proposed improvements are completed. This will add 

 materially to the taxable property of the City, and bring 

 into market for permanent improvements a large section of 

 the City which seems to have been paralyzed by the original 

 assessment and has not yet received from its effects. All 

 the expense to be borne by the City will not exceed the 

 amount required to make and maintain the present 

 neglected drive. 



In addition to the proposed improvement of the present 

 Parkway, it is proposed to extend the present Parkway in 

 an avenue of about one hundred and twenty feet wide, 

 upon and across such streets and lands as may be found 

 best adapted for the purpose through the Twenty-sixth 

 Ward, or partly along the high ground adjoining the City 

 Line, and which will form a connection with the proposed 

 new Park site at Eigewood, in which his Honor, Mayor 

 Chapin, has taken a deep interest. A bill has been pre- 

 pared and presented to the present Legislature to secure 

 the same. 



The Boulevard, when finished, and connected with the 

 Ridge wood Park, will form a drive and Parkway from 

 Ridgewood through Prospect Park over the present Ocean 

 Boulevard to the Kings County Concourse at the Ocean, a 

 distance of over fifteen miles in length : also providing, in 

 the future, for a continuation of the Boulevard to the pro- 

 posed new Bridge over the East River, whereby Central 



