A WESTCHESTER COUNTY LANDSCAPE ALONG THE LINE OF THE PROPOSED BRONX-RIVER PARKWAY. 



NEW YORK'S PROPOSED BRONX-RIVER 



PARKWAY. 



VXT^HILE the suburban development to the more than a brook, and occupies a narrow val- 

 northward of New \ ork City has ley some fifteen miles long. After the Bronx 

 been disappointing, in the main, from an enters New York City on its northern bounds 

 aesthetic point of view, the situation is not it passes into what is known as Bronx Park, 

 altogether hopeless. The scenic features of an extensive reservation including the city's 

 Westchester county, long ago described by botanical and zoological gardens. The me- 

 Cooper and Irving, have not been wholly tropolis is therefore deeply interested in the 

 marred by the ruthless hand of " improve- sanitary purity of this stream, which, of 

 ment." Here and there a tract of woodland course, is determined by conditions at its 

 preserves its native beauties. The rugged head waters, 

 hills and ravines, although in 

 man}' instances denuded of 

 trees, still give an interesting 

 variety to the landscape. Oc- 

 casionally a sightly knoll or 

 slope has come into the posses- 

 sion of men who have had 

 enough consideration for na- 

 ture's prior rights to make 

 their improvements conform 

 as far as possible to the origi- 

 nal contour of the land. From 

 some of these elevations fine 

 views may be had of miles of 

 green and peaceful country- 

 side. 



Through the heart of this 

 region, about midway between 

 Long Island Sound and the 

 Hudson, and nearly parallel 

 to the latter, runs the Bronx course of the bronx through one of the Westchester 



River, a small stream, which towns. 



. r • • I-.. i (The unsightly and unsanitary features presented in this pic- 



in most Ot Its Course is. little tine will be removed by the creation of the parkway.) 



