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reserve for park purposes certain points along the shore oi the* 

 Ray and the Kill van Kull, which command attractive views of 

 the I [arbor and the Kills. 



The parks in this system are to embrace the Clifton Park in 

 front of the Marine Hospital, and extending from Bay street to 

 the tracks below ; also the New Brighton Park, extending from 

 the intersection of Stuyvesant Place and the Richmond Terrace 

 to Westervelt avenue from Richmond Terrace to the railroad 

 tracks below ; also the Snug Harbor Park, embracing the meadow 

 and dyke formed by the bend of the Richmond Terrace, between 

 the Snug Harbor boat-house and the Livingston station ; this 

 park being particularly available for a public recreation pier and 

 landing for boats and pleasure craft, and possibly for bathing ; 

 and finally the Arlington Park of 23 acres, embracing a beach 

 front particularly well adapted for bathing, and for a recreation 

 pier, pleasure boat landing, etc. 



This completes the system of parks. 



PARKWAYS. 



Now as regards Parkways, your Committee is of the opinion 

 that they should be fashioned wherever possible after Common- 

 wealth avenue in Boston, being 150 feet in width ami having a 

 space devoted to trolleys in the centre of 40 feet, with a row of 

 trees on each side of this, roadways on each end of these each 

 40 feet wide, with a row of trees between them and the side- 

 walk, which is to be 15 feet wide. 



These Parkways in a general way are to connect the differ- 

 ent park sites, with a view of forming an harmonious system. 



One of the principal ones should be a parkway running 

 from North to South through the centre of the Island, from the 

 Kill van Kull to the Lower Bay, fashioned, as just stated, after 

 Commonwealth avenue in Boston, and more particularly de- 

 scribed as follows : 



Beginning at Richmond Terrace, near where Palmer's Run 

 enters into the Kill van Kull, and comprising all the land be- 

 tween Jewett avenue and the land of Alfred DeGroot, and thence 

 running Southerly along Palmer's Run at an equal width from 

 Jewett avenue to Post avenue ; thence Southerly across Palmer's 

 Run to the line of the German Church, from thence along the 

 line of Palmer's Run, at a width of 150 feet to Barrett avenue ; 

 thence in a Southwesterly direction across Barrett avenue to 

 Cherry Lane, near Marianne street ; thence still in the width of 

 150 feet across Palmer's Run to Watchogue road; thence 

 southerly still in the same width to Richmond Turnpike ; thence 

 still southerly to the road called the New Road going to Noble's 

 Corner: thence along said New Road to Rockland avenue, at 



