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Taking into consideration the geographical and topographi- 

 cal features of the Borough and the distribution of population in 

 the Borough and the close proximity of the large population in 

 Lower Manhattan, a plan has been conceived for the establish- 

 ment of what we beg to term five different sections, forming and 

 completing an harmonious general system of parks. 



PIBST. 



THE SOUTH SHORE SYSTEM. 



This system should commence at Clifton, with access to it 

 by means of an extension of the present South Side Boulevard, 

 from its Northern terminus at Parkinson avenue by way of the 

 below-described Grassmere Park to a point at or near Pennsyl- 

 vania avenue, and embracing "Grassmere Lake Park" of 55 

 acres; "South Beach Park" of 420 acres, extending from the 

 fortifications at Fort Wads worth to Midland Beach ; " New 

 Dorp Beach Park" of 125 acres, extending from the St. John's 

 Guild property South to the beginning of Crook's Point ; the 

 "Great Kills Park" of about 80 acres, facing on Great Kills ; the 

 " Giffords Park" of 22 acres, embracing a part of the so-called 

 Wiman property, and extending by a parkway from near the 

 station at Giffords to the Park site, extending from the Boulevard 

 to the East Shore; the "Woods of Arden Park" of 90 acres ; 

 the "Prince's Bay Park " (embracing the State Quarantine prop- 

 erty) 35 acres, and the " Tottenville or Christopher Billop Park " 

 of 30 acres (including the historic Billop House and the Bay Cliff 

 Park property), at the Southern terminus of the Amboy road. 

 All of the above mentioned parks, constituting the South Shore 

 Park System, and to be connected with each other by means of 

 the South Side Boulevard, which terminates near the Woods of 

 Arden at the present time, but an extension of which through the 

 Fifth Ward from the Woods of Arden to Tottenville, is hereby 

 recommended. 



szEccasriLD. 



HIGHLAND OR OCEAN VIEW SYSTEM. 



This system is to follow in a general line the chain of hills 

 commencing with Pavilion Hill at Tompkinsville, near the 



