REPORT OF THE 



REPOET 



COMMITTEE ON THE EAST SIDE LANDS. 



At a regular meeting of tlie Board of Park Commissioners 

 held December 18, 1888, it was voted " that a committee of 

 three, consisting of Commissioners Storrs, Woodward and 

 Somers, be appointed to consider the question what is best to 

 be done with the East Side Lands now owned by the city, and 

 to report to the full Board." 



In fulfillment of the duty thus assigned to them, the under- 

 signed have given careful and patient attention to the 

 important matter placed in their hands, have personally 

 examined the lands referred to, and beg leave now respectfully 

 to submit the following Report : 



It will not be questioned by any one who has watched the 

 recent courses of public thought in Brooklyn that a strong, 

 just, and growing desire exists here for as great an enlargement 

 as can be secured, through any reasonable expenditure, of our 

 present extremely limited Park-area. This is perfectly 

 natural, indeed is inevitable, in connection with the expansion 

 of the city, the rapid and vast increase of its population, and 

 the remarkable prosperity, public and private, which of late 

 years it has enjoyed. A population rapidly approaching a 

 million in number, and destined apparently to multiply yet 

 more rapidly hereafter — a population including, also, an unu- 

 sual proportion of intelligent, prosperous, and home-loving 

 households — can not, in the nature of things, be content with 

 the public pleasure-grounds which were felt to be hardly ade- 



