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impose, ample facilities were afforded without serious inter- 

 ference with the privileges of others. The use of the Eastern 

 Parkway, the Ocean Parkway and the Concourse at Coney 

 Island, lias been permitted without limitation and with no 

 apparent conflict with the comfort or safety of drivers. The 

 principal riders are expert in the management of their machines 

 and conform to the rules which have been in part made up 

 from their own experience. So long as these rules are intelli- 

 gently complied with I see no reason to modify the provisions 

 for using the Park for those seeking recreation in this manner. 



As to the unfinished portions of the Park, to which refer- 

 ence is frequently made, comprising more particularly the 

 considerable unimproved area along the westerly boundary of 

 the Park lying along the extreme limits of the Twenty-second 

 and contiguous to the Eighth Ward of this city, it ma}' be said 

 that suggestions favoring the renewal of construction work is 

 entitled to the careful attention of the Commissioners. The 

 tendency of improvement in the earlier years of construction 

 carried the work through the main body of the area, its prin- 

 cipal features following the trend of travel towards the southerly 

 entrance. Our means, which had been provided by law for con- 

 struction purposes, were exhausted ten years ago, since which 

 time the area just referred to along Ninth avenue and Fifteenth 

 street has remained in a slate of incompletion. This, at the 

 time of the cessation of the work, attracted no especial atten- 

 tion or criticism in view of the generally unimproved state of 

 that portion of the two Wards alluded to, bordering upon and 

 adjacent to the Park. Since then, however, the property of the 

 neighborhood has recovered to a substantial degree from the 

 effects of the general financial depression which prevailed in 

 1ST:!, the transfers of property at improved prices, which afford 

 every promise of stability, and the erection of numerous build- 

 ings throughout the district, indicate the early attainment of 

 a high class reputation for the whole western slope of the 

 Park. 



The conformation of the area from Flatbush avenue to 

 Fifteenth street, and even beyond, and extending nearly to the 



