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BRONX RIVER PARKWAY. 



We have ample demonstration of the value and success of simi- 

 lar reclamation of rivers and parkway development in the near-by 

 Fairmount and Wissahickon improvements at Philadelphia, and the 

 Fenways of Boston, the latter treating with almost precisely similar 

 conditions. 



The proposed sanitary reservation along the Bronx River is 

 peculiarly adapted for such development,, both as to its unusual 

 physical opportunities and from the fact that it will open up an 

 entirely new phase in the development of the city's park system; 

 providing a direct, level, and attractive boulevard to the city from 

 the open countryside ; and with the large Kensico Lake reservation 

 as an objective point, we have only to picture the completion and 

 extension of the Riverside Drive improvement along the Hudson 

 River, and the similar development of a line along the Sound, to 

 complete a very comprehensive outer park system for the city, with 

 the proposed Bronx Parkway as a central feature. 



The recently organized Palisade Commission is at the present 

 time engaged in the construction of a parkway, lying along the 

 w esterly bank of the Hudson River, on a similar scale, so that this 

 forecast is not too ambitious. 



In addition to the increase of the Park System of New York, 

 the advantage to local communities is doubly accentuated in the 

 fact that it will not be merely a community adjunct ; but following 

 along the railroad through the entire electric zone, immediately at 

 hand from every station, it may be pictured as a transformed life 

 artery, extending through the heart of these communities, and a 

 factor making for progress the value of which is difficult to 

 estimate. 



DEVELOPMENT. 



As to development, the best results will undoubtedly be obtained 

 in simplicity and naturalness of effect, preserving and utilizing to 

 best advantage the endless combinations of natural charm and 

 scenic possibilities in forests, rocky valleys, meadow land, and 

 water, in Avhich the Bronx Valley affords the utmost possibilities. 



In the river reservation it will also be noted that widened por- 



