LANDS TO BE TAKEN. 



Upon the map accompanying this report there is shown and 

 designated, in section colored green, the binds and territory along 

 the river which your Commission recommends as a river reserva- 

 tion. The determination of this area has been arrived at only after 

 the most careful consideration and personal investigation by all 

 of the Members of the Commission and its Engineer, taking coun- 

 sel with City and Department Officials and with representatives 

 of the various communities and property interests affected. 



Briefly, the reservation comprises a strip of land, varying in 

 width from 300 to 1,000 feet, approximately 15 miles in length, 

 and including approximately 125 acres in the city and about 900 

 acres in Westchester, including the river itself. This would be 

 equivalent to a continuous strip 540 feet in width. 



For the most part it is physically and logically defined. The 

 Harlem Railroad, following the level grade of the valley, occupies 

 the west slope, 10 to 20 feet above the stream, and with several 

 crossings forms practically a continuous boundary. 



The proposed new Bronx Boulevard forms an equally natural 

 boundary along the easterly slope from Bronx Park to Woodlawn ; 

 above Woodlawn to Searsdale, the so-called " New York Pipe 

 Line," or aqueduct right-of-way, again forms almost a continuous 

 boundary on the west. Thence to North White Plains, with the 

 railroad still on one side, the opposite boundary is taken along a 

 natural line at the top of the slope, for the most part through un- 

 divided lands. At the lower end of Kensico Lake the reservation 

 will join the new area and reservation being established by the 

 New York Board of Water Supply for the projected storage reser- 

 voir, occupying some 4,000 acres. At the same point it also con- 

 nects directly with the State Road extending from White Plains 

 northerly through the center of the county. 



In considering in detail the limits of the reservation, particu- 

 larly in the three miles through the city limits, the Commission 

 recommends that no property be taken except in the low river 

 hinds, and on the adjacent slope for one hundred feet only. As 

 above stated, the hinds are not occupied or adapted for wholesome 

 development, and it is found that the area thus physically defined 

 includes practically the entire zone of nuisance which it is desired 



