New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-15
RED, BLUE, GREEN IND YELLOW.
FEATURES OF THE REVISED MAP SHOWING IN
PROVED PAYMENTS LAID AND IN
DER WAY IN BROOKLYN


new edition has recently been Issued OF the
Map Of the City of Brooklyn. Including the Town
of Flatlands Showing Improved Pavements Laid
and Unde Way. 1896" Some changes OF Importance
as compared with the first map are to be seen by
a brief examination. Granite pavements are indi-
Gated by blue lines, asphalt by red, Belgian pave
ments by green and macadam and gravel roads by
yellow.
One OK the noticeable changes between the new
edition and the old is found In the Twenty third
Ward. where on the first map only six streets were
marked out I'm red between Stuyvesant and Lewis
ayes, namely Madson-st.. Putnam-ave.. Jefferson
ave, Macon-st., Electromagnetic and Bainbrdge-st..
while the second quincy. Hancock and Decatur
cts. added. The longest stretch OF asphalt here
Is on Hancock-s which Is represented with this
pavement all the way from Nostrand to Ralph ave.
Five blocks viii need to be covered with asphalt
before the facts correspond with the map And them
alas there 10 blue line this street between Nos
trsnd and Bedford ayes! May II not long be allowed
to stay there The granite pavement on that block
IL comparatively new. to be sure. but with a smooth
roadway for nearly a mile and n half east Of Bed
ford-ave II " pity that the first block IS not
brought up 10 date.
on the older map Washington-ave. In blue from
beginning to end. but on the later one the blue
(grane) has given place 10 red between Park Place
and Flatbush-ave. Red In this case. however may
not asphalt for II s the desire OF CITY Works
Commissioner White 10 place a brick pavement on
that part OF this important avenue. which divides
the city by straight line running almost due north
and south
Outside OF Bedford-ave. there IL almost no asphalt
pavement in tho Eastern District Of the city. By
the map parts OF South Ninth-st Berry-st.. Ross
st.. Penn-st and a tiny bit OF Lee-ave. are shown
with the improved pavement. There IL also A.
little red spot at Bushwick- ave- and MauJer-st. The
Heights and the Park Slope show numerous red
lines. and stretching from the Heights to the Car
roll Park section is Henry-st. in red. with q cross
bar OF the same fer three blocks in First Place
The Twenty-sixth Ward EAST New York; has good
many green lines. denoting Belgian pavements with
Lberty-ave and part OF Atantic-ave. in blue
Only one short piece of red is to be found here;
1t Is on Barbey-st., between Jamaica and Atlantic
ayes.
Both maps err in showing the Coney Island Con-
for the part Of Ocean Parkway has suffered so
severely from the inroads, of, the ocean that the
asphalt pavement Is completely broken up and no
longer disable
TO stay-at-home Brooklynites one of the most in
teresting features OF the map must be the mac
adamized and gravel roads nearly all OF which lie
IL the Cd R ts%n OF Sss
parkway section Of Bed l and one or
macadamzed roads in the city, though Exception
must also be made In the case OF a few maeada-
built by the Of
Bay.
Thrty-second Ward is without a break. indicating
that light the subject OF good roads has pene-
trated that benighted region.
For some reason to the writer unknown, Ocean
Parkway Is represented extending along the
south side OF Prospect Park. The street there,
formerly called Frankln-ave.. and now marked
Fort Hamlton-ave. the lampposts, forms no part
OF the Parkway, and is common, unimproved
road, although delineated In yellow this map.
Secon Lave, Fourth-ave.. Fifth-aves Seventh-ave.
and Elghteenth-ave show long lines OF macsdam,
while Twenty-second-ave.. or Bay Parkway has d
break that greatly needs filling up. Sxteth-st..
Sixty-fifh-st. and Seventy-ninth-s. are mainly in
macadam, and so Is Cropsey-ave.. which Hes near
Gravesend Bay
Some Of the work in New-Utrecht is still in
progress and good many miles of Greater Brook
Ign will soon be accessible TO people who ride and
drive Indeed journey through this section OF
Brooklyn will be afreveaton to good many who
think they have a considerable acquaintance with
the city.