New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-09
AFFAIRS IN BROOKLYN.
PARKS FOR THE CITY.
MAYOR sCHrERENs COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS
TIP PURCHASE OF ABOUT 1000 ACRES AT
- rc-rnMArEn COST OF S26o0OOO.

PAINS FUN me- vi
MAYOR scHIEREN's COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS
THE PURCHASE OF ABOUT 1000 ACRES Al
Az ESTIMATED COST OF s2.6ooooo
-. committee appointed by Mayor Schieren to
,rs sites for new parks PRESENTED its report yes
,e,dav 70 Park Commissioner Squier. who made II
nubY. The members of the committee say in part
.ba, they took into consideration the report MADE
nv Messrs Olmstead. Olmstead Eliot. the consult
ing landscape architects who had examined each
o, ,be offerings and made special report upon
-heir adaptabihty They quote from the report oi
the Landscape architects as follows:
o, park lands should be secured in proportl92n 10
puson han is no" OF Ss Park De-
nartment gives the OF park lands under rs
f n 1873 is estimated by the State Board of Health as
iSoS@ This gives ratio OF ~. ~ nns COUNTY
vim an estimated population OF L0NlV snouIa
have 1852 of park land There are at prs
IA acres Ii is obvious therefore. that aDout 80
of park land ought to be secured al pa
land as New-York County.
After reviewing the suggestions made by tho iahd-
scape architects the committee advises 'he aoqu''
ing OF the following sites without delay:
Between five hundred and seven hundred acres eSn E
land along the ridge OF hills between cypress HIS
Cemetery and Richmond, HI: =, Raw Ridge.
the Dyker meadow property adjoining the GOV
eminent property at Fort Hamilton, ero bsacb
y tract OF lana a. IeilsOIiH"i'N "' -
ard waterfront. . 49, ,,ro NJ COY,
niece OF woodland contiguous TO the me VI So w.
eral railroads suitable for picnic purposes III ~
10 relieve Prospect Park. when is iiot
SON and which by overcrowding has Deen ser1ous,g
damaged. Two parcels near the Inc u ON"
Parkway are suggested 49,, Aoro 90 Jamaica
Bay at Canars,e A., -,
For smaller parks the committee suggests the 1oi-
lowing: ,,.. o,.o ora
north OF the New Lots rodu' III INV
d. % n,oi Of ground near thu junction OF Pennsyi-
vanta-ave and New Lots Road . t,o,so,.-s. and
MOT in the neighborhood OF haiseE-s| anu
niece of land bounded by Maspeth-aVe.' oha'oh-
G, Olive-st. and MOrgan-aVe 49,, , ,,,r,, q,
small piece of land ADJOINING tle SOie Pni n o,,
tho iunctton OF Metropolitan and orient h'es' "o"
Tbe nurcbase Of three four blocks at me Juno
+ioD ~ Eastern Parkway and East NeW-1 OF h-dVe.'
at which point several proposed ~, ~ aisav
4 mock of ground in the ne1gnbornpou OF iieiHc'
G., nicke,,bc,c ker-ave., Covert and Hancock StS.
small gore at the junction OF Na"doou'-S'' "'iu
Bedford ave
In ending the committee says:
we ara unanimously OF the opinion that u the
lands mentioned secured the count! va n
vii obtain number Of pleasure-Srounds anu
hrsathing spots for the people that VIII De appie
ciarei not only by the present Gehedoo!i; DI1 ~
bv the generations 10 come. ana thd' tne oo",.,!
uiiu no COMPENSATED a thousandfod Tor the en-
pendture made. 49,. oho,,, ooo acre,
Of land be secured which. in our OPINION Will Co''
about s26C0.~" . 49,, ?, =,
Tho report is signed by Andrew D. BARD H. -
sobarmann Whitman ". Kenyon Theodore Dieler'
John B. Woodward. J. b. Erregger ana waiter H.
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