New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-17
EXTENDING THE PARKWAY.
A NEW ROADWAY TO BE BUILT TO RIDGE
WOOD PARK.

CONTRACTS FOR TWO SECTIONS ABOUT TO BE
LET-MACADAM AND BRICK WILL BE LAID.
There is every prospect that the work OF ex'ehons
the Eastern Parkway to Ridgewood (or Highiano'
Park will be taken in hand this fall. and IN fac''
that good beginning on IL will be made before the
winter sets In. AS has been published In me IT'D
une the work will be let in three sections. but only
two OF them are ready 10 be put under contract
Immediately
These two sections the eastern and the west
ern, the western extending from the present TER
minus of the Parkway AZ Ralph-ave 10 ROCK
away-ave and the eastern extending from BUSH
wick-ave to the park adjoining the Ridsewoon
Reservoir The property needed for the middle
section extending from Rockaway-ave. 10 bush-
wck-ave has not all been acquired. and inns por-
ton Of the work will have TO be taken IN mana ater
For several days proposals have been adVer'seu
for by Park Commissioner Woodruff. ana the ous
will be opened Saturday. The entire width OF
the Parkway will be 10 feet. including two SIDE
walks each twenty feet wide. The roadway VIII
consist Of central section OF macadam. thirty Feet
wide and two side strips OF vitried brick. each
twenty feet in width. AZ least, this VIII oe the
case with the western ard middle sections oh 'he
eastern section there is a considerable grace All ''e
way. and the proposals for this part oil the "oiA
call for vitrifed brick pavement east OF bush"''A
ave
This brick pavement VIII III u sense W "
ton Of the brick pavement about TO be laiu ior d
sbo-, distance In Bushwick-ave. under contract
recently awarded for the Eastern PARKWAY eN'e"
sion will for few blocks coincide with that avenue
near the main entrance 10 the cemetery Vi '
Evergreens ,,
A feature OF the eastern section mat II Vi Sp
interest will be the steel vaduct by which the fark
way IS TO be carried over Nermont-st near nc
sou,beastern corner of the cemetery just mentioned
rust cast Of this point the new road VIII DE 81
ted that part Of il will pracucaiy co'"'
with Vermont extended anu 'a'i'u ~ ~
eastward for a short distance. Thus 'he No.
u no made easily accessible to the people Vi '''e
Twenty-sixth Ward who wish 10 reach 1t ny
~ tho two-wheeled or four-wheeed variety
To the eastward Of Nermont-st h""'o'
..,s ,r tho Twenty-sixth Ward run up the mn
90 far ~ the Parkway and there come 70 a" Gnu
4, aocr one Of these termini steps VIII De COa
structed 50 that the Parkway may
re Whnu rpmembercd that there are to be slHe
walks twenty feet wide on nee is easy to believe
sio, nr"menading on these walks VIII pe "a" Of
thar f1nrr for many visitors TO TINS par' Os
tra'tne e further east one goes the higher the
II ,io, and the broader the view comn'hi LINN
Sn1 b Rdgewood Park itself IS reaGne Dans 70
the south with Jamaica pay : m,' p'ch and the
ties in plain sight ana Ho'N"""'
Ultimately the Parkway extension 80 accomplish
o h, ~ wii no necessary TO make use Oh o"e u Wv
drives through CYPRESS HIS Gre whose bids
II = pio,tI for the eas and west sections v, s'
Extension lGO working days In T nt six months or
their work. mat iiir"IH l. ordinarily favor
able nearly half Of this time ought 10 De c6TId prob
s,Il and I'm that case the entlit "''N
ahy be- Completed early next June. ,rsss is tina:
The unsatisfactory feature Oh o"g Forest PARK the
Until the e rGsI viii lead nowhere in ParGTar r.
although Ridgewood PARK Is o,;id he Hrranged be-
visit II sonar Dark and the Genmoreave lmPrUV Of
ment II would be decided gam Ino;,oct7on rom the
po f where the extension leaves enG of thai
The brick pavement on the SOU lads directly 10
avenue and on PennsylNd"'"-"'''
and across Glenmore-aVe