New-York tribune., 1902-07-20
TIE BRONX CONCOURSE.
WORK SOON TO BEGIN ON THIS GREAT
LINK IN PARK AND PARKWAY
SYSTEM OF THE CITY.

wavor Low, it is expected will sign the resolu-
+ion appropriating 900 for the Grand Boule
ward and Concourse. in The Bronx. Tomorrow. and
unless the unforeseen happens the work Will De
tegun before the end of the summer. There have
been talk and speculation, resolutions and injunc-
lions relative to the concourse for the last
wears and until the reform administration came
into power ii looked if the great roadway would
remain a string of vacant lots and dump heaps.
But with the signature of Seth Low attached to
the resolution which passed by the Board of
Aldermen last Tuesday the long delay appears at
an end.
Few realize without study Of the park sys-
tens Of Manhattan and The Bronx what the con-
struction of the cOncOurse viii mean in the de-
velopment OF the broad reaches of land north of
the Harlem River At the present time there are
in The Bronx about four thousand acres of park
land in which are to be found beauties of nature
of almost endless variety. There is, for example
the native forest of Van Cortlandt and The Bronx
parks, and the shore and Sound scenery of Pelham
Bay Park. But between these vast pleasure
grounds and the Harlem River there are many
miles of territory and the intervening streets are
not laid out with view to Offering approach.
The purpose Of the concourse is 10 solve this
problem. and TO unite the parks of The Bronx
with the great pleasure ground of Manhattan
Central Park. Accordingly, II will be the great
connecting link in the parkway system.
The scale which the concourse is to be laid
out is in @ keeping IN w With hi its importance as park.
trees. and separate roadways for various sorts of
e on then fns outer rove @e viii be deWaks b for
are be broad roadways for carriages bordered
the inside with handsome street lamps. Be
WI he bic1cie nafhe sn6 IL fbe nentre is 70 he
speedway for trotTers and PAGERS.
The concourse VIII be little over four miles
fSt y WIZ o Hg ,6n 9RPOaSb 5S
viii be three hundred feet in length, and will
eventually be ornamented with archways and
course win debopch III into fi5' the MoshoH PaTkwsy
which, being the connecting link between Van
-OFrla Srk n rha nrTh nd ne
Pelham Bay parks the east, will thus offer an
approach to these great pleasure grounds. Much
ground, and II VIII the principal nteTsectlng
streets by means of handsome archways and par
apets
with the completion OF the concourse. it Will be
possible for horsenan. an automobilist or ocySS
clist start from the SevenIy-second-st. gate or
Central Park for forty-nlie ride through series
OF parks and parkways which in the aggregate
amount TO nearly six thousand acres, an area over
seven times the size Of Central Park. Ihus, the
the Seventh-ave- entrance. north along Seventh,
ave. to the Macomb's Dam Bridge. then over a
raised roadway 10 the concourse along tnls 70
Park and Pelham Bay Park TO City Island, then
returning westward TO the Mosholu Parkway,
north TO Van Cortlandt Park. then westward over
the proposed Spuyten Duyvl Parkway, TO the pro-
posed Spuyten DuyYil bridge southwark 10 the
Lafayette Boulevard and return 70 central Fark oy
way OF Riverside Drive and West seVenty-sec-
President Haffen OF the Borough Of The Bronx.
who has long been urging the CONSTRUCTION o. the the
concourse says that the CONTRACT Tor reguiattms
and grading the thoroughfare will be let without
delay and the work will be completed within four
years It Is expected that the ultimate cost OF lns
streets. lamps and other ornamentatton VIII be
s. OOO,0 more The land, which was bouSht some
total Is likely TO amount from S10Ooo0oo to A5.-
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