Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-15
Brooklynites Do Know
Their Way About Town
To the Editor OF Tho Star:

The amusing story, quoted In your
editorial Of March 4 entitled The
Great Maze" about a new Or green
motOrman losing his way on night
trip through Brooklyn with trolley car
q nd pa ssengers, can hardly be used TO.
support your contention that very few
BrOOklynites know their way around
their own town.
Because 40 little Is known about
them. Brooklyn and Hoboken have
| been favorites with the vaudeville cir
cult and humorous writer's for putting
theater and newspaper audiences OF
other communities in a plea 80 mt frame
OF mind
That BrOOklynites do know their
way about their home town would
be cOnvincingly demonstrated to any
visitor to Prospect Park, BrOOklyn's
largest playground cOnta lining some
500 acres and lOca ted in the geOgra PHI
ical center Of the borough.
During the skating season young
sters living within 3 miles or more OF
| the park experience no trouble In find-
| ing their way to its ice.cOvered lakes
within record time. In the good old
Summer time 1t would seem that all
brooklyn has ma ma ed to assemble OF
q Saturday or Sunday afternoon to
listen to the splendid band concerts
| given in the vast tree-shaded amphi-
theater located i'm the park.
And what Brooklynite. though Iiv.
| ing in the remotest corner Of the big
| borough, would not know instinctively
how to reach Brighton or Ma nhattan
| beaches by several routes, II it were a
Summers day with sea md sand and
| Coney's muititudinous attractions
beckoning?
| Brooklyn has system Of arterial
| highways and parkways that affords
easy access to Manhattan. Long
! nd's famous resorts, the city
, beaches. frospec. Park and other
| principal points and attractions. The
| park IL the hub of the system, for
from it's drives radiate Flatbush ave
nue and Bedford avenue. broad
| thorouehfares running in straight
line to the Brooklyn termini Of the
| Manhattan and the VILLA msburgh
bridges and affOrding direct routes TO
Manhattan: Eastern parkway. furnish
| ing direct conyectiOn with Long
Islands principal highways: Ocea n
| parkway. a smile COncOurse terminal.
| ing at the breakwater overlooking the
Atlantic AT COney Isla and: Ocean ave
nue.. suburban boulevard running
| straight through Fiatbush to Sleeps
head Bay: Fort Hamilton parkway
linking with the Shore drive which
| skirts the ridge overlooking the Mar
| rows of New York Fay and from
| which NAV he seen New YOrk's pic
| turesQue sky line. Statue of Liberty
Fort Wadsworth on Staten isla nd a nd
SANDY Hook at JERSEYS northern tip.
embracing marine views that We'll re
| pay visit. for here may he had close.
ups OF great transa tlantic liners an
chOfed AT quarantine or strings OF
them ma iestically outward bound.
Both Eastern parkway and Oces n
pa rkwaE are thoroughfares OF greater
width than Pennsylvania avenue.
Washington. each being divided into
three tree-lined highways separated
by ornamental rarkings suggesting
the plan of Paris famous Champ
EIySee or Roosevelt boulevard Phila
delphia
! Brooklyn has labeled every street
corner in the borough with the names
of the intersecting streets in ma n.
ner that he who walks or drives ma V
read. something that cannot be said
OF every city. The trolley cars and
the elevated and subway trains dis
play maps OF the transportation sys.
tenn enabling one to chart his course
or determine his position. Conductors
and guards are as we'll posted as to
how to get from point to point as
| are trafnmen in other cities. Pocket
ps may be purcha sed at newsstands
at elevated and subway stations.
Modern transportation has done
much to make all parts of Brooklyn
easy Of access. In the old days it was
necessary to take a car to the ferry or
bridge. cross the Fast River on an.
| other conveyance and then take an.
| other street car to ones destination in
Manhattan. Such a journey costs IL
cents one way. or &c cents the round
trip. Today one may travel from
almost any point i'm Brooklyn to any
point in Manhattan or the Bronx for
a scent fare without change Of cars
the round trip costing Is cents less
and requiring far less time than for.
merly.
Brooklyn il only part of the great
maze. for it is but one of the four big
boroughs of Greater New York
through which one may be whisked
on mile.a minute subway expresses
with no other landmarks than cleo.
trically Illuminated street names pla
determine whether he is in Manhat
tan Brooklyn. Queens or the Bronx
A BrOoklynite. like any other New
Yorker. must possess a vocabulary OF
'street names that rivals the number of
geogra phical names railway mail
clerk must master To prove efficient.
LEWIS l.. YOUNG.