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Identifier: developmentprese00newyrich (find matches)
Title: Development and present status of city planning in New York City
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: New York (N.Y.). Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Committee on the City Plan McAneny, George, 1869-1953 Whitten, Robert Harvey, 1873-1936 Lewis, Nelson Peter, 1856-1924 Pratt, Frederic B. (Frederic Bayley), b. 1865 Goodrich, Ernest Payson, 1874- Turner, Daniel Lawrence, 1869-1942 Ford, George B. (George Burdett), 1879-1930
Subjects: Art, Municipal -- New York (State) New York Railroad stations -- New York (State) New York Public works -- New York (State) New York Local transit -- New York (State) New York Harbors -- New York (State) New York
Publisher: New York, Board of Estimate and Apportionment. Committee on the City Plan
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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partof the system. Such streets are: Fourth Avenue, running from the Long Island dejDot to Fort Hamil-ton,Fort Hamilton Parkway, from Prospect Park to the Narrows,Ocean Parkway, from Prospect Park to Conej Island,Eastern Parkway, from Prospect Park to East New York,Flushing Avenue, from the Brooklyn Bridge to Queens,Myrtle Avenue, from the City Hall to Jamaica, Bushwick Avenue, paralleling Broadway for three-quarters of itslength. It will be noticed, however, that there is no equally imjiortant thor-oughfare connecting these diverging streets. A study revealed the exis-tence of the Kings Highway, a country road still used for three-quarters Plate V—GENERAL MAP SHOWING CHANGESIN STREET SYSTEM RECOM-MENDED BY E. H. BENNETT.ARCHITECT FOR THE BROOKLYNCOMMITTEE ON CITY PLAN II HI iNi\: 35111 S Hsn S § 5 2 2 5 ■ r, 2 2 5 _^ _ ^ 2 c 5 5 o 75
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WDliK OK llltOOKI.VN fOMMnTKK OX CITY PLAN 31 of its original length, niul .starling nuar the junction of JJroadway, Husli-wick Avenue and Eastern Parkway, and crossing in a circumferential waymost of the main tlioroughfares referred to above. For a sentimental reason, namely-, the preservation of an old historicthoroughfare, and for a practical one as well, much stress has been laidupon the necessity- of widening and developing this road. Such a road,laid out as a boulevard, would be a natural line of travel to Coney Islandfrom Long Island and Queens as well as from Upper New York. It wouldconnect the existing Eastern Parkway with Bay Parkway and the ShoreDrive. It would bring a most desirable variation into the street systemof large area at present without park, plajground or boulevard of anycharacter. Of almost t(iual iinjjortanrc is the necessity for a north and soutlithoroughfare from Brooklyn to Queens. From the Williamsburg Bridgethere is no satisfactory route to Long Island Ci

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