...made, while it was yet practicable, for a range of parks and public gardens along the central parh of the island or elsewhere, to remain perpetually...unoccupied lands on the island which might, I suppose, he procured for the purpose, and which, on account of their rocky and uneven surface, might he laid...

...The population of your city, increasing with such prodigious rapidity, your sultry summers, and the corrupt atmosphere generated in hot and crowded streets,...are yet unoccupied lands on the island which might, T suppose, be procured for the purpose, and which, on account of their rocky and uneven surface, might...

...The population of your city, increasing with such prodigious rapidity, your sultry summers, and the corrupt atmosphere generated in hot and crowded streets,...are yet unoccupied lands on the island which might, T suppose, be procured for the purpose, and which, on account of their rocky and uneven surface, might...

...The population of your city, increasing with such prodigious rapidity, your sultry summers, and the corrupt atmosphere generated in hot and crowded streets,...are yet unoccupied lands on the island which might, T suppose, be procured for the purpose, and which, oil account of their rocky and uneven surface, might...

...The population of your city, increasing with such prodigious rapidity ; your sultry summers, and the corrupt atmosphere generated in hot and crowded streets,...purpose, and which, on account of their rocky and uneven surfaces, might be laid out into surpassingly beautiful pleasure-grounds; but while we are discussing...

...streets of the city. The Evening Post was for taking both Jones' Wood and a central site, — "the range of parks and public gardens along the central part of the island" suggested by Bryant in 1845. "'There is now ample room and verge enough upon the island for two parks,'...

...streets of the city. The Evening Post was for taking both Jones' Wood and a central site, — "the range of parks and public gardens along the central part of the island" suggested by Bryant in 1845. '"There is now ample room and verge enough upon the island for two parks,'...

...Park to Primrose Hill, he begged his fellow New Yorkers, in a letter to his newspaper, to establish a "range of parks and public gardens along the central part of the island" while there was still time to keep the city's fast growing populace from "sweeping over them and covering...