Excerpt from Report on a Proposed Park System for the Borough of Richmond, New York City: Prepared and Submitted by the Committee on Parks of the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, With Map of the Borough of Richmond; December, 1902 The area to be embraced in the proposed System of Parks has been a subject which has received the most careful attention. Comparisons have been made with other cities of the United States and in Europe and with other sections of the City of New York, both as regards the amount of land to be contained in the Park System and the expense of acquiring and maintaining them, as well as the advantages to be derived from the point of View of the public health and the general development and progress of an increasing population both of New York City and the Borough of Richmond. It is considered to be a fact beyond the question of argu ment that no more opportune time exists than the present one for the purchase of suitable sites, both as regards cost and choice of sites. The total area of the Borough of Richmond is acres, and of this total it would appear that 3, 500 acres, approximately. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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