CHAPTEE Y
RIVERSIDE DRIVE

This ■ beautiful) section^^ begins- at Seventy-second
Street and stretches north along the Hudson Eiver
to the end of the island at Inwood Park. Some
years ago the city condemned the land immediately
adjoining the river and commenced the construction
of a public park, which is now in process of exten¬
sion and completion. The tracks of the New York
Central, unfortunately, run along the river at this
point and make a discordant feature in the land¬
scape which would otherwise be a thoroughfare
equalling in beauty the famous Thames embank¬
ment.

Eealizing this situation, the railroad recently
agreed to plans which, if carried out, would make
the river front in this section one of the fa¬
vored spots of the world. The tracks would
be entirely under cover, the landscape terraced
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