Prospect Hill

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PROSPECT HILL RESERVOIR.

Passing along Flatbush avenue yesterday, it occurred to us that a brief sketch of the progress of the Prospect Hill Reservoir might not be devoid of interest to our readers. Flatbush avenue, if continued to Fulton Ferry, as it has been heretofore proposed it should be, and as it doubtless some day will be, would form perhaps the very finest and grandest of the great avenues of Brooklyn. At present, however, it terminates in Fulton avenue, and thus becomes a mere tributary of the mighty flood which pours from all parts of the Western District past the City Hall into the already over-crowded Fulton street, whose narrow width will ere many years have to be greatly enlarged, or it can never afford passage to its ever increasing traffic. From Fulton avenue straight to the summit of Prospect Hill, Flatbush avenue stretches its broad surface. There is no other of the great avenues so little built on as this—there is no other whose lofty slopes offer such enchanting views of distant scenery to the inhabitant. But people prefer convenience to scenery, and will not for the finest landscape in creation endure the discomfort of semi-suffocation in a tardy stage, when by living on an avenue of less favored picturesqueness they can at all times obtain rapid and easy transit by railroad from and to their domiciles.