“New York ought to have such an avenue like the Champs Elysées of Paris, Unter den Linden of Berlin, or the Ring Strasse of Vienna, but more ample than any of them; for here, of all places, owing to the shape of the island, there is the most need of such a thing.”

— Ernest Flagg

"The Plan of New York, and How to Improve It," Scribner's Magazine (August, 1904) 36

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