The tour of Downtown Brooklyn brought insight into the massive change that was brought about by increasing gentrification in this area. This area connected to Manhattan by the Brooklyn bridge. Houses were moved and dismantled to make this area in to a residential and commercial area which place. A place with courts and public offices, residential housing that is affordable to people of high socioeconomic status. However, this area was able to maintain some of the original architecture. It has a range of Romanesque, Greek, Italian, and Dutch designs in the buildings.