[Kevin Martinez]

As we know both Man­hat­tan and Brook­lyn had a to­tally dif­fer­ent pace of growth and that af­fected Brook­lyn in a bad way those af­fects can be seen till this rate. While Man­hat­tan was de­vel­op­ing every­thing changed after the war in 1797 when the city went under a huge ex­pan­sion that later in 1811 lead to the cre­ation of the first major gird plan for Man­hat­tan. At the same time with the first major gird plan being made for Man­hat­tan noth­ing was made for Brook­lyn they still had no gird plan, so they were de­vel­op­ing and grow­ing the old way which was mov­ing around high areas etc. When John Ran­dal Jr. set the rec­ti­lin­ear gird for Man­hat­tan which is what can be seen till this day it was a major thing be­cause that was the plan the whole city was going to fol­low which lead to major de­mo­li­tion of prop­erty’s that were where the plan con­sider streets are going to be, at the same time in Brook­lyn while every­thing in Man­hat­tan is being es­tab­lished that left Brook­lyn in a huge dis­ad­van­tage be­cause that lead to Brook­lyn strug­gling with there urban plan­ning be­cause they didn’t have a gird to fol­low to stay align or have a sim­i­lar gird to that of what is being made for Man­hat­tan. All the strug­gles that Brook­lyn was going through as they try to grow got worse over the con­struc­tion of the Brook­lyn Bridge and then Man­hat­tan bridge this was a huge strug­gle be­cause the bridge served as a con­nec­tion of both cities but since Brook­lyn never had a mas­ter plan they keep de­vel­op­ing by fol­low­ing the old prop­er­ties lines and those ef­fects can be since today in Brook­lyn. If Brook­lyn had a mas­ter plan or got a sam­ple of the mas­ter plan Man­hat­tan was using it would of made a huge dif­fer­ence for Brook­lyn be­cause they would have had some­thing to fol­low in­stead they and that lead to all the strug­gles Brook­lyn went through that can be seen today.