Manahatta began in the history books as land roamed by the Natives of the Americas, and its indigenous animal species. It became transformed by the Dutch who came to colonize the land in order to find an easier path into Asia, laying claim to New Amsterdam. Fugitives of the United Kingdom later traveled to this land, with their ideas of owning land, and making money, and resulting in the pollution of sacred indigenous land. Manahatta became Manhattan; losing its original name and transforming into the new center of trade, manufacturing and commerce. As more people traveled into the new-found land, the surrounding land was slowly taken over as well. Brooklyn became another trading post, but mostly being used as farmland by the Dutch, therefore founding New Utrecht, and the surrounding neighborhoods. The difference between the two (now Boroughs) lie in their layout; Manhattan became organized according to a grid, a grid that was only later implemented into Brooklyn once the need for farming had been pushed out by the necessity of housing and land. Once looking at the grid of Manhattan, urban planners came to realize that open space is essential to city living; this created newer open spaces in the lots on the map, but it initiated the creation of Central Park itself. In a way, I would describe Brooklyn’s layout as an effect to the grid being created in Manhattan. As the designers of Central park were tasked with designing Central park, Brooklyn had realized that they would most likely require one as well, seeing as residential became more and more demanded. Looking at the map of Brooklyn and seeing the shape of Prospect Park adds to the idea that Brooklyn wasn’t exactly created as a grid just like Manhattan; the blocks and lots were just an afterthought.