Compare Early New York/Brooklyn Architecture and Streetscape

Even though Manhattan and Brooklyn have similar features both where developed in a different pace and has different topography and spaces organization. Both boroughs look like two different towns with similar functions. The lifestyle in the early centuries impacted the economic, societies, population and government over the years.

Manhattan and Brooklyn were best known as rural areas abounded of farms, agriculture, flora and fauna before the British bought land from the Dutch. If we talk about Borough Hall Brooklyn which was mostly surrounded by farms that were sold to use the territory to be renovated to be used for more accessible and productive spaces.  The Lenape land called the New Amsterdam during the 1800s environment was mostly houses and small business places.

The architecture in Brooklyn is full of historical background with diverse architectural styles from Greek and Rome like neoclassic and Romanesque. In willow street, there’s many different brownstones buildings with aesthetical front door design and window fancy lintel. In addition, we observed three brownstones houses one of them was the 157 willow street in Brooklyn, these buildings seems to be own by the same owner, the doors have ionic columns. In Manhattan the building 170 john street trading post exterior design was very simple, the front door columns capital was more modernistic not as the traditional columns.

The materials used in Brooklyn brownstone houses during the 18^th and 19th centuries was mostly predominant in this borough was wood within the years brick been used to replace wood since there was a big amount of fires happening because of the village was made out of the wood material.  Nowadays stucco its used  to imitate brick and to be used in façade. Some old buildings in Wall Street Manhattan Façade were made out of granite  not stucco or brick but other expensive materials to show the transition between Brooklyn and Manhattan.