Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s streets cape were created differently, one of the reasons why? Is because of topography. They each had a different layout. Meanwhile, Manhattan mostly had flat lands to build and grow, Brooklyn had hills to deal with; a topography that wasn’t stable. This meant that Brooklyn took a little more time to develop because of the physics and dynamics it required to grow. Once Manhattan began to boost it’s economy with trade in the 20th century. Manhattan was known for its workforce and a rapid pace environment. This allowed the neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights to be an escape from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Brooklyn in the other hand became a safe haven for people who wanted to live in some sort of quietness and peace. Although, Brooklyn wasn’t quite developed at the time yet it served as a great place to have views of the city. Also, the streets of Brooklyn when the Brooklyn Borough Hall was constructed; the streets were developed to look at Manhattan. This was a notion of welcoming the people coming from the ferry that transported people from the Manhattan to Brooklyn since that was the main way of connection and transportation between the two pieces of land.  Now, Brooklyn’s format of streets are limited to the fact that Brooklyn had various districts at the time and each section created their own layout of a grid. This is why we see discontinued streets nowadays. Eventually, when Brooklyn became an official borough and all six districts became one, they had to compose all streets to unite with each other and this created the a dis uniformed mesh.

Meanwhile, Manhattan had the perfect grid with rectangular lots for future builds and progress. It was almost considered perfect.