Prospect Lefferts Gardens is a historic Brooklyn neighborhood made up of Prospect Park, Lefferts Manor, and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens. While many tourists and residents are familiar with the Park and the Gardens, and have in many cases frequently visited both areas with their families, the historic Lefferts Manor is not as well known and visits are not as frequented. New York City, and Brooklyn in particular, have been built on immigrants. From the first Dutch settlers in the 17th Century, to the modern day Latin American immigrants, neighborhoods have been shaped by the people that have live their. Lefferts Manor is a neighborhood like no other. An 1821 covenant between Peter Lefferts and the New York City government set aside the former Lefferts families plot to be forever a neighborhood of one family brownstones. These private homes serve as a haven from the ever-growing apartment building and public housing of the surrounding neighborhoods of Crown-Heights, East New York, Brownsville, Bushwick, Flatbush, and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The population has changed over the decades and is now contrived of mostly minorities, but the houses and neighborhood still possesses that same peaceful quality which is coming harder and harder to find in the growing urban districts of New York City. While Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens possess unsurpassed beauty, our group felt a strong connection to the unique and less known section Lefferts Manor. It represents the preservation of the past, the population of the present and the future of Brooklyn and New York City.