Neighborhood Guide

Sunset Park


Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by the Gowanus Expressway/17th Street, Park SlopeGreenwood Heights and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, 8th Avenue and Borough Park to the east, 65th Street and Bay Ridge to the south, and Upper New York Bay to the west.[3][4] Because it was once close to the southern boundary of the City of Brooklyn, Sunset Park is considered to be part of South Brooklyn.

However, until the 1960s, the northern part of Sunset Park was considered to be part of Gowanus, and the southern part was included in Bay Ridge. The neighborhood received its own name in that decade.[5]

The 24.5-acre (9.9 ha) public Sunset Park, for which the neighborhood was named, was founded in the 1890s, and is located between 41st and 44th Streets and 5th and 7th Avenues. The park's elevated location offers views of New York HarborManhattan; the Statue of Liberty; and, more distantly, the hills of Staten Island and New Jersey.

One of Brooklyn's "least heterogeneous neighborhoods",     Sunset Park's population is composed of Puerto RicansMexicans and other Hispanics, in addition to ChineseIndians and Norwegians. The core of the Hispanic population is west of 5th Avenue, while the center of the Chinese population – now referred to as Brooklyn's Chinatown – is from 7th Avenue east to Borough Park. The area between 5th and 7th Avenues is mostly mixed. The ethnic diversity of the neighborhood is celebrated annually with the Sunset Park Parade of Flags down 5th Avenue.

 

In February 2016, Sunset Park West was one of four neighborhoods featured in an article in The New York Times about "New York’s Next Hot Neighborhoods".


Sunset Park Listings

Size Starting from Listings Count Avg. $/Ft2 DOM
1 BR $355.0K 5 $699 352
2 BR $350.0K 6 $722 81
3 BR $549.0K 3 $677 153

$699

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