Sunset Park - A Neighborhood Located in the Borough of Brooklyn

Sunset Park is a neighborhood located in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City. Sunset Park is a city within a city that features many distinct ethnic communities, including Brooklyn's own Chinatown on 8th Avenue, historic homes, multiple commercial corridors, acres of green space, and an industrial district that employs 20,000 people.

From the Gowanus Expressway to 8th Avenue, Sunset Park features primarily brownstones, limestones, and brick and wood row houses built in the late 1800s and early 1900s that have attracted many families priced out of nearby Park Slope. The entire area between 4th and 7th Avenues and 38th and 64th Streets, though not a City landmark, is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The neighborhood gets its name from Sunset Park, a 24.5 acre park between Fifth and Seventh Avenues, 41st and 44th Streets, and a new recreation area is planned. The New York City Department of Economic Development has announced it is planning to convert five former industrial piers between 43rd Street and 50th Street into a park and wildlife habitat. The plans call for an indoor ice skating and hockey rink, a banquet hall, a moored party/restaurant boat and food vendors.

Sunset Park's treasure, however, is Green-wood Cemetery created in 1838 on 478-acres that include a Gothic Revival gate at the 5th Avenue and 25th Street entrance, a quaint historic chapel, 20 miles of winding paths, rolling hills, abundant trees, lakes, and the graves of some of New York City's most notable residents—Leonard Bernstein, Henry Ward Beecher, and Boss Tweed. The cemetery is so revered that the architect of a proposed condominium project at 23rd Street and 7th Avenue changed his design after residents and cemetery officials protested that the project would obstruct views of the Statue of Liberty from the historic Battle Hill in Green-Wood Cemetery.