Driving New York City - Sunset Park Brooklyn

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Sunset Park
Located in South Brooklyn, Sunset Park is a culturally diverse neighborhood surrounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and Upper New York Bay to the west. Home to the eponymous public park, Sunset Park boasts historic row houses, a large concentration of industrial space, community-based organizations, and small businesses that cater to its multigenerational and immigrant community.
Before European settlement, the area was part of an important set of trails that traversed Brooklyn and enabled the Lenape Native Americans to form trade routes connecting to other areas. Sunset Park was primarily used for agriculture and farming until the middle of the 19th century. Transportation improvements, particularly the extension of the 5th Avenue elevated railroad through the neighborhood in 1893 and the opening of the subway along 4th Avenue in 1915, helped initiate development, with many middle-class row houses and multiple industrial centers developed in the 1890s through the 1920s. Home to waves of Scandinavian, Irish, and Italian immigrants, the neighborhood experienced a decline in the late 1940s and 1950s due to shifting industrial practices and the disruptive development of the Gowanus Expressway. Although Sunset Park was negatively impacted by redlining, suburbanization, and the decline of waterfront industry following World War II, new residents revitalized the community as it evolved from majority White to majority Latinx and Asian. Incoming immigrant communities included Puerto Ricans who settled in Sunset Park starting in the 1950s as well as Chinese, Mexican, Ecuadorian, and Dominican immigrants who began arriving in large numbers in the 1980s. The influx of new Chinese residents led to the formation of Brooklyn’s first, and New York City’s third, Chinatown along 7th and 8th avenues.
Sunset Park is home to several commercial corridors that each maintain a unique identity and serve a diverse clientele. 3rd Avenue remains an industrial hub and serves as the eastern border of the Southwest Brooklyn Industrial Business Zone. 4th Avenue, on the other hand, has an emerging retail presence. In the dense commercial core of the neighborhood, 5th Avenue from 39th Street to 65th Street has a high concentration of Latinx businesses and is home to the neighborhood’s only Business Improvement District (BID). 7th and 8th avenues feature Brooklyn’s Chinatown where residents and visitors can conveniently shop, dine, and access professional services from unique small businesses and entrepreneurs in Chinese and other languages. The neighborhood is easily accessible by subway via the D, N, and R trains as well as multiple bus lines and the NYC Ferry. In addition, the neighborhood is served by private bus routes that connect residents and employees to the other major Chinatowns in Manhattan and Queens.

[@richshort8120]

Thanks for posting this. Big 40th thumbs up 👍 This area was my childhood growing up in this area during the 60's and 70's My parents were married at St Michael's Church 4th ave 42nd street. My grandmother lived next door to
St Michael's 338th 42nd street. Thanks again 🤗 Have a great week 😻😎👍

[@JohnnyAzariaTV]

thank you so much , glad you enjoyed 😀

[@elicielcajigasec1977]

I remember back in the early 2000s, when I would go shopping every weekend, I would take the S53 bus from Staten Island to 4th Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Then I would walk over to 3rd Avenue & wait for the B37 bus going to Downtown Brooklyn at the Fulton Street Mall. It was much better than taking the S46 bus from West Brighton to the Staten Island Ferry. But I did that as well sometimes.

[@MartyGlenn72]

In that area, I'll stick with riding the bus on 5th Ave or the subway on 4th Avenue, thank you very much! I don't need my car insurance to skyrocket or any body shop bills! 😄

[@JohnnyAzariaTV]

stick to the subway too many doubled parked cars for the buses , thank you for watching 😀