Located in Brooklyn, Sunset Park is surrounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery, Borough Park, Bay Ridge, and Upper New York Bay. Only after Europeans arrived in 1636 did the Canarsee Indians live there. Sunset Park was incorporated into South Brooklyn or Bay Ridge in the late nineteenth century, but it was still under construction. Sunset Park was developed between the 1890s and the 1920s as a result of the city’s elevated and subway systems, which attracted middle- and upper-class families and businesses alike.
Northern 65th Street was renamed Sunset Park for an urban renewal initiative in the mid-1990s after the decline of the industrial areas. Immigrant groups began flocking to the neighborhood in the late twentieth century, and by the twenty-first century, the neighborhood’s population was mainly composed of Hispanics, Chinese, and Indians (along with smaller swaths of predominantly white young urban professionals and the last vestiges of earlier, working-class Scandinavian, Irish, and Italian communities).
Sunset Park is a part of Brooklyn’s District 7, which encompasses the whole borough. New York City Police Department officers patrol the area with the 72nd Precinct. NYC Fire Department Engine 201 and Engine 228/Ladders 14 perform firefighting services in this incident. The New York City Council’s 38th and 39th wards include Sunset Park.
