Sunset Park (Central)

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

The middle of Sunset Park, this area surrounds the park itself, which spans 41st to 44th Streets between Fifth and Seventh Avenues.

  • 0.67 square miles
  • 55,606 residents, 2020 Census
  • 89 street corners
  • 1 subway station
  • 6 bus routes

The City of Brooklyn planned the 18-acre park in 1890, and from its highest point visitors can pick out the Statue of Liberty and the hills of Staten Island and New Jersey; its pool first opened in 1936. The surrounding blocks hold rowhouses built in the late 1800s and early 1900s for port workers and for professionals commuting to jobs in Downtown Brooklyn and Manhattan, and parts of 44th, 47th and 48th Streets became city historic districts in 2019.

Sources: Sunset Park (NYC Parks); Firehouse, Engine Company 28 (now Engine Company 228) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); LPC Designates Four Historic Districts in Sunset Park (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission).

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Sunset Park (Central) borders six areas, and 7th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 24 of 89.

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  • A neighboring area
  • Park
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 8 Av lines N accessible

Getting around

One subway station and buses on six routes stop in or at the edge of Sunset Park (Central).

  • 1 subway station
  • 1 listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 6 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B9
  • B11
  • B16
  • B35
  • B63
  • B70

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged more police-reported crashes than the average Brooklyn corner.

  • 1,234 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 13.9 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 59 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
56
Turn calming
15
Accessible pedestrian signals
12
Safety Improvement Projects
6

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more red-light camera tickets than school-zone speed or bus-lane tickets.

  • 1,527 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 15 school-zone speed camera tickets at one corner
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
4th Avenue & 60th Street, 1,527
Most speed tickets
6th Avenue & 53rd Street, 15

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 55,606 residents in Sunset Park (Central), about 83,000 per square mile.

  • 16,563 homes, 2020 Census
  • 765 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 3,924 residential lots hold buildings from 1915 or earlier, and 94% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
23.4 acres of Sunset Park, as NYC Parks maps it within the area's boundary
Designated landmark
The Sunset Play Center
Historic districts
Central Sunset Park and Sunset Park North, wholly or partly within Sunset Park (Central)

Streets and trees

Trees
2,784 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, pin oak and thornless honeylocust
Street with the most corners
7th Avenue, with 24 of the area's 89
Height above sea level
From 56 feet at 5th Avenue & 36th Street to 169 feet at 6th Avenue & 44th Street
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists six schools in Sunset Park (Central).

Public schools
4
Charter and private schools
2

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 16 bike-share stations stand in Sunset Park (Central).

  • 16 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 292 major felonies at places in Sunset Park (Central).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Sunset Park (Central)

  • 403 major felonies in 2024 111 fewer in 2025
  • 1,127 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Sunset Park (Central), the NYPD recorded another 183 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 8.5 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Sunset Park (Central).

Map of Sunset Park (Central): 8 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Sunset Park (Central), 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Sunset Park (Central), and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Sunset Park (Central) are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Sunset Park (Central) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
72nd (most of the area), 66th, 68th
Major felonies recorded at places in Sunset Park (Central), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 148 major felonies at places in Sunset Park (Central), against 146 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.