Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West)

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

This area lies where Sunset Park meets Borough Park, just south of Green-Wood Cemetery.

  • 0.42 square miles
  • 35,632 residents, 2020 Census
  • 68 street corners
  • 2 subway stations
  • 5 bus routes

Sunset Park's rowhouses went up in the late 1800s and early 1900s for port workers and commuters, and in the 1980s a growing number of Chinese residents settled around Eighth Avenue, their numbers in the neighborhood tripling by the end of the decade. Borough Park, to the east, grew after World War I, spurred by the New Utrecht Avenue elevated line, today's D train, and it is now home to one of the largest Orthodox Jewish communities outside Israel.

Sources: Borough Park, Brooklyn (Wikipedia); LPC Designates Four Historic Districts in Sunset Park (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); Building Brooklyn: Eighth Avenue (Brooklyn Public Library); Borough Park history (Brooklyn Daily Eagle).

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Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West) borders three areas, and 9th Avenue holds more of its corners than any other street, 23 of 68.

Street map of Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West), Brooklyn, outlined among Sunset Park (Central), Borough Park and Green-Wood Cemetery, with its two subway stations and Rappaport Playground.Borough ParkSunset Park (Central)
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 9 Av lines D
  • Fort Hamilton Pkwy lines D

Getting around

Two subway stations and buses on five routes stop in or at the edge of Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West).

  • 2 subway stations
  • 5 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B9
  • B11
  • B16
  • B35
  • B70

Safety record

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

  • 668 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 9.8 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 42 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
42
Turn calming
15
Accessible pedestrian signals
8
Safety Improvement Projects
3

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 4,963 school-zone speed camera tickets at four corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most speed tickets
Fort Hamilton Parkway & 37th Street, 3,775

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 35,632 residents in Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West), about 84,800 per square mile.

  • 11,106 homes, 2020 Census
  • 951 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 2,332 residential lots hold buildings from 1924 or earlier, and 91% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks

Parkland
1.8 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Rappaport Playground (1.1 acres) and Brizzi Playground (0.7 acre)

Streets and trees

Trees
1,504 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and littleleaf linden
Street with the most corners
9th Avenue, with 23 of the area's 68
Height above sea level
From 61 feet at Fort Hamilton Parkway & 60th Street to 141 feet at 8th Avenue & 44th Street
Honorary street names
2 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists 11 schools in Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West).

Public schools
2
Charter and private schools
9

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, two bike-share stations stand in Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West).

  • 2 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 231 major felonies at places in Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West).

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West)

  • 220 major felonies in 2024
  • 751 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West), the NYPD recorded another 128 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 10.1 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West).

Map of Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West): 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 (East)-Borough Park (West), 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 (East)-Borough Park (West), most about 1,000 feet across, 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 (East)-Borough Park (West) 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 (East)-Borough Park (West) and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precinct
66th
Major felonies recorded at places in Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 115 major felonies at places in Sunset Park (East)-Borough Park (West), against 122 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.