Sunset Park (West)

Neighborhood · Brooklyn

Sunset Park (West) covers the waterfront side of Sunset Park, a neighborhood whose name in the 1960s came to cover everything from 17th to 65th Streets.

  • 1.81 square miles
  • 54,473 residents, 2020 Census
  • 215 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 10 bus routes

Beginning in the 1890s its shoreline was remade by Bush Terminal, a complex of piers, warehouses and factories that reached from 32nd to 51st Streets and employed 20,000 people, while rowhouses went up inland for port workers. The Brooklyn Army Terminal, built in 1918 and once the largest military supply base in the country, was bought by the City in 1981 and now holds manufacturing space, and Bush Terminal Piers Park opened on the shoreline in 2014.

Sources: Firehouse, Engine Company 28 (now Engine Company 228) (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); LPC Designates Four Historic Districts in Sunset Park (NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission); About Us (Brooklyn Army Terminal); Sunset Park: Irving's Place (NYC Municipal Archives).

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Sunset Park (West) borders five areas, and Gowanus Expressway holds more of its corners than any other street, 59 of 215.

Street map of Sunset Park (West), Brooklyn, outlined among Sunset Park (Central), Bay Ridge, Green-Wood Cemetery and Windsor Terrace-South Slope, with its six subway stations and Shore Park and Parkway.Windsor Terrace-South SlopeCarroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red HookSunset Park (Central)Bay Ridge
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Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • Prospect Av lines R
  • 25 St lines R
  • 36 St lines D N R
  • 45 St lines R
  • 53 St lines R
  • 59 St lines N R accessible

Getting around

Six subway stations and buses on ten routes stop in or at the edge of Sunset Park (West).

  • 6 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 8 local bus routes
  • 2 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • B9
  • B11
  • B35
  • B37
  • B63
  • B67
  • B69
  • B70

Express bus routes

  • X27
  • X37

Safety record

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

  • 3,419 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 15.9 a corner, on average
  • 10.5 the average Brooklyn corner
  • 12 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 110 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
106
Accessible pedestrian signals
14
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
1
Enhanced crossings
1
Safety Improvement Projects
1

Camera tickets

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

  • 2,836 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 23,246 school-zone speed camera tickets at 18 corners
  • 0 bus-lane camera tickets
Most red-light tickets
4th Avenue & 18th Street, 2,836

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 54,473 residents in Sunset Park (West), about 30,100 per square mile.

  • 18,619 homes, 2020 Census
  • 1,376 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 4,599 residential lots hold buildings from 1910 or earlier, and 93% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
10.9 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Shore Park and Parkway (3.6 acres), John Allen Payne Playground (1.4 acres) and D'Emic Playground (1.2 acres)
Designated landmarks
68th Police Precinct Station House; 68th Police Precinct Station Stable; the Firehouse, Engine Company 28; and the Weir Greenhouse, among others
Historic districts
Sunset Park 50th Street and Sunset Park South, wholly or partly within Sunset Park (West)

Streets and trees

Trees
4,088 in NYC Parks' records, most often London planetree, thornless honeylocust and pin oak
Street with the most corners
Gowanus Expressway, with 59 of the area's 215
Height above sea level
From 5 feet at 2nd Avenue & 30th Street to 154 feet at 7th Avenue & 22nd Street
Honorary street names
4 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 26 schools and one library in Sunset Park (West).

Public schools
19
Charter and private schools
7
Library
Sunset Park Library

Bike share

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 40 bike-share stations stand in Sunset Park (West).

  • 40 bike-share stations

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 428 major felonies at places in Sunset Park (West).

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

  • 538 major felonies in 2024 110 fewer in 2025
  • 2,004 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Sunset Park (West), the NYPD recorded another 97 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 9.6 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Sunset Park (West).

Police precincts
72nd (most of the area), 68th, 76th
Major felonies recorded at places in Sunset Park (West), 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 181 major felonies at places in Sunset Park (West), against 167 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.