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8 unusual facts about Sunset Park


Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Brooklyn

It is located on 5th Avenue between 59th and 60th streets in the Sunset Park neighborhood and occupies about half the square block extending back to 6th Avenue, with the rectory and ancillary buildings occupying the remainder.

Lapskaus Boulevard

Lapskaus Boulevard is the nickname of part of Eighth Avenue, in a historically Norwegian working-class section of bordering Bay Ridge, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn, New York City.

Sara M. Gonzalez

Sara M. Gonzalez represents District 38 in the New York City Council, which comprises Sunset Park, Boerum Hill, Red Hook, Windsor Terrace, among other neighborhoods within the borough of Brooklyn.

South Brooklyn

The revived term was less often applied to Park Slope and Sunset Park, which had come to regard themselves as distinct.

Sunset Park, Brooklyn

Sunset Park's second age began with a wave of immigration from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and El Salvador, as well as other Latin American countries.

In recent years, however, to the discontent of many of the Cantonese, an influx of Fuzhou immigrants has been supplanting the Cantonese at a significantly faster rate than in Manhattan's Chinatown.

Sunset Park, Las Vegas

It later became the Vegas Stock Farm, which trained and raced Thoroughbred racehorses.

The Epochs

The band nexus of operations for the period of 2002-2003 and again from 2006 to today is Sunset Park, Brooklyn.


Fredro Starr

Starr also contributed to the Sunset Park, Light It Up, and Save the Last Dance movie soundtracks.

Tracy Vilar

She is best known for her roles as Girl #1 in 1994's Fresh, whose first movie debut, Shirley in the film Sunset Park, Sophia Ortiz on The WB sitcom The Steve Harvey Show during its 1996-97 season, and Angela de la Cruz on the television show, Saved.

Velmanette Montgomery

Velmanette Montgomery (born 1942) represents District 25 in the New York State Senate, which comprises Fort Greene, Boerum Hill, Red Hook, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Sunset Park, Gowanus, and Park Slope, among other neighborhoods located within the borough of Brooklyn.


see also

Sunset Park Historic District

The movie Blue Velvet had scenes filmed in Sunset Park including the house of Detective John Williams (George Dickerson).