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Sunset Park

Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and New York Harbor to the west.

Sunset Park
Sunset Park · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the western part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and New York Harbor to the west. The neighborhood is named for a public park of the same name that covers 24.5 acres (9.9 ha) between Fifth and Seventh Avenues from 41st to 44th Street. The area north of 36th Street is alternatively known as Greenwood Heights, while the section north of 20th Street is also called South Slope.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Sunset Park

Airports
Newark Liberty (EWR), 14 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 19 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 20 km
  • Philadelphia → Sunset Park
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 52m · $12–16
  • Hartford → Sunset Park
    167 km · quickest by road, 3h 32m · $16–21
  • Albany → Sunset Park
    224 km · quickest by road, 4h 6m · $20–28
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sunset Park

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sunset Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe [http://www.nywatertaxi.com Water Taxi, at Fulton Ferry Landing, provides service from various points in Manhattan along the East River.
  • Get inThe Water Taxi has service between southern Manhattan and Red Hook, often used by customers of the Red Hook Ikea.

From Wikivoyage: Brooklyn, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    73 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    570 km
  3. 03
    Tortola and the British Virgin IslandsVG

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    2,628 km
  4. 04
    ViequesPR

    8 ways of moving, 12 sources

    2,634 km
  5. 05
    SabaNL

    8 ways of moving, 22 sources

    2,759 km

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Around it

Next door to Sunset Park

Sunset Park is 6 km from Brooklyn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.