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 24th Street is also called South Slope.
Sunset Park, Brooklyn
62nd Street and Fifth Avenue
Sunset Park, the park after which the neighborhood is named
The 59th Street station, one of the stations on the Fourth Avenue subway that is located within Sunset Park. The line and station opened in 1915.
Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery is located between South Slope/Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park, and lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park. Its boundaries include, among other streets, 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east.
The Gothic revival entrance to the cemetery at 25th Street, designed by Richard M. Upjohn
Richard Upjohn's memorial to Hezekiah Pierrepont and his family, built c. 1840s, sits on one of the cemetery's few man-made hillocks
"Weep Not", one of John Moffitt's sculpted panels
The visitor building at the cemetery's Fort Hamilton entrance
