How Sunset Park got its name
September 22, 2025
Sunset Park offers stunning harbor views and a rich history, evolving from Dutch farmland to a diverse, multicultural Brooklyn neighborhood.
Sunset Park offers stunning harbor views and a rich history, evolving from Dutch farmland to a diverse, multicultural Brooklyn neighborhood.
Sunset Park evolved from Dutch farmland to an immigrant hub, industrial center and vibrant multicultural neighborhood with renewed commercial life.
Manhattan Beach began as farmland and became a Gilded Age seaside resort, later evolving into a quiet Brooklyn neighborhood.
East New York, settled in 1670 as New Lots, grew from farmland to a Brooklyn neighborhood shaped by history and 20th-century development.
East New York, once called Ostwout or New Lots, grew from 17th-century farms to a diverse immigrant hub, later facing decline before community-led revitalization.
Along with iconic New York, Coney Island, a peninsula on the Atlantic Ocean coast of Brooklyn, is a name known around the world.
Sheepshead Bay was named for a fish once common in the area. It now includes Homecrest, Madison, and Plumb Beach, a protected parkland.
The 12:30 Club, one of the oldest organizations in Bay Ridge and founded nearly a century ago, recently installed Brian Chin as new president
Brooklyn is the cultural epicenter of the city, which is especially clear when visiting Haricot Vert, a jewelry store in Williamsburg.
Marlboro Houses’ annual Family Day, a tradition in the neighborhood for over 50 years whose purpose is getting residents together.
More than 10,000 residents lined the streets of Brooklyn’s “Little Pakistan” on Aug. 18 to commemorate the 77th anniversary of independence.
School of Rock, a music school for children and adults with more than 375 locations in 16 global markets, opened its second Brooklyn location
National Night Out (NNO) is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie.
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Nobody was able to coast through this meeting. Both sides were determined to cut an edge. Proponents of the proposed “Brooklyn Skate Garden,” slated to be built
GRAVESEND — Talk about an “arresting” performance. Big Apple Academy students put on an unforgettable and sophisticated production for an audience that included more than 50 men and women in
BAY RIDGE — The Salaam Club, one of Brooklyn’s oldest Middle Eastern civic groups, held its second meeting of the year Feb. 28 at the Bay Ridge Center for Older
SUNSET PARK — Maimonides Cancer Center and Asian Community Services hosted a seminar on cancer prevention, screening, and early detection for more than 200 community members at Park Asia Restaurant
BAY RIDGE — It’s been a Herculean hurdle. After years of planning and many months of waiting, it’s now all systems go as the new and improved Bay Ridge Center
Full slideshow below GRAND ARMY PLAZA — A second community meeting to discuss the proposed “Brooklyn Skate Garden” slated to be built in the middle of Mount Prospect Park took
Montague Street was once the principal commercial artery of the independent city of Brooklyn, and it remains the commercial heart of Brooklyn Heights to this day, historian and archivist Martha
Full slideshow below BROOKLYN BRIDGE PARK — This transformative miracle on the waterfront, the conversion of six abandoned and derelict shipping piers along the East River into a lush, eighty-five-acre
DOWNTOWN — As executive director for the Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (BID), Bay Ridge resident Kelly Carroll represents more than 300 small businesses along a 1.2-mile stretch in the
PROSPECT HEIGHTS — If you build it, they won’t come. In an exclusive interview with the Brooklyn Eagle, local residents of Prospect Heights expressed collective outrage, vehemently disagreeing with the
School will be out for Visitation Academy, 8902 Ridge Blvd., as the all-girls Catholic school announced its closure at the end of the school year. In addition, the monastery will
Full slideshow below BAY RIDGE – Good things come to those who wait. After months of patiently waiting, the new and improved Bay Ridge Center (BRC) for older adults is
Kings Bay Library took top honors in Brooklyn Public Library’s robotics championship over the weekend, besting teams from 15 libraries.
BRIGHTON BEACH — Elder abuse — an intentional act or failure to act that causes or creates a risk of harm to an adult 60 years of age and older
BAY RIDGE – John Abi-Habib is all about foresight and being on the cutting edge of whatever it is that he is involved in — be it technology or his
Full slideshow below FULTON FERRY LANDING — New York City Department of Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez announced on Thursday that the Brooklyn Bridge received a major New Year’s “glow up.”
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — The Brooklyn Heights Promenade will be even more eye-pleasing — and less ratty — in 2024, thanks to the installation of multiple new CITIBIN trash containers. The
Full slideshow below BOROUGH PARK — Maimonides Medical Center has expanded its Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) — a designated area providing around-the-clock care to ill or premature newborn infants
DOWNTOWN/PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Local Brooklyn officials are coming out in strong support of a proposal to relocate several cramped Downtown Brooklyn schools into a new, 26-story residential building at 491
Since the end of the pandemic and rent support government programs, activists and officials have warned of an “eviction tsunami.”
Slideshow and video below INDUSTRY CITY — A Brooklyn-based solar-powered fabric designer and manufacturer is following a proven Industry City model of training and hiring from neighboring Brooklyn communities. The
Full slideshow below PROMENADE ENTRANCE — “This is for the kids,” said one of the representatives of the Brooklyn Heights Garden Club, which sponsors the event each year. Lots of community
Full slideshow below MARINE PARK — The 41st Assembly District Lew Fidler Democratic Club held its 22nd annual Toys for Tots holiday toy drive on Thursday evening, once again dedicating