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Since the 1990s the Chinese population in Sunset Park has grown rapidly, today making up about one-third of the neighborhood’s estimated 130,000 people.
Sunset Park, with an Asian population of over 44,000, has quickly grown into a solidified and united Chinatown. The community is particularly known for its Fuzhounese population, many of whom ...
* Based on U.S. Census data, the population of Sunset Park is overwhelmingly Hispanic and Asian. * In 2018, its nonfatal assault hospitalization rate of 37 per 100,000 people placed it well below ...
Sunset Park is filled with bodegas, ... In 2019, more than 130,000 people lived in the area; nearly 35% of the population was Asian and 35% identified as Hispanic, ...
Members of Sunset Park’s Community Board 7 are blasting elected officials for grouping many of the city’s homeless population at several hotels within a small stretch of the neighborhood. “There are ...
John Acevedo woke up to a commotion outside. Not so strange for a New Yorker, perhaps, but unheard of in his neighborhood of Sunset Park, Brooklyn, far off the tourist path. The 20-year-old could ...
For Sonia Cortes, the battle for Sunset Park began with soup. Two years ago, after the pandemic wiped out her job as a seamstress, Ms. Cortes started selling pozole, a brothy Mexican soup, in the ...