Sunset Park Commuters

Where Sunset Park Residents Work and
How They Get There

Sunset Park is that rarity in 21st century New York City: a blue-collar walk-to-work neighborhood. Downhill from the residential area is an industrial zone anchored by the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Bush Terminal, where companies employ many neighborhood residents. Many more small factories and warehouses intermingle with housing on the area's many mixed-used blocks. More than one-third of Sunset Park residents work in some form of manufacturing. Relatively affordable housing stock and well-established Latino and East Asian communities reinforce Sunset Park's status as a laborers' haven - though heavy truck traffic exacts a price, compromising the health and safety of workers and their families.

Despite the concentration of jobs nearby, the majority of residents commute outside of Sunset Park to get to work, mostly to Manhattan's central business district but with many other destinations as well, predominantly along the subway corridor serving the neighborhood. Two in three residents do not own cars, and only 17 percent drive alone to work.