Sunset Park Workers

Sunset Park remains a working waterfront, home to active maritime uses. A diverse array of light industrial employers, many concentrated in the Brooklyn Army Terminal and Bush Terminal, includes printers, medical testing labs, garment makers, and even a vinyl-record pressing plant. Small manufacturers share the area's avenues and side streets with warehouses, waste transfer stations - and residents. In contrast to the Maspeth/East Williamsburg industrial area, Sunset Park workers, especially those living in its long-time Latino and Asian communities, are much likelier to walk or take the subway to work.

Among subway commuters, far-flung homes across the boroughs -- with a high concentration in northeast Brooklyn -- indicate many long commutes via local trains, while the lack of efficient transit connections from southeast Brooklyn means that workers living there are more likely to drive or carpool. Even with significant subsidy, commuter ferry service to Brooklyn Army Terminal (discontinued as of 2010) was too expensive for most Sunset Park workers; the ferry primarily served park-and-ride customers bound for Manhattan.