Go to the actual park called Sunset Park (to watch the sunset), and also give this big neighborhood a shot, from its Chinese section to its Mexican section. You will find no shortage of tacos, noodle places, bubble tea stores, and more! 8th Avenue is where the action is if you are looking for authentic Chinese food.

If you want a pool full of shenanigans for the kids this is a place to take them where it will knock them out for a couple of days. No sugar blues needed. Easy to get to by bus or subway. Summer sports.

Splendid views of the Harbor. Great mix of neighborhoods ethnic groups dancing, doing tai chi, singing, playing. New York City's diversity in one spot.

Sunset Park is the area of Brooklyn along the old South Brooklyn Marine Terminal South of Greenwood Cemetery, North of Bay Ridge and West of Borough Park. It is a hillier neighborhood of Brooklyn served by the N and R trains along 4th avenue. Throughout its years has seemed more run down than the neighborhoods surrounding it and that appears true today too. It has in my lifetime experienced an influx of both East Asian and Central American immigrants that gives the neighborhood a good character but also one of the densest feelings of Brooklyn. The Architecture here is not as impressive, the streets here can give off a bad vibe more so than the other neighborhoods near it and a large portion of it near the Water is more vacant industrial facilites than other such neighborhoods in Brooklyn. Visit it when seeing the Old Marine Terminal or Greenwood Cemetery but do not move here unless you have to or unless you have family that stays here.

Sunset Park is one of Brooklyn's many less-known neighborhoods. The architecture here is lackluster; this is a rare occasion in New York when the architectural guidebook AIA GUIDE TO NEW YORK CITY is not really necessary - the book doesn't even mention the one landmark building, the monumental neo-Romanesque Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (1909; upper floor 1928), on 5th Avenue between 59th & 60th Streets. But there is a lot of intrinsic interest just in browsing the stores on 5th Avenue, a major shopping street of stores catering to the Hispanic & Asian residents. There are stores selling goods from every conceivable Latin American country, & then some; as well as many hawking Chinese & other Asian items. Obviously there are also eateries from the same geographic regions, making this quite a cool district to explore (as well as an obvious thoroughfare for this reviewer, who walked from the upper Bronx to Coney Island, over 6 1/2 days!). Don't miss the eponymous Sunset Park - the park itself, that is - between 41st & 44th Streets, 5th & 7th Avenues. The hilly park offers a good, but distant, view toward Manhattan, as well as the Statue of Liberty, Governors Island, Jersey City, & Staten Island. You also see a prominent minaret - the neighborhood also has a Muslim presence. In fact, among the frequent Spanish & Chinese signs on storefronts, you also see numerous Arabic texts; there are many hijab-clad women. The southern limit of the neighborhood is Leif Ericson Park, honoring the first European explorer to go anywhere in the western hemisphere beyond Greenland - a Norwegian-descended Icelandic Viking who discovered Baffin Island, in Arctic Canada, then Newfoundland, just after the year 1000 (the exact year is not known). The long, skinny park lies sandwiched between 66th & 67th Streets, running from 4th Avenue all the way to 10th Avenue. At the park's eastern end, at 10th Avenue, are an old street sign with a Viking ship, dating from the park's opening in 1935, & a decorative steel plaque; at the actual park's western end at 4th Avenue is a monument to Leif Ericson (ca. 970-ca. 1020), inaugurated by Norwegian Crown Prince Olav in 1939. Although most of the park only consists of sports facilities, it is a must-see for those intrigued by history - especially for this reviewer, who descends partly from Vikings!