Sunset Park
Neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. Part of Brooklyn.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Breakneck | Dan Wang | subject | Wang describes the immigrant neighborhood avenue by avenue: Latino businesses on Fifth, Chinese stores on Sixth through Eighth, mitten crabs in fall, the park with views of Manhattan, and the Moses-built Sunset Play Center. |
Sub-places
Breakneck — Dan Wang (2025)
Source: Breakneck · Readwise highlight
Walk south of the wealthy Brooklyn neighborhood of Park Slope—where brownstone homes retail for around $4 million—and you’ll reach Sunset Park.
- Role: subject
- In the book: Wang describes the immigrant neighborhood avenue by avenue: Latino businesses on Fifth, Chinese stores on Sixth through Eighth, mitten crabs in fall, the park with views of Manhattan, and the Moses-built Sunset Play Center. He wishes his parents would move there.
- Why it matters: It is the book’s closing emblem of a walkable, mixed, affordable urban place and the vehicle for the Robert Moses argument; the dedication repeats the wish.