On a recent weekday, the scene on Eighth Avenue was reminiscent of the hustle and bustle before the pandemic. Between 60th and 56th streets about half the shops had reopened,…
Several Chinese restaurants in Sunset Park have decided to close temporarily to prevent coronavirus from spreading, and to relieve economic pressure on their businesses.
A number of recent studies stating that Mexican migration to the U.S. is showing clear signs of deceleration, a trend that’s being detected in immigrant-rich New York neighborhoods like Sunset…
A walking tour will explore tensions over growth, equity and environmental justice in a community that, in 1999, City Limits declared the city’s most intriguing.
Join veteran Brooklyn tour guide (and City Limits contributor) Norman Oder, along with neighborhood activist Maria Roca, on a wide-ranging tour of the Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn.
If Industry City’s new owners are hoping to paint themselves as the saviors of Sunset Park, it’s a message that has backfired with some of its neighbors.
New research suggests high poverty is a bigger threat to cities. More on that, shoddy charter school finances, tuition assistance that falls short, a vulnerable neighborhood and a new Census…
