Sunset Park

Left to right - Dr. Benjamin Neel and NYS Assemblymember Felix Ortiz
Sunset Park

Brand new cancer center opens in Sunset Park

NYU Langone’s Laura & Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center in Sunset Park, which opened on June 10, offers medical and radiation oncology treatment and infusion treatments for adult patients with all cancer types and blood disorders. The first floor has five exam rooms and is equipped with the latest oncological technology, including a new state-of-the-art linear accelerator and a CT simulator […]

Land Use, Sunset Park

Four historic districts landmarked in Sunset Park

The Sunset Park Landmarks Committee, an activist association of neighborhood preservationists, celebrated a major victory on June 18 when the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) responded to their six years of organized advocacy by voting unanimously to protect four historic residential sections of Sunset Park. The Sunset Park North, Sunset Park South, Central Sunset Park, and Sunset Park 50th Street historic […]

Adams and NYU Langone Health -volunteers stand in front of a Langone sign. Photo by eGregorio
Sunset Park

Langone opens food pantry

The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone has debuted a new grocery store-like food pantry, called “The Table,” in Sunset Park. This comprehensive program provides a new nutritional resource by offering a diverse variety of food to local residents at no cost. “We were surprised to learn from our screening survey that one in three families in our community ran […]

Arts, Sunset Park, Theater

TARGET MARGIN THEATER’S ‘MARJANA AND THE FORTY THIEVES’ IS CHARMING AT ITS BEST, BUT DISJOINTED.

“Marjana and The Forty Thieves” is a modern retelling from the minds of the Target Margin Theater Company of The One Thousand and One Nights, directed by David Herskovits. Broken into three distinct acts, each with a unique style of storytelling, the play enthusiastically immerses the viewer in a tactile world of storytale. The collaborative, unbridled energy and years of […]

Sunset Park

The “gamification” of rehab

On a Friday afternoon at Rusk Rehabilitation Brooklyn at Sunset Park Family Health Center, 96-year-old Mable Henry determinedly steps up and down a set of stairs, working to relearn balance and coordination. The Rusk Rehabilitation center, located at 150 55th Street in Brooklyn, is part of NYU Langone Health, and home to a clinic that’s exploring new treatment options through […]

Kids, Sunset Park

It’s the Year of the Pig!!!

Chinese Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, welcomes the Year of the Pig starting tonight, Feb. 4, and going until February 19th, the Lantern Festival Since 2016, New York City public school students have had  the day off, probably because the Chinese population in New York City has grown 35% from 2000 to 2013, to about 350,000. […]

Carlos Menchaca, Port Authority, Red Hook Containerport, Red Hook Shopping, Sunset Park, Uncategorized, Waterfront

Are the Red Hook cranes headed to Sunset Park? by George Fiala

In an incredible overreaction, Kyle Kimball, head of the NYC Economic Development Corporation (EDC), announced that he was abandoning development of Sunset Park’s South Brooklyn Marine Terminal (SBMT), simply because City Councilman Carlos Menchaca didn’t give him what he wanted. SBMT comprises ten blocks along the waterfront in Sunset Park, southwards from 29th Street. It is an intermodal facility, named […]