Sunset Park - Crime

The NYPD crime stats show 452 complaints so far this year in that precinct (72nd.) The 20th Pct. (west 70s) shows 463. Don't know how they compare in population, etc., so the numbers may not be meaningful.

I've kind of liked the feel of the area the few times I've driven up 4th Ave. Sort of neighborhood-y.

How do you feel about crowds? It is crowded in sunset park on Sunday 5th ave is very busy. 8th ave of the area is way over crowded. It is not so full of crime as one might think the crime happens to be more about people drinking outside or a drug bust people smoking pot. Maybe people try to steal from the stores I have seen that people trying to steal video games and even seen food stolen. but as crowded and you might bump into someone most people are ok about it. Now if you drive parking is a pain in this area.

Nobody really talks about the Finnish coops in Sunset Park. They seem like such an interesting real estate anomoly. The majority of them are accepting financing now, as opposed to all cash from the recent past. The majority of buildings have units that have never been "abused" by renters, and have great charm and craftsmanship, relatively untouched... yet most are beginning to allow sublets. Most buildings are located on the high rise hill around the Park. I get that Sunset Park is super immigranty and feels psychologically distant from the action and could turn middle class folks off but in so many ways it has a lot going for it. I have been looking there myself and it stuck me as shocking that one express stop (5 mins) away from 36th st on th N train i saw apartments with almost the exact same layouts, same craftsmanship, built within two years of each other with a price diff. Of almost 175 k. The expensive one is on Pacific st across from a public school near 3rd ave. In the lowlands of bor. Hill The cheap one is across from a green park on a sweet hill in Sunset Park. Will geography, housing stock and transit ever put Sunset Park in the running as a piece of Brownstone Brooklyn? They have those too.. Brownstones.