Sunset Park, Brooklyn News

The Sunset Post is a trilingual, hyperlocal community newspaper covering Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

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• October 2026 Event Calendar

  October events in and around Sunset Park include sailing, art, workshops, films, opera, books, civic meetings and community celebrations.

• Sunset Park deserves a safer Third Avenue

  Katie Walsh and Ángela Azzolino call for urgent safety improvements on Third Avenue after another pedestrian death in Sunset Park.

• Slightly Sooty Salad: Step into acorn time

  Learn how to collect and hot-leach white oak acorns, then turn them into a chocolate cake with this fall foraging guide.

• Neighbors help shape a billboard art residency

  Sunset Park neighbors are helping shape Sky Public, a proposed artist residency that would give an unused BQE billboard a new role.

• Trick-or-treating moves from front doors to local businesses

  Sunset Park shops prepare for Halloween with masks, costumes, chocolate and baked goods as trick-or-treating moves through the neighborhood.

• Open Studios returns to connect artists and audiences across the neighborhood

  Open Studios returns Oct. 16–18 across 20+ Sunset Park locations, with 300+ artists, makers and creative spaces.

• Brooklyn Grange scales back rooftop farming as workers push for contract

  Brooklyn Grange is scaling back farming at its Sunset Park rooftop as union workers continue a two-year fight for a contract.

• Still Here: Pokeweed is for the birds

  Pokeweed’s loud fuchsia stems and dark berries feed birds through fall and winter, while reminding people to admire this toxic native from afar.

• Danny Mena: A life dedicated to sharing the flavors of Mexico

  Chefs representing participating restaurants at Bowl of 'Zole gather for a group photo. Photo by Mariana Pelaez

• Feline troubles: Local filmmakers chronicle city’s cat crisis

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• askMO: Who has the right of way when you cross midblock?

  A reader asks why a driver honked while they crossed midblock. askMO explains NYC right-of-way rules and drivers’ duty to avoid collisions.

• Eighth Avenue fills with floats, hanfu and lion dances

  Eighth Avenue hosted Brooklyn’s third Mid-Autumn float parade and Asian cultural festival, with performances and more than 20 community groups.

• Birds of Sunset Park: Absolutely Cuckoo

  Nick Dawson reflects on the elusive cuckoos of Sunset Park and a Yellow-billed Cuckoo photographed at Bush Terminal Park.

• Woman-owned funeral home on Fourth keeps service affordable and attentive

  Funeral director Doris Amen reflects on four decades in the business, keeping prices low and helping families through grief.

• Shuyao Huang’s solo show explored perception and change

  Shuyao Huang’s Art Cake exhibition “Still Becoming” explored repetition, perception and how meaning changes over time.

• Third Avenue safety and housing lead Community Board 7’s September meeting

  CB7’s September meeting centered on Third Avenue safety, St. Rocco’s housing, neighborhood complaints and upcoming land-use decisions.

• New workforce network links residents to waterfront careers

  Sunset Park residents weigh new waterfront job programs as a workforce network prepares to share its six-month needs assessment.c

• Jiayi Zheng’s death renews calls for a safer Third Avenue

  Nurse Jiayi Zheng’s death renews calls for long-delayed safety changes along Third Avenue in Sunset Park.

• Regina Opera's future at OLPH uncertain as charter school plans move

  A charter high school plans a 2027 move into OLPH Academy, raising enrollment concerns while Regina Opera's future at the site remains uncertain.

• Sumner Crane’s quiet years in Sunset Park

  No wave artist Sumner Crane spent his final dozen years in Sunset Park, where many neighbors better knew his wife, teacher Susan Lehman.

• At the 9/11 memorial, remembrance turns to the next generation

  Sunset Park marks 25 years since 9/11 while residents and leaders ask how its memory will reach a generation born afterward.

• Currents carry debris — and sometimes tragedy — to Sunset Park shoreline

  A woman was recovered from Bay Ridge Channel off Bush Terminal Park as a park regular described the police response and waterfront currents.

• Mamdani is first NYC mayor to march in local Mexican Independence Day parade

  Mayor Zohran Mamdani becomes the first sitting NYC mayor to march in Sunset Park’s Mexican Independence Day Parade, joining a celebration of the neighborhood’s

• Residents raise park safety and theft concerns at 72nd Precinct meeting

  At the 72nd Precinct council meeting, police honored officers while residents raised concerns about theft and vehicles speeding through the park.