How Sunset Park got its name

Ah, the view.

From atop a hill in Sunset Park, there are marvelous vistas of the harbor, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, the Manhattan skyline and the setting sun.

This is the park, built in the 1890s, that gave its name to its surrounding neighborhood on Gowanus Bay in the west of Brooklyn, originally home to the Lenape people who farmed the area before the Europeans came in the 1600s.

The Dutch found the fertile soil and the waterways to their liking, acquired the land from the Canarsees and began farming along the waterfront.

It became more of an urban community after Brooklyn was incorporated as a city in 1834 and developed further with the construction of horsecar lines and factories in the area.

The neighborhood grew dramatically after Irving T. Bush purchased