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Factbox-Six facts about Sunset Park, site of the New York subway shooting -Breaking

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(Reuters] – New York City’s subway shooting took place in Sunset Park on Tuesday. Sunset Park is a multiracial Brooklyn neighbourhood known for its vibrant Asian cafés, shops, Statue of Liberty view, and sprawling Industry City warehouse district, which houses many creative businesses.

Let us tell you six things about your neighborhood.

* Its namesake is Sunset Park where a leafy hilltop affords breathtaking waterfront views at sunset of the Statue of Liberty and Manhattan skyline.

* Based on U.S. Census data, the population of Sunset Park is overwhelmingly Hispanic and Asian.

* In 2018, its nonfatal assault hospitalization rate of 37 per 100,000 people placed it well below the New York City average of 59.

* In February 2016, Sunset Park West was one of four neighborhoods featured in a New York Times article about “New York’s Next Hot Neighborhoods” citing redevelopment along the waterfront in Industry City and the use of warehouses as party and event spaces.

* The 478-acre (193-hectare) Green-Wood Cemetery is the burial home to famous New Yorkers including artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, composer and orchestra conductor Leonard Bernstein, Brooklyn Dodgers co-owner Charles Ebbets, newspaper publisher Horace Greeley, stained-glass pioneer Louis Comfort Tiffany and William M. “Boss” Tweed.

* The New York City subway station where the shooting took place, at 36th Street and Fourth Avenue, is served by the D​, N and ​R train lines.

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