The Lincoln Continental was inspired by Edsel Ford's frequent travels and his ability to find insights in unexpected places. In that spirit, Lincoln Motor Company has now joined with The Atlantic to celebrate the historic, evolving neighborhoods that define the very nature of a city. Part One: Sunset Park roams a Brooklyn neighborhood that is just a half-hour's drive from downtown Manhattan.
When industrialization was quickly transforming the outer boroughs from farmland to bustling neighborhoods where recent arrivals could afford to live, Sunset Park – like most of Brooklyn's valuable waterfront real estate – quickly sprouted houses, factories, port facilities and commerce. Each new wave of settlers built on what their predecessors had created, with Irish immigrants constructed the infrastructure and buildings and later immigrants from Norway and Finland establishing hospitals and health care systems, plus what might be the country's first nonprofit cooperative housing unit.
The Puerto Rican population multiplied from 500 to 45,000 between 1900 and 1930, and the neighborhood remains almost 50 percent Latino with arrivals from Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Ecuador joining the established Puerto Rican community. An additional 40 percent of the neighborhood population is Asian, with Chinese being the largest segment. After they moved into the neighborhood during the 1980s and 1990s, they have established a Chinatown to rival Manhattan's on the south side of the neighborhood.
Sunset Park is one of New York City's most diverse neighborhoods, a culturally-rich environment where Puerto Rican social clubs, Scandinavian coops and dim sum restaurants all line the streets and share the same stunning views.
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