Sunset Park view of harbor
— — the harbor laid out the way a child draws it.
Not only on a wall.
“A 24-acre park on the highest natural ground in Brooklyn, looking west across the harbor to the Statue of Liberty and Lower Manhattan. The hill is steep enough that the city falls away below you, container cranes and rooftops and water all at once. The neighborhood around it is the working Chinese and Latino half of southwest Brooklyn, with bakeries and fruit stands along 5th Avenue. Best near the end of the day, when the harbor turns copper and the skyline lights come up. From the studio.
Sunset Park view of harbor, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Sunset Park is a 24.5-acre park in southwest Brooklyn, bounded by 5th and 7th Avenues between 41st and 44th Streets, and it sits on the highest natural ground in the borough at about 200 feet of elevation. The hill gives an unobstructed western view of New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, and the Lower Manhattan skyline. It opened in 1891 and is managed by NYC Parks. The surrounding neighborhood takes its name from the park itself, a reversal of the usual order.
The view runs due west over the harbor, which is why the place is called Sunset Park. In summer the sun sets behind Bayonne and Staten Island; in winter it tracks south behind the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which opened in 1964 and frames the lower half of the view. The harbor reads copper and then violet for about forty minutes before the Lower Manhattan towers light up, and the order of that sequence is the thing the park is built around.
The park is open daily, 6 a.m. to 1 a.m., free, and reached by the N or R train to 45th Street, then three blocks east and uphill. Inside the park, an outdoor pool built by Robert Moses and the Works Progress Administration in 1936 still operates in summer. The 5th Avenue side, two blocks downhill, is Brooklyn's Chinatown along with strong Mexican and Central American bakeries, taquerías, and fruit markets between 39th and 60th Streets.