Sheepshead Bay is a neighborhood in southern
Brooklyn
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,
New York City
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. It is bounded by
Ocean Parkway to the west; Avenue T and
Kings Highway to the north;
Nostrand Avenue and Gerritsen Avenue to the east; and the
Atlantic Ocean
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to the south. Sheepshead Bay is abutted by the neighborhoods of
Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Brighton Beach is bounded by Coney Island proper at Ocean Parkway to the ...
and
Homecrest to the west;
Midwood to the north; and
Gerritsen Beach to the east.
The neighborhood is named after a bay that separates mainland Brooklyn from the eastern portion of
Coney Island
Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, Lower New York Bay to th ...
, which was originally one of the
Outer Barrier
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islands but is now a peninsula. The mouth of the bay is about southwest of
Marine Park.
Sheepshead Bay is part of
Brooklyn Community District 15, and its primary
ZIP Codes are 11229 and 11235.
It is patrolled by the 61st Precinct of the
New York City Police Department
The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement agency within the City of New York, the largest and one of the oldest i ...
.
Politically it is represented by the
New York City Council's 46th and 48th Districts.
History
Fishing and tourism destination
The name "Sheepshead Bay" applies to the neighborhood north of the bay as well as the bay itself. Sheepshead Bay was named for the
sheepshead
Sheepshead, Sheephead, or Sheep's Head, may refer to:
Fish
* '' Archosargus probatocephalus'', a medium-sized saltwater fish of the Atlantic Ocean
* Freshwater drum, ''Aplodinotus grunniens'', a medium-sized freshwater fish of North and Central ...
, an edible fish found in the bay's waters.
Originally an extension of the
town of Gravesend to the west, Sheepshead Bay was a secluded fishing and farming community early in its history.
Starting in the 1840s, residents of Brooklyn and Manhattan were drawn to the community as a summer destination. Hunters and fishermen started coming to Sheepshead Bay and various restaurants and hotels were erected.
Sheepshead Bay's allure as a fishing destination was further helped by the opening of
Ocean Avenue in 1876 and the extension of the
Long Island Rail Road's
Manhattan Beach Branch in 1877–1878, which brought visitors both to the community of Sheepshead Bay and to the
Manhattan Beach resort across the bay. The first of the community's farms was split up into several lots for residential development in 1877.
Three years later the
Sheepshead Bay Race Track opened in the neighborhood, bringing even more visitors during the spring and fall. Near the racecourse, racing investor
William Collins Whitney constructed a raining track.
A "Millionaire's Row" was built on Emmons Avenue east of East 27th Street,
while socialites tended to go to restaurants such as Tappan's.
The track would continue to operate as a horse-racing course until 1910 when horse betting was criminalized in New York state.
Afterward it operated as an auto racing track from 1915 to 1919.
The decline of the Sheepshead Bay Race Track, along with the construction of amusement parks at nearby
Coney Island
Coney Island is a peninsular neighborhood and entertainment area in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bounded by Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach to its east, Lower New York Bay to th ...
and the proximity of Coney Island's attractions to the newly built
subway
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* Subway, a term for underground rapid transit rail systems
* Subway (underpass), a type of walkway that passes underneath an obstacle
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, led to the decline of Sheepshead Bay as a tourist destination.
Passenger rail service on the Manhattan Beach Branch ceased in 1924, and the line was formally abandoned in 1937. The former race track site was subdivided for the construction of housing, and Millionaire's Row was soon lined with bungalows.
The closure of the race track resulted in a plethora of newly vacant plots in the community of Sheepshead Bay, and by extension, an influx of residents.
Filling of creek and waterfront development
The bay itself was originally the easterly entrance to
Coney Island Creek
Coney Island Creek is a tidal inlet in Brooklyn, New York City. It was created from a series of streams and inlets by land filling and digging activities starting in the mid-18th century which, by the 19th century, became a continual strait an ...
, which was long and minimally navigable through the 20th century. A map from 1898 shows that numerous inlets protruded from the bay into the community.
From the late 19th century through the early 20th century there were plans to turn the creek into the ''Gravesend Ship Canal''. The plan including re-dredging the creek into a canal running in a straight east-west line and filling all the marsh land either side of the creek to expand the urban
grid to the edge of the canal. However, this never happened. Squan Creek, a tributary of the Coney Island Creek, ran through the Sheepshead Bay neighborhood. While Squan Creek was infilled in the 1920s, its route is still evidenced by Sheepshead Bay Road's crooked route through the street grid, as well as the presence of several dead-end streets that used to abut the creek's route.
With the development of the Sheepshead Bay community into a residential neighborhood, there were efforts to improve the facilities on the waterfront. The channel of the Sheepshead Bay waterway was
dredged by 1916 to allow fishing boats to dock there; previously these craft had to dock at
Canarsie
Canarsie ( ) is a mostly residential neighborhood in the southeastern portion of Brooklyn, New York City. Canarsie is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek Basin and East 108th Street; on the north by Linden Boulevard; on the west by Ralph A ...
.
In 1922 the
New York City Dock Commission proposed to dredge the bays further, build
bulkheads on the shore, and widen Emmons Avenue on the waterfront from . 25 piers would be built on the south side of Emmons Avenue while 26 buildings, including a new
Lundy's Restaurant location, would be built on the north side.
Residents expressed concerns that the bay might become a commercial shipping port, and local fishermen opposed the city's plan to establish a fish market there. A compromise to use Sheepshead Bay only for private and charter boats was reached in 1929,
and the city built several piers at an angle from the bulkhead to prevent trucks from loading onto these piers.
In 1931, the city condemned several buildings on the bay shore, including the original Lundy's Restaurant, to widen Emmons Avenue.
The
Great Depression delayed further progress, as these buildings would not be destroyed until mid-1934, and construction started on new buildings on Emmons Avenue's northern sidewalk.
At that point a newspaper article noted that Emmons Avenue had been "transformed by attractive looking restaurants and stores." In 1936, the city and the owners of the condemned buildings reached a monetary
settlement, and by the following year, the channel had been dredged and ten docks had been constructed. The filling-in of the central part of the Coney Island during the 1930s, in conjunction with construction of the Shore Parkway portion of the
Belt Parkway
The Belt Parkway is the name given to a series of connected limited-access highways that form a belt-like circle around the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. The Belt Parkway comprises three of the four parkways in what is known as ...
.
Shore Parkway opened in 1941, and soon afterward, the last remaining farms in Sheepshead Bay were redeveloped into residential buildings.
Later development
Sheepshead Bay became populated by Jewish and Soviet immigrants during the late 20th century, similar to neighboring Brighton Beach.
In 1978, in one of the largest disasters in Sheepshead Bay's modern history, six firefighters were killed while fighting the
Waldbaum's supermarket fire. Sheepshead Bay did not undergo the
white flight
White flight or white exodus is the sudden or gradual large-scale migration of white people from areas becoming more racially or ethnoculturally diverse. Starting in the 1950s and 1960s, the terms became popular in the United States. They refer ...
and high crime that afflicted other New York City neighborhoods. Lundy's closed in 1979, resulting in the closure of retail on Emmons Avenue.
After the closure of Lundy's, Sheepshead Bay transformed from a predominantly Irish and Italian enclave into a more racially diverse neighborhood, and the population became increasingly elderly. Recreational fishing along the bay also started to decline in the surrounding community. In the 1970s, the city created a maritime
zoning
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district on Emmons Avenue to promote waterfront development.
In the last decade of the 20th century, a real estate boom brought the reopening of Lundy's Restaurant, which was made a city landmark in 1992. Furthermore,
Loehmann's
Loehmann's was an American retail company which started as a single store in Brooklyn, New York and grew to a chain of off-price department stores in the United States. The chain was best known for its "Back Room", where women interested in fash ...
proposed a store in Sheepshead Bay in 1993, the first major development in the area in several years, though the city rejected initial plans for the development after community opposition. After another proposal for a Loehmann's shopping center was rejected, Mayor
Rudy Giuliani
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's administration approved a smaller version of the shopping center in the late 1990s. Meanwhile, the reopening of Lundy's in 1995 spurred a wave of development on Emmons Avenue. By March 1996, property owners reported that real estate prices had doubled and that vacant apartments were being occupied.
With new development, housing prices in the area increased sharply, and there were concerns about a dearth of parking, since the new developments had collectively resulted in the removal of 2,000 parking spots in Sheepshead Bay.
Also in the mid-1990s, a small amusement park called Fun Time USA opened on Knapp Street, operating for almost 11 years before closing in 2005.
Lundy's closed again in 2007;
a shopping center now takes its place. Soviet-style restaurants/nightclubs, such as Paradise and Baku Palace, have opened along the waterfront.
Sheepshead Bay has also experienced a growth of condominium developments, and on Emmons Avenue, the northern shoreline street along the bay, are piers boasting an active seafood market and tour boats.
Land use
Sheepshead Bay is mostly residential. Low-density, one-and-two-family attached and semi-attached houses are common near the western and eastern edges of the neighborhood. Higher-density
condominium
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s and
co-ops
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are more common near Ocean Avenue, at the center of the neighborhood.
Demographics
Based on data from the
2010 United States Census, the population of Sheepshead Bay was 64,518, a change of −78 (−0.1%) from the 64,596 counted in
2000
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. Covering an area of , the neighborhood had a population density of .
[Table PL-P5 NTA: Total Population and Persons Per Acre – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010](_blank)
Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, February 2012. Accessed June 16, 2016.
The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 68.1% (43,944)
White
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, 6.4% (4,161)
African American
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, 0.1% (43)
Native American, 15.7% (10,135)
Asian, 0% (3)
Pacific Islander
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, 0.2% (152) from
other races, and 1.4% (877) from two or more races.
Hispanic
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The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to viceroyalties for ...
or
Latino of any race were 8.1% (5,203) of the population.
[Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010](_blank)
Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.
The entirety of Community Board 15, which comprises Sheepshead Bay, had 173,961 inhabitants as of
NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 83.7 years.
This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.
Most inhabitants are middle-aged adults and youth: 21% are between the ages of 0–17, 28% between 25–44, and 26% between 45–64. The ratio of college-aged and elderly residents was lower, at 8% and 17% respectively.
As of 2016, the median
household income
Household income is a measure of the combined incomes of all people sharing a particular household or place of residence. It includes every form of income, e.g., salaries and wages, retirement income, near cash government transfers like food sta ...
in Community Board 15 was $61,274.
In 2018, an estimated 19% of Sheepshead Bay residents lived in poverty, compared to 21% in all of Brooklyn and 20% in all of New York City. One in twelve residents (8%) were unemployed, compared to 9% in the rest of both Brooklyn and New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 53% in Sheepshead Bay, slightly higher than the citywide and boroughwide rates of 52% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, , Sheepshead Bay is considered to be high-income relative to the rest of the city and not
gentrifying
Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood through the influx of more affluent residents and businesses. It is a common and controversial topic in urban politics and planning. Gentrification often increases the econ ...
.
In the 2020 census data from
New York City Department of City Planning
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, southern Sheepshead Bay and nearby
Manhattan Beach/
Gerritsen Beach is still an overwhelming majority White population of 40,000 or more residents, between 10,000 to 19,999 Asian residents, and between 5,000 to 9,999 Hispanic residents. Meanwhile the northern section called Madison has between 20,000 to 29,999 White residents and 5,000 to 9,999 Asian residents, while the Black and Hispanic populations were less than 5000 residents each. However, there is a significant concentrated community of Black residents inside the affordable
NYCHA Development, Sheepshead Bay Houses that is located on the borderline of Sheepshead Bay and
Gerritsen Beach, though the housing development also has other diverse racial populations as well.
Ethnic enclaves
There are large populations of Chinese and Soviet residents in Sheepshead Bay.
Brooklyn's
Avenue U Chinatown, which emerged as the second Chinatown of Brooklyn during the late 1990s, is located partially in Sheepshead Bay and partially in nearby
Homecrest. Along the waterfront is a high concentration of
immigrants from the former Soviet Union, including
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and Central Asians, similar to in nearby
Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Brighton Beach is bounded by Coney Island proper at Ocean Parkway to the ...
.
Other ethnic groups in the area include Albanians, Turks and Hispanics.
Police and crime
Sheepshead Bay is patrolled by the 61st Precinct of the
NYPD
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, located at 2575 Coney Island Avenue.
The 61st Precinct ranked 5th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. , with a non-fatal assault rate of 22 per 100,000 people, Sheepshead Bay's rate of
violent crime
A violent crime, violent felony, crime of violence or crime of a violent nature is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the object ...
s per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 200 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.
The 61st Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 88.2% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 1 murder, 17 rapes, 150 robberies, 170 felony assaults, 169 burglaries, 584 grand larcenies, and 72 grand larcenies auto in 2018.
Fire safety
Sheepshead Bay is served by three
New York City Fire Department
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(FDNY) fire stations:
* Engine Co. 254/Ladder Co. 153 – 901 Avenue U
* Engine Co. 246/Ladder Co. 169 – 2732 East 11th Street
* Engine Co. 321/Foam 321/Brush Fire Unit 6 – 2165 Gerritsen Avenue
Health
,
preterm birth
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s and births to teenage mothers are less common in Sheepshead Bay than in other places citywide. In Sheepshead Bay, there were 66 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 12.4 births to teenage mothers per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).
Sheepshead Bay has a relatively high population of residents who are
uninsured, or who receive healthcare through
Medicaid
Medicaid in the United States is a federal and state program that helps with healthcare
Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and ...
.
[New York City Health Provider Partnership Brooklyn Community Needs Assessment: Final Report](_blank)
New York Academy of Medicine
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(October 3, 2014). In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 4%, which is lower than the citywide rate of 12%.
The concentration of
fine particulate matter
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, the deadliest type of
air pollutant, in Sheepshead Bay is , lower than the citywide and boroughwide averages.
Seventeen percent of Sheepshead Bay residents are
smokers, which is slightly higher than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.
In Sheepshead Bay, 26% of residents are
obese, 9% are
diabetic, and 25% have
high blood pressure
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—compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.
In addition, 17% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.
Ninety-three percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is higher than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 70% of residents described their health as "good," "very good," or "excellent," less than the city's average of 78%.
For every supermarket in Sheepshead Bay, there are 25
bodegas.
The nearest large hospital is the
Coney Island Hospital.
Post offices and ZIP Codes
Sheepshead Bay is covered by
ZIP Codes 11229 north of Avenue X and 11235 south of Avenue X. The
United States Post Office
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operates four locations nearby: the Bay Station at 2628 East 18th Street, the Homecrest Station at 2370 East 19th Street, a second Homecrest Station at 2302 Avenue U, and the Nostrand Station at 2934 Avenue X.
Education
Sheepshead Bay generally has a higher ratio of college-educated residents than the rest of the city . A plurality of residents (47%) have a college education or higher, while 15% have less than a high school education and 38% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 40% of Brooklynites and 38% of city residents have a college education or higher.
The percentage of Sheepshead Bay students excelling in math rose from 49 percent in 2000 to 66 percent in 2011, but reading achievement dropped from 54% to 52% during the same time period.
Sheepshead Bay's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is about equal to the rest of New York City. In Sheepshead Bay, 16% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per
school year
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, less than the citywide average of 20%.
Additionally, 82% of high school students in Sheepshead Bay graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.
Schools
Several public schools serve the community:
James Madison High School; JHS 14 Shell Bank Intermediate School;
The Bay Academy; and elementary schools P.S.194 PS 254, PS 206, and PS 52. Private schools in the area include St. Mark Catholic Academy, St. Edmund's School, and the
Brooklyn Amity School.
Kingsborough Community College of the
City University of New York
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(CUNY) is nearby. The former
Sheepshead Bay High School closed in 2016.
Libraries
The
Brooklyn Public Library
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is the public library system of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is the sixteenth largest public library system in the United States by holding and the seventh by number of visitors. Like the two othe ...
has four branches in Sheepshead Bay.
The Sheepshead Bay branch is located at 2636 East 14th Street, near Avenue Z. The branch has occupied four buildings since it was founded in 1903. The current building opened in 1963.
The Kings Bay branch is located at 3650 Nostrand Avenue between Avenues W and X. It opened in 1951, and has occupied its current location since 1959.
The Kings Highway branch is located at 2115 Ocean Ave, just south of the Midwood neighborhood. Originally opened in 1910 as an unstaffed deposit station, it moved several times during the early 20th century before arriving at its current location in 1954. The current building was the first branch library built in Brooklyn by the City of New York. The branch also includes a US Passport Office.
The Homecrest branch is located at 2525 Coney Island Ave, just south of Avenue V.
Madison subsection
Madison is a purely residential subsection of Sheepshead Bay, located just south of Midwood. Named after its own
James Madison High School, its borders are
Kings Highway to the north,
Avenue U to the south,
Ocean Avenue to the west, and
Nostrand Avenue to the east. Madison uses the
ZIP Code 11229. The area is served by
Brooklyn Community Board 15.
Transportation
Public transportation
New York City Subway service to Sheepshead Bay is provided by the
BMT Brighton Line
The BMT Brighton Line, also known as the Brighton Beach Line, is a rapid transit line in the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Local service is provided at all times by the Q train, but is joine ...
(), with local stops at
Avenue U and
Neck Road, and express/local stops at the
Kings Highway and
Sheepshead Bay stations.
New York City Bus
MTA Regional Bus Operations (RBO) is the surface transit division of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). It was created in 2008 to consolidate all bus operations in New York City operated by the MTA. , MTA Regional Bus Operations ru ...
routes in the area include the local buses and the express bus.
Main thoroughfares
The main shopping and business thoroughfares are Emmons Avenue, Sheepshead Bay Road,
Avenue U,
Ocean Avenue, and
Nostrand Avenue. Emmons Avenue is at the west end of the
Shore Greenway which lies between Shore Parkway and Jamaica Bay, connecting eastward and northward to
Canarsie
Canarsie ( ) is a mostly residential neighborhood in the southeastern portion of Brooklyn, New York City. Canarsie is bordered on the east by Fresh Creek Basin and East 108th Street; on the north by Linden Boulevard; on the west by Ralph A ...
and
Cross Bay Boulevard. Emmons Avenue is a waterfront road with piers from which yachts and boats offer day trips for fishing and dancing.
Notable people
*
Stew Albert (1939–2006), early member of the
Yippies and an important figure in the
New Left
The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, environmentalism, feminism, gay rights, ...
movement of the 1960s.
*
Vedah Bertram (1891–1912), actress
*
Elayne Boosler (born 1952), comedian
*
Vitaly Borker
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(born 1986), Internet fraudster
*
James Brady
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(1928–2009), columnist
*
Jerry Butler
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(born 1939), musician
*
Andrew Dice Clay (born 1957), comedian
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Reed Farrel Coleman (born 1956), writer of crime fiction and a poet.
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Alan Dale
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(1925–2002), singer of traditional popular and rock and roll music.
*
Ken Dashow
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, writer, performer and director who is a disc jockey at New York City's
WAXQ "Q104.3"
classic rock
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radio station.
*
Larry David
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(born 1947), comedian
*
Michael A. DiSpezio
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(born 1953), writer, performer and broadcast host
*
James E. Fitzsimmons
James Edward "Sunny Jim" Fitzsimmons (July 23, 1874 – March 11, 1966) was a Thoroughbred racehorse trainer.
Early life
Born in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn in 1874, Fitzsimmons began his career in 1885 working at a racetrack as a stable boy. After ...
(1874–1966), thoroughbred horse trainer
*
Frank Frazetta (1928–2010), comic book artist
*
Keith Green
Keith Gordon Green (October 21, 1953 – July 28, 1982) was an American pianist, singer, and songwriter in the contemporary Christian music genre, who was originally from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, New York. His most notable songs are " There ...
(1953–1982), gospel singer
*
Terry Gross (born 1951), host of ''
Fresh Air
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'' on
National Public Radio
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*
Garland Jeffreys (born 1943), singer-songwriter
*
Vince Lombardi
Vincent Thomas Lombardi (June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970) was an American football coach and executive in the National Football League (NFL). Lombardi is considered by many to be the greatest coach in football history, and he is recognized a ...
(1913–1970), NFL head coach of the
Green Bay Packers
The Green Bay Packers are a professional American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The Packers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. It is the th ...
*
Marty Markowitz (born 1945), former Brooklyn
borough president
*
Lee Mazzilli (born 1955), former
New York Mets
The New York Mets are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. They are one of two major leagu ...
baseball player and coach for the
Baltimore Orioles
The Baltimore Orioles are an American professional baseball team based in Baltimore. The Orioles compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. As one of the American League's eight charter ...
and
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. They are one o ...
*
Richard Migliore (born 1964), retired award-winning thoroughbred jockey and current TV analyst
*
Bruce Morrow (born 1935), radio performer, known for professional purposes as Cousin Brucie or Cousin Bruce Morrow.
*
Rico Petrocelli (born 1943),
Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. Founded in as one of the American League's eig ...
shortstop and third baseman
*
Thomas Pitera (born 1954), Italian mobster, grew up in Sheepshead Bay.
*
Buddy Rich
Bernard "Buddy" Rich (September 30, 1917 – April 2, 1987) was an American jazz drummer, songwriter, conductor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the most influential drummers of all time.
Rich was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York ...
(1917–1987),
jazz drummer and bandleader.
*
Mark Roth (born 1951), professional bowler who is second in all-time professional tour earnings.
*
Judy Sheindlin (born 1942), former
family court
Family courts were originally created to be a Court of Equity convened to decide matters and make orders in relation to family law, including custody of children, and could disregard certain legal requirements as long as the petitioner/plaintif ...
judge, known on television as ''
Judge Judy
''Judge Judy'' is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by former Manhattan Family Court Judge Judith Sheindlin. The show featured Sheindlin as she adjudicated real-life small-claims disputes within a simulated court ...
''.
*
Martin Shkreli (born 1983), pharmaceutical entrepreneur and convicted felon.
*
Joe Tacopina (born 1966), lawyer and owner/chairman of Italian soccer club
Venezia F.C.
*
Bob Thiele (1922–1996), record producer, musician and songwriter
*
Michelle Trachtenberg (born 1985), actress
Politics
The neighborhood is part of New York's
8th
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
In mathematics
8 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2.
* a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number ...
,
9th, and
10th
10 (ten) is the even natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, by far the most common system of denoting numbers in both spoken and written language. It is the first double-digit number. The rea ...
congressional districts, respectively represented by Democrats
Max Rose
Max N. Rose (born November 28, 1986) is an American military officer and politician who served as a United States representative from New York for a single term from 2019 to 2021. A moderate Democrat, he served on the committees for Homeland Sec ...
,
Yvette Clarke, and
Hakeem Jeffries
Hakeem Sekou Jeffries (; born August 4, 1970) is an American politician and attorney and leader-elect of the Democratic caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives. Jeffries has represented New York's 8th congressional district, anchored in s ...
.
It is also part of the 17th, 19th and 27th
State Senate districts, represented respectively by Democrats
Simcha Felder
Simcha Felder (born December 30, 1958) is an American politician from Borough Park, Brooklyn. He represents the 17th district of the New York State Senate. Felder has been elected to multiple offices as a Democrat, but is known for having cauc ...
.
Roxanne Persaud,
Andrew Gounardes, and
Diane Savino. In addition, Sheepshead Bay is covered by 41st and 45th
State Assembly
State Assembly is the name given to various legislatures, especially lower houses or full legislatures in states in federal systems of government.
Channel Islands
States Assembly is the name of the legislature of the Bailiwick of Jersey. The Baili ...
districts, represented respectively by Democrats
Helene Weinstein and
Steven Cymbrowitz
Steven H. Cymbrowitz (born November 14, 1953) is a former Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing Assembly District 45, which consists of Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach and Midwood, among other communities located in th ...
.
Sheepshead Bay is located in New York City's 48th
City Council
A municipal council is the legislative body of a municipality or local government area. Depending on the location and classification of the municipality it may be known as a city council, town council, town board, community council, rural counc ...
district, represented by Republican
Inna Vernikov. It is served by
Brooklyn Community Board 15.
Brooklyn Community Boards
, New York City. Accessed December 31, 2007.
See also
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References
External links
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Albanian-American culture in New York City
Central Asian American culture in New York (state)
Neighborhoods in Brooklyn
Populated coastal places in New York (state)
Russian communities in the United States