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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
Sheepshead Bay is a neighborhood in southern Brooklyn, New York City. 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 to the south. Sheepshead Bay is abutted by the neighborhoods of Brighton Beach 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, which was originally one of the Outer Barrier islands but is now a peninsula. The mouth of the bay is about 1.0 mile (1.6 km) 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. Politically it is represented by the New York City Council's 46th and 48th Districts.
Notable people with ties to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- Herbert L. Abrams (1920-2016), medical doctor, who was involved in the anti-nuclear movement
- Percy Adamson, soccer player
- Stew Albert (1939-2006), early member of the Yippies and an important figure in the New Left movement of the 1960s
- Leroy J. Alexanderson (1910-2004), US naval officer, ship's captain
- Vedah Bertram (1891-1912), actress
- Elayne Boosler (born 1952), comedian
- Vitaly Borker (born 1986), Internet fraudster
- James Brady (1928-2009), columnist
- Jerry Butler (born 1939), musician
- Andrew Dice Clay (born 1957), comedian
- Reed Farrel Coleman (born 1956), writer of crime fiction and a poet
- Alan Dale (1925-2002), singer of traditional popular and rock and roll music
- Ken Dashow, writer, performer and director who is a disc jockey at New York City's WAXQ "Q104.3" classic rock radio station
- Larry David (born 1947), comedian
- Michael A. DiSpezio (born 1953), writer, performer and broadcast host
- James E. Fitzsimmons (1874-1966), thoroughbred horse trainer
- Frank Frazetta (1928-2010), comic book artist
- Louis Gossett Jr. (born 1936), actor
- Keith Gottfried (born 1966), strategic business advisor
- Keith Green (1953-1982), gospel singer
- Terry Gross (born 1951), host of Fresh Air on National Public Radio
- Garland Jeffreys (born 1943), singer-songwriter
- Howard Kurtz (born 1953), journalist and author and host of Media Buzz on Fox News
- Margarita Levieva (born 1980), actress
- Vince Lombardi (1913-1970), NFL head coach of the Green Bay Packers
- Marty Markowitz (born 1945), former Brooklyn borough president
- Lee Mazzilli (born 1955), former New York Mets baseball player and coach for the Baltimore Orioles and New York Yankees
- Winsor McCay (c. 1866/1871-1934), cartoonist and animator
- Anthony Melchiorri (born 1965), hospitality expert and television personality, who is the creator, co-executive producer, and host of the Travel Channel show Hotel Impossible
- Richard Migliore (born 1964), retired award-winning thoroughbred jockey and current TV analyst
- John Mooney (born 1966), union leader
- Bruce Morrow (born 1935), radio performer, known for professional purposes as Cousin Brucie or Cousin Bruce Morrow
- Don O'Kelly (1924-1966), actor
- Donna Pescow (born 1954), film and television actress and director, known for her role as Annette in the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever
- Rico Petrocelli (born 1943), Boston Red Sox shortstop and third baseman
- Thomas Pitera (born 1954), Italian mobster
- Rockets Redglare (1949-2001), character actor and stand-up comedian
- Buddy Rich (1917-1987), jazz drummer and bandleader
- Adam Richman, actor and television host of various dining and eating-challenge programs, including Man v. Food
- Mark Roth (born 1951), professional bowler who is second in all-time professional tour earnings
- Gene Russianoff, staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign
- LaVerne Sewell (1888-1906), jockey
- Judy Sheindlin (born 1942), former family court judge, known on television as Judge Judy
- 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
- Glenn Thrush (born 1967), journalist, correspondent
- Michelle Trachtenberg (born 1985), actress
- Bradley Tusk (born 1973), businessman, venture capitalist, political strategist and author
- Kelly Wallace (born 1966), journalist
- Keith Leveret Wauchope (1941-2021), diplomat
- Sherry Yard (born 1964), chef, restaurateur and cookbook author