Throngs of demonstrators marched through the normally sleepy streets of Sheepshead Bay to protest plans for a family homeless shelter — as locals claimed the city pulled a bait and switch to … ...

Brownstoner takes on Brooklyn history in Nabe Names, a series of briefs on the origins and surprising stories of neighborhood nomenclature.. The Astor Cup auto race at the Sheepshead Bay Race Track in ...

The neighborhood and the bay took their name from the sheepshead, a saltwater fish found in the bay’s waters. These fish were abundant off the shore until population numbers declined during the ...

Sheepshead Bay was named for the bay’s native sheepshead fish, Gravesend — Brooklyn’s only settlement with English roots — derives either from the town of s’Gravenzande, Holland, or Kent England’s ...