Category:Sheepshead Bay United Methodist Church

The Sheepshead Bay Methodist Episcopal Church was built in 1884, through the generosity of John Y. McKane, a leader in the old Town of Gravesend. Two years later, the adjoining parsonage was built. In those days the area was a resort village of hotels, a racetrack and theaters for the well-to-do. As Brooklyn's Gold Coast (as it was called) faded, Sheepshead Bay become home to fishermen and commuters. By the 1980s demographics changed dramatically due to an influx of Asian and, later, Russian Jews in the neighborhood. In 2011, the frame Victorian Gothic building is home to a Korean congregation and the steeples are slated to be removed due to structural issues.

After Hurricane Sandy the church basement was flooded with six feet of water. The church pastor Sharon Pettgrave-Cundy, said the basement is shared by outreach ministries, Alcoholics Anonymous and Gamblers Anonymous, a Boy Scout troop and the Korean youth program of the church, all of which lost books and materials in the flooding. After the storm, the church was also without electrical power and heat. [1]

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