The beach is referred to as Glass Bottle Beach, but the water next to it is known as Dead Horse Bay. The reason being that before cars, when horse-drawn carriages were the main mode of transport, dead and dying horses had to be disposed of somewhere. In Brooklyn, they were usually taken there to be disposed of and their hooves were rendered into glue. It's not uncommon to find large horse bones on the beach alongside all of the old glass bottles and leather shoes.