Here we consider the degenerate Bernstein polynomials as a degenerate version of Bernstein polynomials, which are motivated by Simseks recent work Generating functions for unification of the multidimensional Bernstein polynomials and their applications([15,16]) and Carlitzs degenerate Bernoulli polynomials. We derived thier generating function, symmetric identities, recurrence relations, and some connections with generalized falling factorial polynomials, higher-order degenerate Bernoulli polynomials and degenerate Stirling numbers of the second kind.