Everything about Brighton Beach totally explained
Brighton Beach is a community on
Coney Island in the
borough of
Brooklyn in
New York City.
Location
It is bounded by Coney Island at
Ocean Parkway to the west, affluent, but non-gated
Manhattan Beach at
Corbin Place to the east,
Gravesend at
Neptune Avenue to the north (at the
Belt Parkway), and the
Atlantic Ocean to the south (at the Riegelmann Boardwalk/beachfront).
Education
Brighton Beach, like all of New York City, is served by the
New York City Department of Education. Affluent Manhattan Beach, New York is zoned to
PS 225 The Eileen E. Zaglin School
for grades K-8, as well as
PS 100 The Coney Island School located on Brighton Beach and West 3rd for grades K-5 and
P.S. 253 The Magnet School of Multicultural Humanities.
Nearby high schools include:
History
Brighton Beach was developed by
William A. Engeman as a beach resort in 1868, and was named in 1878 by
Henry C. Murphy and a group of businessmen in an 1878 contest; In
2006,
Alec Brook-Krasny was elected for the 46th District of the
New York State Assembly, the first elected
Soviet-born
Jewish politician from Brighton Beach.
Brighton Beach is home to many other
ethnic groups. On Brighton 7th Street and Neptune Avenue, there's a
mosque where Muslims (mostly from
Pakistan and
Bangladesh) pray, and another between Brighton 8th Street and Banner Avenue known as Al-Arqam. Nearby areas are sometimes called "Pakistani Brighton". There are numerous
Polish, self-styled
Russian (most are actually Jews) and
Georgian residents, but relatively few Italian-Americans or African-Americans remaining. There are also some
Korean markets, but for the most part their owners don't reside in the neighborhood. Notable past residents include
talk-show host
Larry King and current General Bancorp President Adnan Mohammad.
Brighton Beach is replete with restaurants, food stores, cafes, boutiques, banks, etc., located primarily along Brighton Beach Avenue and its cross streets. The neighborhood, with an estimated population of 350,000 (mostly from
Russia and
Ukraine), has a distinctively ethnic feel – akin to
Manhattan's
Chinatown. The proximity of Brighton Beach to the city's beaches (Brighton Beach Avenue runs parallel to the
Coney Island beach area and the Boardwalk) and the fact that the neighborhood is directly served by the
Brighton Beach Avenue subway station, makes it a popular summer weekend destination for thousands of New York City residents.
In popular culture
The movie Little Odessa is set in Brighton beach
The Neil Simon play, Brighton Beach Memoirs, which won two Tony awards in 1983, is set against the backdrop of Brighton Beach in 1937.
In Darren Aronofsky's 2001 movie, Requiem for a Dream, the character Sara Goldfarb (played by Ellen Burstyn) lives in an apartment on Brighton 6th Street.
In the movie Lord of War, the main character, Yuri Orlov, played by Nicholas Cage, lives in Brighton Beach.
In the songs "Hey Pete" and "Xero Tolerance" by Type O Negative, Brighton Beach is mentioned as the place where Pete is going to kill his cheating girlfriend. The D-train is his means of transportation in these songs.
The French electronic music group Telepopmusik has a song on their album Angel Milk entitled Brighton Beach.
In the 2007 crime drama, We Own the Night, the character Bobby Green, played by Joaquin Phoenix, is the manager of a nightclub in Brighton Beach.
Brighton Beach is also featured in the 1990s Russian spy-comedy with the extra long title - There's Good Weather in Deribasovskaya, It's Raining Again in Brighton Beach
In the Russian crime film Brother 2, Danila, the protagonist, comes to Brighton Beach from Russia where he buys a car from a Russian Jew.
In Every Laugh A Tear (Lesléa Newman) takes place partly in Brighton Beach
In the 2000 novel Vector by Robin Cook, disillusioned former Russian biochemical worker Yuri Davydov develops weapons-grade Anthrax in the basement of his Brighton Beach home.
Brighton Beach is where Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character Neil McCormick was taken to be beaten and raped in 2004 film, Mysterious Skin.
In the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV, Brighton Beach is represented by the neighborhood of "Hove Beach." This is presumably a reference to the fact that Brighton in England has a well known beach of its own, which runs directly into that of neighbouring Hove.Further Information
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