Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach is a community on Coney Island in the southern part of the borough of Brooklyn , New York City . It currently has an estimated population of 150,000.
Brighton Beach is bounded by the community of Coney Island to the west, Manhattan Beach to the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the south.
history
Brighton Beach was founded in 1878 as a beach and holiday resort and named after the famous English seaside resort of Brighton . The center of the resort was the large Brighton Hotel (or Brighton Beach Hotel) on the part of the beach that now forms the end of Coney Island Avenue, accessible via Brooklyn, Flatbush and the Coney Island Railway, then as now under the name Brighton Beach Line , which went into operation on September 2, 1878.
In the period that followed, a horse and dog race track , a variety theater , theater and casinos were built.
The Brighton Beach Baths opened in 1907 and the New Brighton Theater two years later. Unfortunately, the baths were destroyed by a fire in 1911, and another fire in 1919 from the Brighton Beach Hotel then cremated much of the once great summer community. But in the same year the first Yiddish theater was built and the New Brighton Theater became famous with performances by George Jessel , Eddie Cantor , Al Jolson , Will Rogers , Adele and Fred Astaire , the Marx Brothers and Douglas Fairbanks . The Brighton Beach Baths were also rebuilt and had up to 10,000 members at their heydays in the 1950s and 1960s.
Brighton Beach was then redesigned around 1920 as a densely populated community for residents, mainly by converting the Brighton Beach railroad into a modern subway line of the New York Subway system. In 1938, contractor Robert Moses bought the entire beach (about five miles) from private owners for $ 75,000 and donated it to the City of New York.
The first immigrants were refugees who successfully escaped the oppression of European fascism in the 1930s and 1940s. The community now consists mostly of Russian , Ukrainian and Jewish immigrants who immigrated from Russia to the USA in the early 20th century and later from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the immigration of former Soviet citizens increased in the early 1990s. Until his arrest by the FBI in 1995, the notorious Mafia boss Vyacheslav Ivankov lived in Brighton Beach. The streetscape today is mainly characterized by the many Russian restaurants and grocery stores, which also earned the quarter the nickname Little Odessa . In addition to the Russian immigrants, many Georgians , Armenians , Pakistanis , Afghans , Poles , Hispanics and Turks have also moved here to this day. Brighton Beach is said to have similarities to Manhattan's Chinatown due to this particular multicultural influence .
In the media
Brighton Beach is also present in the media. Brighton Beach was one of the central locations in films like Little Odessa , Requiem for a Dream or Lord of War - Dealer of Death . In the computer game Grand Theft Auto IV , a large part of the plot took place in the virtual Brighton Beach, which is called "Hove Beach" there.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 35 ′ N , 73 ° 58 ′ W