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Brighton Beach is featured in the 2005 drama Lord of War starring Nicolas Cage, where the protagonist and his family immigrated to from Ukraine in order to escape the Soviet Union. [86] The film Anora (2024) is set against the backdrop of Brighton Beach, which is the Russian-speaking, Uzbek-American protagonist's hometown. [87] Literature:
New York City is home to the largest Russian or Russophone population in the Western Hemisphere. The largest Russian-American communities in New York City are located in Brighton Beach and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn. Brighton Beach has been nicknamed Little Odessa due to its population of Russian-speaking immigrants from the former Soviet Union ...
Sean Baker's new movie views the south Brooklyn Russian immigrant neighborhood through a tender lens
Borough Park [6] (also spelled Boro Park [7] [8]) is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn, in New York City.The neighborhood is bordered by Bensonhurst to the south, Dyker Heights to the southwest, Sunset Park to the west, Kensington and Green-Wood Cemetery to the northeast, Flatbush to the east, and Mapleton to the southeast.
Brooklyn's Avenue U Chinatown, which emerged as the second Chinatown of Brooklyn during the late 1990s, is located partially in Sheepshead Bay and partially in nearby Homecrest. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] Along the waterfront is a high concentration of immigrants from the former Soviet Union , including Russians and Central Asians, similar to in nearby ...
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Gravesend is a neighborhood in the south-central section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the southwestern edge of Long Island in the U.S. state of New York.It is bounded by the Belt Parkway to the south, Bay Parkway to the west, Avenue P to the north, and Ocean Parkway to the east.