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  2. Brighton Beach - Wikipedia

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    718, 347, 929, and 917. Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline. [ 3] Brighton Beach is bounded by Coney Island proper at Ocean Parkway to the west, Manhattan Beach at Corbin Place to the east, Sheepshead Bay at the ...

  3. BMT Brighton Line - Wikipedia

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    The BMT Brighton Line, also known as the Brighton Beach Line, [ 2] is a rapid transit line in the B Division of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn, New York City, United States. Local service is provided at all times by the Q train, but is joined by the B express train on weekdays. The Q train runs the length of the entire line from Coney ...

  4. Russian Americans in New York City - Wikipedia

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    Brighton Beach had a re-growth, after being a neglected area of Brooklyn. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the "Fourth Wave" of Russians had a larger share of ethnic Russians and Russian Christians who immigrated to the United States with the largest number going to the New York metropolitan area. Majority of the Russian ...

  5. Brighton Beach station (BMT Brighton Line) - Wikipedia

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    Brighton Beach. / 40.577598; -73.961565. Q (all times) The Brighton Beach station is an elevated express and terminal station on the BMT Brighton Line of the New York City Subway. It is located over Brighton Beach Avenue between Brighton 5th Street and Brighton 7th Street in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. The station is served by the Q train at all ...

  6. Ocean Parkway station - Wikipedia

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    Ocean Parkway. / 40.576252; -73.968587. The Ocean Parkway station is an express station on the New York City Subway 's BMT Brighton Line. It is located at Brighton Beach Avenue and Ocean Parkway in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. The station is served by the Q train at all times. [ 5]

  7. Brighton Beach Memoirs - Wikipedia

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    Brighton Beach Memoirs is a semi- autobiographical play by Neil Simon. [1] The play is a coming-of-age comedy [2] focused on the main character of Eugene Morris Jerome, a Jewish teenager [3] from a Polish immigrant family. [4] It is set in September 1937 in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York [5] during The Great Depression. [6]

  8. Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn - Wikipedia

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    Area code. 718, 347, 929, and 917. Sheepshead Bay is a neighborhood in southern Brooklyn, New York City. It is bounded by Ocean Parkway to the west; Avenue T and Kings Highway to the north; Nostrand Avenue and Gerritsen Avenue to the east; and the Atlantic Ocean to the south. Sheepshead Bay is abutted by the neighborhoods of Brighton Beach and ...

  9. BMT Franklin Avenue Line - Wikipedia

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    What is now the Franklin Avenue Line was part of the modern-day Brighton Beach Line until 1920, when the two lines were split north of Prospect Park. [2] [3] The Brooklyn, Flatbush, and Coney Island Railway (BF&CI), which built the Brighton Line, was incorporated in 1877 in order to connect Downtown Brooklyn with the hotels and resorts at Coney Island, Manhattan Beach, and Brighton Beach.