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Please add profiles of people who were born, lived or died in (or were notable for their ties to) Brighton Beach, Brooklyn.
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. 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 Belt Parkway to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south along the beach and boardwalk.
It is known for its high population of Russian-speaking immigrants, and as a summer destination for New York City residents due to its beaches along the Atlantic Ocean and its proximity to the amusement parks in Coney Island.
Brighton Beach is part of Brooklyn Community District 13, and its primary ZIP Code is 11235. It is patrolled by the 60th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Politically, Brighton Beach is represented by the New York City Council's 48th District.
Notable people with ties to Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, from Wikipedia:
- Marv Albert (born 1940), sportscaster
- Marat Balagula (1943-2019), neighborhood mob boss during the 1980s
- Herbert Berman (1933-2014), politician who served on the New York City Council
- Gail Brodsky (born 1991), professional tennis player
- Adele Cohen (born 1942), member of the New York State Assembly, representing the 46th district, from to 1998 to 2006
- Eddie Daniels (born 1941), clarinettist and saxophonist
- Neil Diamond (born 1941), songwriter, musician artist grew up in Brighton Beach
- Disco Freddy (also called Larry the Unbelievable), a notable character on the Riegelmann Boardwalk during the late 1970s through the early 1980s
- Jane Freilicher (1924-2014), representational painter of urban and country scenes
- Howard Greenfield (1936-1986), songwriter
- Alfred Harvey (1913-1994), founder of Harvey Comics
- David B. Hollander (1913-2009), longest active pulpit rabbi in America
- Vyacheslav Ivankov (1940-2009), alleged crime boss
- Jack Kirby (1917-1994), comic book artist, co-creator of Captain America during the early 1940s and the Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Incredible Hulk in the 1960s
- Sergei Kobozev (1964-1995), Russian boxer
- Arthur Miller (1915-2005), writer
- Lea Bayers Rapp (born 1946), author, journalist, playwright
- Vladimir Reznikov, Russian-American hitman, murdered outside of the infamous Odesa Restaurant in 1986
- Gene Russianoff, chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, a public transport advocacy group that focuses primarily on subway and bus services run by New York City Transit
- Neil Sedaka (born 1939), songwriter
- Seymour Siwoff (1920-2019), president and chief executive of the Elias Sports Bureau for seven decades
- Boris Thomashefsky (1866-1939), Ukrainian-born Jewish singer and actor who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theatre
- Willi Tokarev (1934-2019), Russian-American singer and songwriter
- The Tokens, vocal group formed in 1955 at Abraham Lincoln High School
- Jerry Wurf, (1919-1981) labor leader and president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) from 1964 to 1981
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