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
Looking east along Brighton Beach Avenue from the corner of Coney Island Avenue
West Brighton, Brooklyn, c. 1872 – c. 1887
The "Millennium Theater", now the "Master Theater" and NetCost supermarket
Russian stores in Brighton Beach
Evsei Borisovich Agron was a Soviet-American mobster and boss of New York City's Russian mafia during the 1970s and 1980s. Known for his cruelty, he was called the "Godfather" of the Russian American
Agron in the early 1980s