Inside NYC's Fascinating Russian Neighborhood: Brighton Beach 

🙋🏽‍♀️ Local here: Manhattan beach is way less populated than Brighton and Coney Island, BUT way less enjoyable, I promise even the sand is grittier somehow. Brighton Beach (which i also prefer over Coney Island Beach) has way more food options than Manhattan Beach and you have the convenience of stores to shop at right down the block from the beach. Literally anything you could need: sun block, fresh fruits, sandwiches, beer, water juice, soda, swimsuits, beach toys, towels, pizza, etc is just one block away lol

I grew up in Brighton Beach. From birth 1950 to 1971. It was mostly Jews and Italians back then. My mon lived there till 2010. Corbin would have not been happy. Was a great neighborhood to grow up. Walk to the beach, Coney Island and the playgrounds. Played Basketball at that park you were standing at in Manhattan Beach and the one on Brighton 2nd St constantly. In the 70’s they had this “save Soviet Jewery” and the government let in thousands of Russian and Ukrainian Jews. Eventually taking over the neighborhood. As it is today. Thanks for your work covering NYC.

That pigeon @ 4:35 used to live in Manhattan, got tired of the pollution and noise, and general filth and cost... flew to the beach and never looked back ;)

When I was growing up the nicest beach of the 3 was Manhattan Beach. If you didn’t have a car you could take the Ocean Avenue bus to Emmons and walk the rest of the way.

I saw Tom couple month ago waiting for G Train at 9th and 4th Avenue station, chowing down a sandwich.

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan is a great book and this is a great video.

In the 70s I was a teenager and we had so much fun at Brighton Beach, we would buy a hot bagel and coke by the subway stop. Great times.

Great video Tom, my great grandpa moved to Brighton Beach because of the pogroms, and had a thriving furrier business, great to see some of the sights of the neighborhood, as well as understand the irony of Jewish immigration to this area of NY. Tambien, me encanto tu video de Panama! Soy un "zonian" y los detalles que relatas de Bunau-Varilla son super interesantes! Keep up the good work bud!

Tomdnyc strikes again,,,Fantastic!

You made it look clean… 21:40

Thanks for another great video. Subscribers growing I see! Next up 100k -you deserve it. Thanks for allll the great content!

Hey Tom! What's up? Wow! Really into Coney Island and Brighton Beach! They are nice neighborhoods!

Nice informational video, loved the fun and enthusiasm in presenting content and history. ❤❤😊😊

A Russian accent mixed with a Brooklyn accent is terrifying😱

Brighton Beach has always been in the middle neighborhood. It was never as bad as Coney Island, but was never as good as Manhattan Beach.😂 but I still have love for my neighborhood that I was raised 😂

Another great tour and history lesson.

Ah so that's why Lord of War was the answer to the movie question the other night at Lucky Jack's! Love you Tom!

👍 Thanks Tom 😁

Sick Nicholas Cage cameo! Loved him as Speckles in Disney’s 2009 classic, G-Force!

yo this was amazing! thank you!

Another excellent video.

Another really cool thing about Brighton Beach and Brighton Beach Ave is that the Russian mob movie "Brother 2" (2000) is filmed there and is a cult classic. Also that movie plotline is the inspo for Grand Theft Auto 4. Highly recommend watching brother 1 and 2!

12:18 my grandfather in the 1970's lived in a house just like this on brighton 2nd. would take the f train. it was the days of wicker seats and real metal "straps" the lights would flicker when passing a tie. would walk over to the acquarium and the rides..

Tom when are you doing Philly? We have one or two historical places.

Love these type of videos

I used to live there in the late 00s with my cousin Roman. Good times👍

The dredging of the Sound and the harbor, I just heard about. I had no idea they are so shallow! The harbor is only 25 feet deep? That's a diving pool! Sweaty work, Tom, but it beats lawyering. Keep it up.

nice video man! discovered your channel last year Tom! hope you do videos on California and Texas (and other states) in the future. 😁

FYI, Lake Michigan, which is the lake on which Chicago sits, is the deadliest of the Great Lakes, due to the number of people who have drowned while swimming or boating. There are also many airplanes that have crashed in the lake.

I love your video. Good for you and Rob. Very interesting. You have a great vibration. Blessings.

Went to Lincoln High School. I know there’s a Part 2 to this video. Another great one by the way.

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Another great movie that takes place there is Brighton Beach Memuars, one of the trilogy movies based on plays by, Neil Simon& Jonathan Silverman. Wonderful movie. ❤❤❤

I was born and raised in Queens New York and as a child my family went to Rockaway and Far Rockaway Beach. I also went to Brighten Beach and Coney Island. and we took the safe subways back then to get to Brighten from Queens. As at teen we went to Jones Beach, but it was The Rockaways and Brighten Beach that I as more comfortable with. We were Italian immigrants and back then there was no Russian community in Brighten Beach. It was beautiful back in the 1950s and 1960s. the whole area was family friendly and very home..the best time ever!!!!

I thought he was joking about beaches in Duluth, but apparently there's a Brighton Beach in Duluth Minnesota. Sick Plug Bro!

ooooo my happy place, I'm just going there now

park in the driveway, drive down the parkway. How about the elevated subway?

Brighton Beach the neighborhood that was born and raised wasn’t always Russian used to be a Jewish community when I was a little kid in the 70s and 80s and the Russians started coming

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I luv Brighton Beach and Coney Island ❤

"Austin Corben" is a weird name for John Travolta!

The first immigrant group were not Jewish. If we're going to tell these stories please let's tell them correctly. My family traces our ancestry back to the Dutch colonial period in Gravesend. Some of our ancestors were Lenapehoking/Canarsee but mostly they were of African descent, enslaved by the Lott family. Many of the men served in the Civil War with some returning afterwards. In the late 19th early 20th century they worked at the race track and at the resorts. All of the jockeys, trainers and groomers were Black back then. The Black community was centered around East 15th street where they built a church on East 15th/Avenue X called the First Baptist Mission of Sheepshead Bay in 1899. The church is still there. Brighton has always been diverse. It is important for subsequent generations to know the story of the people who came before them. .

Good video. Brighton Beach is essentially a congested, noisy Russian-speaking ghetto.

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Pretty cool

thank you

OMG…it’s Tommy D…

It seems so quiet

Rockaways next?

Pembroke is Wales, not England.

My parents neighborhood for years and where I grew up for two and a half years and my brother's first few months before moving to North Miami. Sick Plug

Probably not that many buildings in New York that didn't appear in one or another Nicholas Cage film.

Those countries did exist, but were occupied by Russia 🙄

As an Oklahoman, sick Tulsa plug!

Fun fact there were plantations all the way into the 1950s. The late quarterback Steve McNair's mother was born on one. When he got his NFL money, he bought it for her.

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Every time I watch your channel I get pregnant.😍😘

Just like the carrabien.

What kind of husband and wife go to lunch and split the bill? Babe you got the Snapple so you get the tip

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Diversity??? Are you kidding?? Everyone sticks to their own kind mostly.

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...and 10,000 people not gassing their children's air whilst turning their land into a car park".

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I missed the old Coney Island and Brighton beach. Now I wont visit. Dont like the vibe of these people here. Sorry

how irrelevant and insensitive to make a video about russian community when Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine. As someone who is observing hundreds of Ukrainians being murdered every day, seeing the words “fascinating” and “russian” in one sentence shows how huge is the gap between those who experience this war first hand and people who may be supporting Ukraine but do not have direct relation to it. Russian, at least at this moment in history, should be synonymous to murderous, then no one would think of putting it next to the word “fascinating”. Unsubscribed

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What kind of husband and wife go to lunch and split the bill? Babe you got the Snapple so you get the tip