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Brighton Beach is one of the last “old world” communities in New York City, serving immigrants since the early 1900's, when the first wave of European/Russian émigrés settled here. Today, it is still a community of émigrés - a neighborhood that encompasses people of almost every region of the world. Brighton Beach is one of the largest Russian communities in the United States. The area in southeast Brooklyn bordering Coney Island - is also known as "Little Odessa". 150,000 Soviet emigrants, mostly former inhabitants of Odessa, settled there in the last 25 years, having radically altered the face of that "old world" New York neighbourhood, once nicknamed "a retired poor man's Miami Beach".
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