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4 unusual facts about Brighton Beach


Aron Magner

On October 16, 2010 Magner married Angelika Bekerman, formerly of New York, NY, in Brighton Beach, after a proposal earlier that year at New York City’s “public piano” in Herald Square that was featured in New York Magazine.

BMT Lexington Avenue Line

Arrangements were made with the LIRR for joint tickets to Manhattan Beach, as well as with the Grand Street, Prospect Park and Flatbush Railroad (Franklin Avenue Line of streetcars) and Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway (Brighton Beach Line) to Brighton Beach.

Brighton, New York

Brighton Beach is a community on Coney Island in the borough of Brooklyn, New York City.

Miller Brothers 101 Ranch

Later in 1907, the Miller Brothers 101 Ranch Wild West Show began the tour circuit in Brighton Beach, New York.


BMT Brighton Line

It was an excursion railroad — the Brooklyn, Flatbush and Coney Island Railway — to bring beachgoers from downtown Brooklyn (via a connection with the Long Island Rail Road) to the seashore at Coney Island on the Atlantic Ocean, at a location named Brighton Beach at the same time the railroad arrived.

David Storobin

David Storobin (born 1979) is a New York Attorney and a former New York State Senator who represented District 27 in the New York State Senate, which includes the neighborhoods of Borough Park, Midwood, Bensonhurst, Brighton Beach, Kensington, Bergen Beach, Mill Basin, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, and Manhattan Beach, among others.

Michael Chaim Nelson

Michael Chaim Nelson is a Councilman representing the New York City Council's 48th District, covering the Midwood, Sheepshead Bay, Homecrest, and Brighton Beach sections of Brooklyn.


see also

Amy McAllister

Amy's other theatre work includes Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Don Juan Comes Back from the War, The Tinker's Wedding, and The Way Home by award-winning writer Chloe Moss.

Gay Divorce

To take his mind off his lost love, his friend Teddy Egbert, a British attorney, takes him to Brighton Beach, where Egbert has arranged for a "paid co-respondent" to assist his client in obtaining a divorce from her boring, aging, geologist husband Robert.

Second, Minute or Hour

The music video shows the singer running along the raised section of promenade on Brighton Beach.