Brighton beach Travel

Brighton beach

Brighton seashore was developed by William A. Engeman as a beach option in 1868, and was named by Henry C. Murphy and a group of businessmen in an 1878 contest; the captivating name evoked the resort of Brighton, England.
The showpiece of the option was the large Hotel Brighton (or Brighton seaside Hotel), placed on the beach at what is now the foot of Coney Island Street and accessed by the Brooklyn, Flatbush, and Coney Island Railway, later identified as the BMT Brighton Line, which opened on July 2, 1878. After a series of chill storms threatened to swamp the hotel, an audacious plan was urbanized to move the 5,000 ton hotel in one piece 520 feet further inland by placing railroad track and 112 railroad flat cars under the raised 460 ft. by 130 ft. building and using six steam locomotives to pull it away from the sea. Designed by B.C. Miller the move was begun on April 2, 1888 and continued for the next nine days, life form the largest building move of the 19th century.
Adjacent to the hotel, Engeman built the Brighton beach Race Course for Thoroughbred horse racing. The village was annexed into the 31st Ward of the City of Brooklyn in 1894.
Brighton beach was re-urbanized as a fairly dense residential community with the final rebuilding of the Brighton seashore railway into a modern rapid transit line of the New York City Subway system c. 1920. The subway system in the neighborhood is above ground on an elevated structure (the "El").
The years just previous to and following The Great Depression brought with them a neighborhood consisting mostly of first and second generation Jewish-Americans and, later, a number of focus camp survivors.[citation needed] Notable establishments included Diamond's (a small clothing store owned by the parents of Neil Diamond), Irving's Deli, Mrs. Stahl's Knishes and The Famous, a kosher restaurant. The summer time would bring the crowds, and many world renowned celebrities, to the Brighton seaside Baths (Private seaside Club) and the surrounding public beaches.
Today, the area has a large community of Jewish immigrants who left the Former Soviet Union between 1970 and the present day. Some non-Jewish immigrants, such as Armenians and Georgians, have also settled in Brighton seaside and the surrounding neighborhoods, taking advantage of the already established Russian-speaking community.
Among the charitable organizations serving the Russian-speaking community is the Russian Community Life Center, which provides a assortment of classes and applications.