BRIGHTON BEACH
The shop signs are in Russian and have been for fifty years
Brighton Beach, the boardwalk and who arrived.
2 pieces in this section
- Cyrillic on the shopfronts, and a boardwalk behindSoviet Jewish emigration from the 1970s remade the neighbourhood, and the signage, the food shops and the language on the boardwalk followed.
- The train runs over the high streetThe elevated line darkens the avenue and defines it — commerce, noise and shade all arranged around the steel above.
