Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach, also referred to as Little Odessa, or Little Russia, is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline.
Brighton Beach, also referred to as Little Odessa, or Little Russia, is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, within the greater Coney Island area along the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Brighton Beach is bounded by Coney Island proper at Ocean Parkway to the west, Manhattan Beach at Corbin Place to the east, Sheepshead Bay at the Belt Parkway to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the south along the beach and boardwalk.
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Worth seeing in and around Brighton Beach
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge connecting the boroughs of Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, New York, U.S. It spans the Narrows, a body of water linking the relatively enclosed New York Harbor with Lower New York Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the only fixed crossing of the Narrows.
7.8 km · bridge in New York City · Wikipedia - 02Prospect Park
Prospect Park is a 526-acre urban park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The park is situated between the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Flatbush, and Windsor Terrace, and is adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, Grand Army Plaza, and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
9.1 km · public park in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia - 03Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a public university in Brooklyn in New York City, New York. It is part of the City University of New York system and enrolled nearly 14,000 students on a 35-acre campus in the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn as of fall 2023.
5.7 km · senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn · Wikipedia - 04Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a botanical garden in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. The botanical garden occupies 52 acres in central Brooklyn, close to Mount Prospect Park, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Museum.
9.8 km · botanical garden in Brooklyn, New York City · Wikipedia - 05Lesbian Herstory Archives
The Lesbian Herstory Archives is a New York City-based archive, community center, and museum dedicated to preserving lesbian history, located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The Archives contain the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians.
9.3 km · archive, history museum in Brooklyn, New York · Wikipedia - 06Luna Park
Luna Park was an amusement park that operated in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States, from 1903 to 1944. The park was located on a site bounded by Surf Avenue to the south, West 8th Street to the east, Neptune Avenue to the north, and West 12th Street to the west.
1.6 km · 1903 Coney Island amusement park · Wikipedia
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Getting to Brighton Beach
- Airports
- John F. Kennedy (JFK), 17 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 22 km · LaGuardia (LGA), 23 km
- Stations
- Floyd Bennett Field, 6 km · 25th Avenue, 3 km · Bay 50th Street, 2.3 km · 18th Avenue, 4.7 km · Bay Parkway, 3.8 km
- Philadelphia → Brighton Beach124 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · $12–17
- Hartford → Brighton Beach170 km · quickest by road, 3h 35m · $16–22
- Albany → Brighton Beach231 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · $21–28
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Brighton Beach
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Brighton Beach. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe [http://www.nywatertaxi.com Water Taxi, at Fulton Ferry Landing, provides service from various points in Manhattan along the East River.
- Get inThe Water Taxi has service between southern Manhattan and Red Hook, often used by customers of the Red Hook Ikea.
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Next door to Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach is 8 km from Brooklyn, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Brooklynborough of New York City, New York, United States7.9 km
- Coney Islandcoastal neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA2 km
- The Narrowsstrait in New York City, USA8.3 km
- Crown Heightsneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, USA9.3 km
- Bensonhurstneighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City, United States4.4 km
- Flatbushneighborhood in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States6.7 km