Brighton Beach

Brighton Beach is a neighborhood in the southern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, along the Coney Island peninsula and facing the Atlantic Ocean. It is known for its high population of Slavic immigrants and their descendants, and as such a large portion of its commercial businesses are geared towards that demographic. However, as it also contains Coney Island and a large eponymous beach area, Brighton Beach serves as a tourist and general New Yorker holiday destination as well. This latter type of visitors is often to the chagrin of the Slavic locals, especially those associated with Bratva Oktyabrya.

Despite what the New York Police Department would claim, Brighton very poorly protected by 'New York's Finest', due in part to the presence of the Bratva (who keep their own order) but also to heavy anti-Slavic and lingering anti-Soviet biases. Those officers that do maintain legal order in the area tend to do more to protect tourists and visitors from other sections of New York rather than the local Slavic population.