visiting New York, we were amused to find in Brighton Beach / Coney Island a concentrated Russian neighborhood (“Little Odessa”): Russian book stores, bars (Rasputin Restaurant), shops, churches – even the beach life was presenting the energy of this community!
title=”Brighton Beach Baptism 12″ – photo by RR’s (Russ Rowland, New York) Snap Shop, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr
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recently I was excited, when the New York times presented the photographer Emine Ziyatdinova (Magnum Foundation) with a perfect photo reportage about the same topic: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/23/brighton-beach-bittersweet/?smid=tw-share “… images, which are by turns melancholy, absurd and funny…”
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die globalisierung ist nicht aufzuhalten
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maybe there are American neighborhoods in Novosibirsk?
title=”Street life” by Valery Titievsky, Novosibirsk, click on the picture to enter his galleries on Flickr
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“nicht aufzuhalten”:
http://store.apple.com/at/browse/home/shop_ipad/compare
das Umsteigen auf iPad vielleicht auch nicht …
ich war vor 12 Monaten noch stolz, dass mein Notebook
via USB-Stick mobile-fähig wurde …
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wow…………….
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the same photographer:
photo by RR’s (Russ Rowland, New York)
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How very colorful in all aspects. 🙂
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when I visited Brighton Beach,
I met this old photographer:
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..meravigliose!!!
Ciao Friz!!!
vento
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Christianity and beaches – for sure that is mixed in your Italy too, semprevento!
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title=”Italians” (diver) by giancarlo rado
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title=”Italians” (sisters) by giancarlo rado
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It sounds very fun.
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I am always amazed at how the demographic of a neighbourhood changes over time (and sometimes not…) – I can’t count the languages around here but apart from English (and French,of course) Russian, Polish, German, Yiddish, Phillipine and Vietnamese would be the top 6 – like a little UN without the bickering and indecision…
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That link was very interesting. Thanks, ft. I’ve never been to Brighton Beach, but it looks like there’s a lot of fun going on there. 🙂
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Very interesting post – never been to Brighton Beach – but I really enjoy visiting ethnic neighborhoods in large cities that I visit – In my eyes there are many positive aspects of these neighborhoods – for example here in Europe is London the rich on opportunities for experiences – Earls Court (australian) – China Town (chinese) – Brixton (afro-caribbean especially Jamaica ) – Golders Green (jewish) – Hackney (vietnamese) – Haringey (turkish, kurdish, cypriot) – Kilburn (irish) – Tooting (indian, pakistani, Bangladesh plus former african colonies) – Notting Hill (afro-caribbean) – Neasden (Little India) and so on… 🙂
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Every time I go to Brighton Beach I come back with a hangover just from watching the Russian diners drink!
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Love the photo… and the shared memory. 😉
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