Little Odessa
Brighton Beach, from summer resort to Soviet emigre capital.
By the sea, 1930
Jewish families from the Lower East Side filled new apartment houses by the ocean. In 1930 three in four people mapped here had roots in Eastern Europe.
Fading, 1980
By the 1970s the old residents were aging and the neighborhood was fading. Then the first Soviet Jewish emigres began to arrive.
Little Odessa, 2000
After the Soviet Union fell, tens of thousands followed. In 2000 about 13,000 people of Russian and 7,500 of Ukrainian ancestry were mapped here.
Today
Today people of Ukrainian ancestry, about 8,600, are almost as many as those of Russian ancestry, about 8,900.
Where New York Came From: a map of NYC immigration and ancestry, 1910 to today