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Little Odessa on Brighton Beach

Whether I plan on it or not, every one of my trips to New York somehow brings me to Brighton Beach – an area in Brooklyn populated by the Soviet immigrants. Known in popular culture as “Little Odessa” it looks nothing like the original Odessa – a beautiful sunny city on the Black Sea in Ukraine. As a matter of fact it looks just the opposite: tight, crowded,dirty and located under the subway which periodically rattles everyone and everything underneath. Russian is the language around here, Russian stores, Russian food, Russian shows, Russian newsstands, Russian, Russian, Russian… I am not used to people understanding me on the street. I feel out of place. I am from Kansas, I don’t belong, so I have to grab my favorite foods – pirozhki, vareniki, chocolates and quickly return back to sanity.

I’ll be back…

You can read more about it here, here and here.

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