Brighton Beach - Notable Residents

Notable Residents

Notable current and former residents of Brighton Beach include:

  • Marat Balagula (born 1943) neighborhood mob boss during the 1980s
  • Eddie Daniels, clarinettist and saxophonist
  • Howard Greenfield (1936–86), songwriter
  • Vyacheslav Ivankov (1940–2009), alleged crime boss
  • Jack Kirby (1917–1994), comic book artist, co-creator of Captain America during the early 1940s and the Fantastic Four, X-Men, and Incredible Hulk in the 1960s
  • Lea Bayers Rapp (born 1946), author, journalist, playwright
  • Lynn Ross (stage name), dancer in original 1957 Broadway production of West Side Story
  • Neil Sedaka (born 1939), songwriter
  • The Tokens, vocal group formed in 1955 at Abraham Lincoln High School
  • Jerome Wurf, U.S. labor leader and president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) from 1964 to 1981.

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