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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