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Much of the signage in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, is written, all or in part, in Cyrillic. The population is Russian and Ukrainian, both Christian Orthodox and Jewish. You don't have to deal with English to get through day-to-day life.                    

STL DPB IN NEW YORK - BRIGHTON BEACH

Day 1 of the New York street photography workshop. We started in Brighton Beach, an Intense neighborhood I never had a reason to visit when I lived here. It's Russian-Ukrainian-Jewish-miscellaneous Middle Eastern. As many signs are written in Cyrillic as Latin characters. When I paid for something in a local shop, the cashier said spasibo - thank you in Russian (one of about four Russian words I know). We had lunch in a Uighur restaurant.

Not sure what these two women are about. Maybe mother and daughter, standing under the Q Line el.