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Communities Unite Against Sandy
By Michael Paterakis | December 3rd, 2012 | 
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Michael Paterakis
SIDE-BY-SIDE: Sandy splintered Brighton Beach's Boardwalk in places, but has helped bring together the neighborhood's Jewish and Pakistani communities.
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For decades, Russian has been the language most spoken in Brighton Beach. Jewish immigrants from the former Soviet Union found in the beachfront community of south Brooklyn – already populated by some 55,000 Holocaust survivors – a safe haven to start their new lives in America.
However, an influx of Pakistanis that started in the early 1990s is now poised to change the demographics of the neighborhood.
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