Anora was filmed on location in New York City, primarily in Brighton Beach, a neighborhood in Brooklyn that is home to a ...

Brighton Beach is the latest star of the silver screen ... Peter Agrapides owns Williams Candy Shop, which has been a staple of the Coney Island boardwalk since 1941. “He’s a carnival guy.

The Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brighton Beach and Coney Island are basking in the glow of Oscar success as "Anora," a film shot in their streets, swept the 97th Academy Awards.

This scene was shot in a candy shop named William's Candy. The shop has been in existence since 1941. In the filming of Anora, candy jars (fake ones) get broken in the process, during a very ...

Transfer to the Q for a few more stops and you're in Coney Island, Brighton Beach's carnivalesque cousin with a 100-year-old wooden roller coaster and colorful boardwalk that forms the people's ...

Spring has returned, which means that the opening of the two major Coney Island theme parks is right around the corner. Luna ...

A 2023 survey of Brighton Beach, Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay shows that around 39% of households include a Jewish person. If casting was key, Ani and her sister Vera (played by Ella Rubin ...

The dramedy tells the story of a young Brighton Beach-based sex worker, Ani, who meets and falls in love with the son of a Russian oligarch while romping through Coney Island and luxuriating in a Mill ...

BROOKLYN, N.Y. (PIX11) — The vibrant Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brighton Beach and Coney Island are basking in the glow of Oscar success as “Anora,” a film shot in their streets, swept the ...