This excellent piece certainly doesn't need any more praise from the PRX Editorial Board. However, my mother is from Brighton Beach and I grew up only 10 minutes walk from there and am, therefore, compelled to chime in.

Little Odessa in Brooklyn does indeed deserve praise. Producer Helen Borten has woven together lively interviewees, music and color into the audiophonic equivalent of the geographical and social eccentricity we locals simply call "Brighton". All the elements are there: the boardwalk, the beach, the el and waves of immigrants.

My only criticism is the half-hour format simply does not support the time-span. Whole decades of events are simply rushed through and glossed over. This is otherwise a polished, professional and gratifying bit of radio that deserves a slot in your programming this Rosh Hashana.