Hove Beach

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South Hove Beach, as viewed to the northeast from the mouth of the Humboldt River. The Broker Bridge passes over the neighbourhood.

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Mohawk Avenue, located under a stretch of the 3/8 Broker Line, serves as one of Hove Beach's major thoroughfares.

Hove Beach is a neighborhood in southern Broker, Liberty City. It is bordered to the northeast by the Algonquin-Dukes Expressway (South Slopes); to the north by Gibson Street (Outlook); to the northwest by Cisco Street and Delaware Avenue (East Hook); to the west by the Humboldt River; to the south by Crockett Avenue (Firefly Island); and to the east by Onondaga Avenue (Firefly Projects). It is the biggest neighborhood in Broker and has a very large population of Eastern European immigrants.

Niko Bellic's first home and safehouse is in his cousin Roman's apartment in Hove Beach.

Influence

Hove Beach is based off of Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood. This is in reference to Hove, England's proximity to, and relationship with, neighboring Brighton. The two, having city status, are officially known as Brighton and Hove.

People and places of interest

Aside from Niko's aforementioned cousin, Roman, Vladimir Glebov owned a bar in the neighborhood. Mikhail Faustin and his partner, Dimitri Rascalov could of controlled a large part of Hove Beach, as Dimitri takes Niko to threaten a shop owner for not cutting them in on the profits of the pornography he is making.

Hove Beach contains several places of interest. The Perestroika cabaret club is located in the northern end of the neighborhood, on Tulsa Street. Mohawk Avenue, one of the neighborhood's main drags, is home to a Russian-owned clothing store at its intersection with Bart Street. Also on Mohawk Avenue are the neighborhood's police precinct (at Oakley Street), Vladimir Glebov's Comrades Bar, and The 69th Street Diner (both also at the Bart Street intersection).

Transportation

The Liberty City Subway serves the neighborhood. The eponymous station is located at the intersection of Wappinger Avenue and Crockett Avenue. The 3/8 Broker Line serves the station, providing service to Francis International Airport and Algonquin.