The struggle to send home Pakistan’s dead on May 3, 2018In the last week of June 2017 on the night before Eid al-Fitr, the annual Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan, the streets of Brooklyn’s Coney Island Avenue were festive, filled with women, men, and children who came out to celebrate the end of the holy month of fasting and the arrival of Eid. […]
Fluctuating futures of New Yorks Pakistani restaurants on September 6, 2017The Pakistani restaurants in Manhattan are thriving while the ones on Coney Island and Foster Avenues, Brooklyn, have to make do with lower profit margins. Interviews with the owners and servers of these restaurants brought up a common theme: customer base. Haandi and Dera are two of the most popular Pakistani places in the city. […]