Business
The block of Coney Island Avenue, near Glenwood Road, on which Pearl Travel was located. (Photo: Google Maps)A local travel agent has been indicted for defrauding area taxi cab drivers, home health aides, postal workers and Uber drivers who paid for travel packages and plane tickets that never materialized.
Adult literacy
Council member Mathieu Eugene at the ribbon cutting for BRICK’s Female Literacy Center. (Photo via BRICK)The Brooklyn Rebuild Immigrant Community and Knowledge (BRICK) has opened a Female Literacy Center at the BRICK Community Center [/blog/neighbors/breaking-barriers-new-community-center-aims-celebrate-pakistani-culture-connect-neighbors] (920 Foster Avenue near East 10th Street) in response to the
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The annual Chand Raat Bazaar [https://www.facebook.com/ChandRaatBaazar2013/photos/a.498102473603540.1073741827.496372903776497/859186104161840/?type=1] from the American Council of Minority Women [https://www.facebook.com/pages/American-Council-of-Minority-Women/184700428254744] will take place on Thursday, July 16 starting at 5pm on Coney Island Avenue between Foster Ave and
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams
Standing in front of a poster that read “the smallest coffins are the heaviest,” neighbor Tahir Rajput glanced at the sea of candles behind him and, like so many others at yesterday’s vigil for the victims of the horrific attack in Peshawar, Pakistan that killed at least 132 school
Pakistan Independence Day
Music, food, and many a reveler will fill Coney Island Avenue, between Avenue H and Newkirk Avenue, this Sunday for the annual Brooklyn Mela [/blog/holidays/taking-a-bite-out-of-brooklyn-mela], which celebrates Pakistan’s independence day. Sponsored by the Pakistani American Merchants Association, the festival [https://www.facebook.com/events/145217995560969/] will be
Pakistani community
Matt Apuzzo [https://twitter.com/mattapuzzo] and Adam Goldman [http://www.ap.org/company/careers/ap-staff-goldman-adam]‘s forthcoming book, Enemies Within: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spying Unit and bin Laden’s Final Plot Against America [http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-Within-Inside-Against-America/dp/1476727937], exposes more details about the NYPD’s
Brooklyn Mela
The annual Brooklyn Mela took place on Sunday afternoon celebrating Pakistani independence, culture and people with thousands of visitors from around the metro area. Below the cut are pictures and experiences from the event. The Council of Peoples Organization draped their building in an enormous American flag. The clothes on