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“Little Pakistan” To Be Co-Named After Founder Of Pakistan

Here’s how the street signs would look like. (Photo via PAYO)DITMAS PARK – The Coney Island Avenue strip between Avenues C and H, also known as “Little Pakistan,” will be co-named “Muhammad Ali Jinnah Way,” after the founder of Pakistan. “This is a really great achievement of the Pakistani-American

Big Story

Fight For Ownership In ‘Little Pakistan’ Continues — This Time Over A Beloved Mosque

Makki Masjid. (Photo: Zainab Iqbal/Bklyner)MIDWOOD – An ivory colored structure stands sandwiched between two typical brick-colored three-story buildings between Avenue H and Glenwood Road on Coney Island Avenue. Though the stores next to it have closed and new ones have opened, Makki Masjid has stayed in that very spot

Central Brooklyn

Literacy Center Serving Pakistani Women Struggles To Remain Open

English literacy students at BRICK. (Photo: Ditmas Park Corner)A program that serves — and empowers — immigrant women in our community may be in danger of closing. The Female Literacy Center [/blog/neighbors/brick-opens-female-literacy-center-in-response-to-the-loss-of-adult-literacy-classes/] housed at Brooklyn Rebuild Immigrant Community and Knowledge (BRICK) [/blog/neighbors/breaking-barriers-new-community-center-aims-celebrate-pakistani-culture-connect-neighbors/] has a funding gap of

Central Brooklyn

People Who Made Ditmas Park Great In 2015

Photo by Ditmas Park CornerAs 2015 comes to a close, we’ve been looking back and thinking about all of the amazing people in the neighborhood that make Ditmas Park such a wonderful place to live. Before 2016 starts off with a bang in both Prospect Park and Coney Island

Central Brooklyn

Pakistani Community Leader Shahid Khan Had A Long Road From Lahore To Brooklyn

Shahid Khan (Photo by Shannon Geis/Ditmas Park Corner)Shahid Khan has become an important local community leader in the past few years. Earlier this year, he opened the BRICK Community Center [/blog/neighbors/breaking-barriers-new-community-center-aims-celebrate-pakistani-culture-connect-neighbors/] . He helps run the Startalk Urdu language program [/blog/education/65-students-graduated-from-summer-urdu-program-on-friday/] for local students, and

Central Brooklyn

Pakistani Community Leader Shahid Khan Had A Long Road From Lahore To Brooklyn

Shahid Khan (Photo by Shannon Geis/KensingtonBK)Shahid Khan has become an important local community leader in the past few years. Earlier this year, he opened the BRICK Community Center [/blog/neighbors/breaking-barriers-new-community-center-aims-celebrate-pakistani-culture-connect-neighbors/] . He helps run the Startalk Urdu language program [/blog/education/65-students-graduated-from-summer-urdu-program-on-friday/] for local students, and recently started

Adult literacy

BRICK Opens Female Literacy Center In Response To The Loss Of Adult Literacy Classes

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