May 31, 2011
Some read the “The Weekly Bangla Patrika,” a Bangladeshi newspaper that, alongside images of Will and Kate’s wedding, printed a photograph allegedly of the dead Osama bin Laden after he was killed. The headline: “The War Is Not Against Islam.” On the back page of the same issue was a blurb about a Bangladeshi cabdriver who drove two passengers 2,800 miles from New York to Los Angeles for $5,000. In the basement, room has been made for prayer mats among boxes of potato chips and Snapple.
Paul Hiebert on Mott Corner, where NYC's Bangladeshi cabbies go to eat, unwind and have a taste of home.