Hidden along Coney Island Avenue in Brooklyn is a neighborhood shaped by decades of Pakistani migration: Little Pakistan.
In this episode of Little Worlds, we walk through one of New York City’s most important Pakistani communities—from halal markets, mosques and jewelers to Pakistani restaurants, traditional clothing shops and Muhammad Ali Jinnah Way.
But Little Pakistan has a deeper story.
After September 11, fear, immigration enforcement and uncertainty shook the community. Families left, businesses struggled, and a neighborhood that had taken decades to build faced an uncertain future. Yet Little Pakistan survived and rebuilt.
Today, Coney Island Avenue remains a place where Pakistani immigrants and visitors can find familiar food, language, worship and community thousands of miles from Pakistan.
This is the story of how immigrants turned a stretch of Brooklyn into a world of their own.
This is Little Worlds. Because every street tells the story of another homeland.
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