This was a particularly terrifying gangland style shooting at a public watering hole and there were others critically hurt in the deadly assault. Depictions of such off-ings in movies might seem sickly glamorous to some. You know, Fats Joey sits in a quiet red checkered tablecloth eatery, face to the door, and his assailant enters with guns a-blazin'. Gore pours from the poor goon's head and onto his pasta. Visible splatters on the carefully arranged pictures of the owners with Freckle-Face Freddy and Squeaky Sal and Tony Orlando (with and without Dawn). In reality, as I've noted through the years of morbid fascination with these Brooklyn gang murders, the killer is a shitty shot and terrified and maybe high and he ends up shooting unintended victims and gets sent up river for a long, long time. Or gets off on a technicality. Or the wrong guy gets collared. Or...
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Patch story by Marc Torrence
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Some neighbors smelled a whiff of gentrifier haughtiness, and Ali's responsibly responded with this:
So in January of 2015 the place went from Roti Shop to Roti & Hookah shop, then a Roti & Hookah and Hooch shop. Then it got loud. Then it got REALLY loud - like bang bang bang. The next day it looked like the below.
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That was then, this is now. A new swell looking biz called Tasty has moved in. (Pretty sure this is cousin to another Tasty further down in the 'Bush.)
Sometimes you need a leader to put it all in perspective. Your councilman and mine had a fascinating insight when he stopped by the joint later that day of the early morning shooting, noted at the end of this contemporaneous account.
Councilman Matthieu Eugene stopped by the scene earlier Friday. He said the gun violence is just too much, not only in his district, but everywhere.Amen, Einstein.
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Again, this is racist comment. Mr Thomas is noted for such comments such as "Not in Blackyard 'and attacking 40th City Councilman incumbent Mathieu Eugene as " in a Grey Flannel Suit".Ali's Roti Shop has been a respectable institution.Mr Thomas as a former Iowa resident who is a racist Bigot. My suggestion to him id to leave Flatbush immediatedly
Interesting - I don't recall Q calling Eugene that (or even why he would - what is the connection between a City Councilmember and a 1950s film/movie about a WWII vet dealing with PTSD, corporate America, and family pressures?). Also, considering that the title character is white (played by Gregory Peck in the movie), I don't get the racist angle either, even if he did call Eugene that.
Here's a link for more info on that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_in_the_Gray_Flannel_Suit
Dad!! You old troll, you! I know this is just a ploy to get me to come back home to the "country," but I like it here in NYC! It's very, oh I dunno, what's a good word for it...gritty?
Don't forget to take your pills, dad. And stay off the internets! It's bad for your blood pressure.
btw I loved Ali's Roti. They jumped the shark when they went hookah and paid the piper. And so did a few unlucky patrons.
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