We were in school when happened, that was the worst. “It was going to be my second visit but it never happened. The towers stood above all five boroughs until they one day no longer did.Ī week before the attacks, Mohamed’s family was supposed to visit the towers, one of which had an observation deck that drew 1.8 million visitors annually. With his brother, he soon began spending his weekends working at a deli that his uncle had owned since the eighties.įrom Red Hook, Mohamed was easily able to see the World Trade Center. In 1999, Mohamed and his brother, sister and mother moved to the US to join his stepfather, initially settling down at Nostrand and Atlantic Avenue in northern Brooklyn. At one point, Taiz was Yemen’s cultural capital, known for its production of Mocha coffee, white mosques and Jabal Saber – one of the country’s highest mountains, peaking at 10,000ft (3,000 meters) above sea level. For the first 10 years of his life, Mohamed lived in Taiz, the third-largest city in Yemen, situated at the southern tip of the Red Sea. Amassing millions of social media followers for his creations, Mohamed has come to reaffirm how New York’s immigrant-run bodegas serve more than just their local communities.īrooklyn was not always home for Mohamed. To his internet fans across the world, Mohamed is the New York deli guy with flamboyant recipes.
To the neighborhood, Mohamed is a beloved member of the Red Hook community.
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