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The closure of Polish Market in Hamtramck earlier this year was yet another sign that demographics have shifted. Now known simply as Fresh Market, the Yemeni-owned grocery store quietly opened ...
HAMTRAMCK (WWJ) - It's the end of the road for the Polish Market store in Hamtramck. A sign outside the building, on Joseph Campau near Caniff, says the closure was "due to circumstances beyond ...
Polish Market in Hamtramck will be closing its doors for the last time on June 12. An employee at the grocery store tells 7 Action News there hasn't been a lot of business at that location.
Since 1922, Hamtramck has always had a mayor of Polish descent, reflecting the city’s makeup as a place for Eastern European immigrants. In 2000, the city was still 23% Polish, but is now only 8 ...
Today, Hamtramck is about 20% Yemeni, 20% Bangladeshi, 20% African American, 13% Polish, and the rest "is made up of everybody in the world," Kowalski said. Those kinds of major population swings ...
The city of Hamtramck is having a moment. Not only is the 2.2-square-mile enclave celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2022, but next week is Fat Tuesday.
Hamtramck, Mich., has long celebrated Fat Tuesday with paczki, Polish pastries. ... Even a Yemeni-owned halal grocery store, which was formerly a Polish market, sells the pastries.
Hamtramck, Mich., used to be mostly Polish. Now, the population has changed, with a growing population of Muslims, coming mostly from Yemen and Bangladesh.
More than any other grocery store or market in Hamtramck, Al-Haramain International Foods represents the cuisines you'll find in the city's kitchens. It's filled with Yemeni, Bangladeshi, Polish ...
Blacks were 14.5 percent of Hamtramck's population in 1960, but only 8.5 percent six years later, noted Damon Keith, now a judge on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
S ix years in the making and more than 1,000 shoe boxes later, Hamtramck’s first microbrewery, Florian East, is set to open on Thursday, August 29, coinciding with the Hamtramck Labor Day Festival.
HAMTRAMCK — Polish up your Polish and head for Hamtramck! Even if you don't have any Polish to polish, you'll enjoy this town that bills itself as "a touch of Europe in America!" And that's ...