Alaudin Ullah’s quest to find out more about the story of his father, Habib Ullah, Sr., was the beginning point for the documentary film, “In Search of Bengali Harlem”, the book Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, and for this web project. Habib came to the United States some time in the late 1920s, settled on the Lower East Side, and then moved uptown to East Harlem. Here, he met and married a recent immigrant from Puerto Rico, Victoria Echevarria, and the two had a son and daughter, Habib, Jr. and Zubeida. Habib and Victira also opened and ran together one of the earliest Indian restaurants in New York City, the Bengal Garden, in 1948.