The Bengali Lower East Side
In November 2013, I spoke to Amina Ali Cymbala, whose father Mohamed Ali, was one of a group of Bengali ex-seamen who settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and married within the Puerto Rican community there. Part of our conversation follows below. She also shared a number of photos, included here, including two that show a number of the children of the Pakistan League of America at league events in the 1950s. If you recognize anyone in the photos, please add an annotation.