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Church Avenue Bakery's Haitian Patties offers some of the most tantalizing Haitian patties in Florida. They are basically a puff pastry biscuit, stuffed with a variety of fillings, including ground beef, chicken, spinach, mixed with stewed vegetables, and flavored with scotch bonnet, a Haitian seasoning. Also on the menu are soups, bread, teas, coffee, and cookies.

Patrons say Church Avenue Bakery's Haitian Patties puts a spoonful of love into every item they make.

1917A Church Avenue - Brooklyn, New York
718-282-2456

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Family Recipes make La Baguette a Traditional Favorite

La Baguette, an American-Caribbean bakery, is a family-owned and -run full-service bakery and lunch spot. Established more than 20 years ago, many of their breads and pastries are made from generation-old family recipes.

A run-down of offerings include their famous patties (chicken, beef, and cod fish,); croissants, fresh wheat hero and wheat Creole breads; carrot, pound, and butter cream cakes; turnovers, cookies, soups (split pea, minestrone, lentil spinach, chicken), and wheat and oatmeal porridges.
Stop by to experience their attentive service and Haitian hospitality.

La Baguette Shop
191-09 Jamaica Ave
Jamaica, NY 11423
Tel: 718-468-2525

La Baguette Shop
7915 Flatlands Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11236
Tel: (718)676-1790

La Baguette Shop
229-24 Linden Blvd
Cambria Heights, NY 11411
Tel: 718-977-1169

La Baguette Shop
2705 Church Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11226
Tel: 718-282-4221

La Baguette Shop
1836 Rockaway Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11236
Tel: 718-758-4330

La Baguette Shop
1028 Nostrand Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Tel: 718-363-0944

La Baguette Shop
191-09 Jamaica Ave
Jamaica, NY 11423
Tel: 718-468-2525
 
La Baguette Shop
2705 Church Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11226
Tel: 718-282-4221
 
La Baguette Shop
1836 Rockaway Pkwy
Brooklyn, NY 11236
Tel: 718-758-4330
 
La Baguette Shop1028 Nostrand Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11225
Tel: 718-363-0944
 
Grand Opening!
La Baguette Shop
1855 Nostrand Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11226
Tel: 347-955-5559

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Le Bon Pain's Savory Light Fare is located in Queens Village, features light fare, appetizers and desserts, perfect for office parties and art gallery receptions.

A small-scale catering service, Le Bon Pain features their house specialty, beef patties that are encased within a flaky biscuit. Order a dozen and you'll pay only $6.

Other items include seafood and chicken pies. For sweets, carrot cake with cream cheese frosting is a popular choice. And at a cost of $5 you can feed 10 people.

211-65 Jamaica Ave -
Queens Village, New York 11428
(718) 464-8160

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Here is a picture where several Dominicans in New York City are Protesting Haitian Deportations in Dominican Republic.

On Wednesday, June 17, 2015, the Dominicans living in New York came out in a move of solidarity and protest against a controversial Dominican court ruling supporting a debatable immigration policy which may render thousands of Dominican-Haitians stateless. The demonstrators assembled outside their Dominic consulate near the Time Square to show their stance against the anti-racism policy. A 2013 ruling has retroactively changed the nationality criteria for those born to immigrant parents in Haiti since 1929. The ruling was enacted in May 2014 and it allowed the susceptible Dominicans a time limit to establish their citizenship, which expired on June 17, 2015. One of the demonstrators, when asked, has described this move by the Dominican government as unprecedented because there is no other government in the world which could ever do this and it is more surprising because all the international bodies are mum on this. Some of the New York City's elected leaders and officials came out in support of these Dominican-Haitians. Mayor Bill de Blasio, in a statement, has called on the Dominican government to respect and guarantee basic rights to all.

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Here is a picture of assemblywoman, Rodneyse Bichotte.

Rodneyse Bichotte sworn in. She has become New York's first Haitian-American assemblywoman. Mayor Bill De Blasio, Bichotte's biggest supporter, performed the swearing-in ceremony for the new 42nd Assembly District representative. Bichotte is replacing Rhoda Jacobs, a 37-year veteran of the Assembly.

Bichotte trounced democratic candidate Rickie Tulloch for the seat, winning by 82% of the vote.

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Here is a picture of a major fire that took place in Queens on December 31, 2014. Louise Jean-Charles, husband Napoleon Michel, along with relative Nadia Donnay, all died in a fire that started as the family was preparing heir traditional Soup Joumou to celebrate Haiti Independence

A kitchen fire erupted at 11:45 p.m. in New York City's Elmhurst neighborhood, killing a Haitian couple and their cousin. Louise Jean-Charles, 59, and her husband Napoleon Michel, 69, became trapped inside their apartment. By the time fire crews arrived and rescued them, all three had suffered cardiac arrest.

The incident began when a pot of soup not attended to ignited a fire, quickly spreading to the dining room, living room, hallway, and bathroom, ending in the back bedrooms. When the firefighters entered they discovered the couple in the bedrooms. The cousin, Nadia Donnay, 37, was found jammed behind the door of the apartment. The three, who might've survived, could not be reached immediately because firefighters had to fight the blaze in the rooms leading to the bedrooms first.

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Abner Louima is a Haitian who was born in Thomassin, Haiti, in 1966. He was trained as an Electrical Engineer, but in 1997, he used to work as a security guard in a water and sewage plant in Flatlands of Brooklyn. He was married, had one child and was living in the Brooklyn area for past six years. On August 9, 1997, Louima visited a popular nightclub "Club Rendez-Vous" in East Flatbush. Unfortunately, late in the night after visiting the club, he and some other fellow party-goers got in the middle of a brawl between two women. The police was called and several officers from the 70th Precinct were dispatched to the scene. The way police responded to the incident, instigated a large scuffle between the civilians and the officers. Officer Justin Volpe, the leader of the police incorrectly assumed Louima had struck him with a sucker-punch. Officer Volpe, along with his other officers named Charles Schwarz, Thomas Wiese and Thomas Bruder, brutally attacked and beat Louima with their fists, nightsticks and two-way radios while taking him to the police station on a number of charges, like, disorderly conduct, obstructing government administration, and resisting arrest. In the police station at 70th Precinct, when Louima was handcuffed with hands behind his back, he was sexually assaulted in a bathroom. Volpe squeezed and kicked his testicles and shoved a wooden broom handle into his rectum. After the incident, Louima was taken to the emergency room of Coney Island Hospital where his escorting officers reported his injury as "a result of homosexual activity".

On March 29, 1999, jury selection began in the federal trial against the five cops indicted in the Abner Louima torture case. Officers Justin Volpe, Thomas Bruder, Charles Schwarz, and Thomas Wiese were charged with several counts of violating Louima's civil rights. A fifth cop, Michael Bellomo, had been charged with lying to cover up the incident.

Although, a decade and a half has passed since the brutal beating and savage sexual assault of NYPD', the incident is still remembered as a case that scarred both the city's race relations and its police force for years.

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Here is a picture of Michaelle Solages. She is an Haitian-American elected to New York State Assembly.

When, in 2012 following the disaster that was Hurricane Sandy, newly elected New York State Assembly member Michaelle Solages diverted her attention from her win to helping those affected by the natural disaster, she showed the people-oriented type of assembly member she would be. At the time, not only was she the first elected Haitian-American to be appointed onto the assembly, she was also one of many diverse candidates that year to be successful on the November 6 elections.

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Here is a picture of Rodneyse Bichotte. She became the first Haitian-American woman to be elected to the New York State Assembly. Not only did she win, she did it by a landslide with 90 percent of the votes over Republican Matthew Williams and Conservative Brian Kelly.

The 42nd Assembly District, the largest Haitian community in New York City, has appointed one of its own as District Leader, making Statecommittee woman Rodneyse Bichotte the first ever woman of Haitian-American birth to be elected in New York City. Using her enviable educational background, Bichotte worked as an investment banker then tackled city issues like finding funding for healthcare, education and job programs. The busy Bichotte sits on the Habitat for Humanity NYC board, among others, and her new appointment sees her representing the communities of Midwood, Ditmas Park, Flatbush and East Flatbush.

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This is quite a sad story. A Haitian family in Long Island is going through one of the terrible tragedies. In a car accident that took place last Saturday, a mother, grandmother and her three children were killed in in a car crash as they were on the way home from a family party.

Police reported all five people died including Myriam Lebrun, Lebrun's mother Moise Yolande, three children: Marcus Jeanty, 14, Marcel Jeanty, 9, and Kayla Jeanty, 8

three children in a fiery car crash Saturday night in Babylon, Long Island, police said. Myriam Lebrun, 37, of Brooklyn, was driving west on the Southern State Parkway with her three children and their grandmother, when the car veered off the highway between exits 38 and 39, state police said.

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