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A Near-Extinct Language Finds a Home in One Brooklyn Building

The apartment building, in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, is a hive of nationalities.

The apartment building, in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, is a hive of nationalities. A Pakistani woman entered the elevator on a recent afternoon with a big bag of groceries, flicking a dupatta over her shoulder as a Nepalese nurse and the janitor, a man from Jamaica there to mop up a spill, followed her in. ...

Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi for The New York Times

The apartment building, in Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood, is a hive of nationalities. A Pakistani woman entered the elevator on a recent afternoon with a big bag of groceries, flicking a dupatta over her shoulder as a Nepalese nurse and the janitor, a [...]




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