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Portion of Brooklyn's Coney Island Avenue Named After Pakistan Founder

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The United States has a long tradition of recognizing foreign figures by naming streets after them. Often that's done at the request of an immigrant community with a significant presence in the area. That's the case along of stretch of Brooklyn's Coney Island Avenue in New York City, which has been renamed after the founder of modern Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah. VOA reporter Aunshuman Apte attended the naming ceremony and has this report.

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