Closing Bell: Brooklyn Filipino History 101

Popular Filipino restaurant Purple Yam did some digging on their blog after they stumbled across “a 1938 photo of Filipinos enjoying themselves at Manila Restaurant located on 47 Sands St.” (Pictured to the left.) The photo was a product of FDR’S WPA, which hired writers and photographers to document life around the US during the Depression. It documented that “around Sands and Washington Streets is a colony of Filipinos; native food, extremely rare in the eastern part of the United States, is served in a Filipino restaurant at 47 Sands Street.” Read more on the Purple Yam blog about the unexpected heritage of Filipino cooking in Brooklyn.