Bill Kubota

Oct 1, 2024 | bridgedetroit.com | Bill Kubota |Christine Ferretti

The Avenue of Fashion in northwest Detroit has a storied past. High end clothiers set up shop near Seven Mile Road and Livernois Avenue, becoming a destination for shoppers after World War II. The district’s decline started a couple decades later. Now, a surge of new restaurants and specialty shops have filled vacant storefronts in the area, and many are Black-owned businesses. Algernon Bartell, owner of the Times Square Men’s Custom Clothing Store, set up shop on the Avenue in 2010.

Jun 11, 2024 | bridgedetroit.com | Bill Kubota |Christine Ferretti

The origin of Detroit’s Coney Island hot dogs goes back more than 100 years, thanks to some Greek immigrants who ventured first to Coney Island New York, sampled hot dogs there, came to Detroit and started selling them. But Coney Island hot dogs in some other parts of the state have a very different origin. Michigan Coney dog historian Dave Liske calls coney dogs a state of mind. “I eat coneys all over the country.