Hamtramck
Why Detroit-Area Dive Bars Are Serving Some of the Best Food Around
The pop-ups in the bars of Hamtramck—a tiny, dense, and poor immigrant enclave physically surrounded by Detroit—offer real eating at a low price in a city otherwise short on culinary variety and cash.
Muslim Ice Cream Truck Drivers Claim They're Being Targeted by Racist Police in Michigan
A pair of ice cream truck drivers in Hamtramck, Michigan charge that police treated them "like dogs" after they were falsely arrested and detained for two days without being given anything to eat or drink.
Paczki Day Is a Celebration of Fried Dough and Booze
Paczki is Poland’s richer cousin of the jelly donut, eaten on Fat Tuesday and always with copious amounts of beer. In the Michigan town of Hamtramck, some shadier characters even head to the bar bathrooms to powder up a cocaine paczki.
FBI Charges Michigan Man for Alleged Facebook Threats Against NYPD Officer Who Used Chokehold on Eric Garner
The 29-year-old from the Detroit area is accused of threatening to behead Officer Daniel Pantaleo, and faces a five-year felony charge.