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Brownsville. We are falling back with you all morning long. Yeah, that's right. So we're on your block right now on Rockaway Avenue and News. Julia Joseph joins us now from Loma and she's bringing us that authentic Spanish food. We all need to start our morning with Julia. Exactly, guys. And I have this steaming hot man right in front of me. But before we dig in, we're going to introduce you to me. She's been working here about a year now and you said around 12 0 clock, the rush of customers is just something else. Yes. And here it's overwhelming. We have a lot of customers. We've been here for 30 years and they love our traditional of which is our mango and the Tres golpe. Uh We also have tradition of our roast pork, chicharron. We serve rice and peas and all the other traditional things of Dominican Republic. And you even introduced me earlier to this incredible oatmeal guys. There's cloves and cinnamon, but first, most importantly, the mango. Let's try that right now. Cheers. Cheers. Best way to start your morning guys. Come on down to Brownsville. We're on Rockway Avenue. We'll be here all morning. Sa Christy, come down to Loma.

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Are you hungry? Well, I'm assuming that's a yes. So it's time to catch up with these Julia Joseph. Yeah. She is falling back with us all morning and she's in Brownsville right now. She's getting her fix at Loma. So Julia, you're not full yet. What are you eating? Now? I'm not full yet guys. Of course not because I got Mina here. She's been making sure we are very well fed all morning shows, which we got. All right. Well, here in Loma restaurant, we have our traditional meals. We have our yellow rice with chicharron and, and our lemon, which we put on the top. Then we have hot wings, some and onions. Our traditional sweet plantains, our famous fried chicken that always moist and inside and crispy outside. And our traditional avocado salad, the famous fried chicken. We've already seen customers coming in today just saying they want that for breakfast. You guys make it. Well, what we do with the first is that we, it, we season it boil it after it's cooked. Then we deep fry it and that's why it comes out moist in the top. And that would be the same thing. With the chicken. So we season it, batter it fry it and it's always juicy inside and crispy on the outside. Looks amazing, guys, doesn't it? So, come down to Loma restaurant. All right, we need it to go, we need it to go back from there. Bring it back.

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Brownsville. We're on your block this morning on Set Avenue. Tasting all of the good the neighborhood has to offer you. Julia Joseph brings us to our next spot. Now, it's called Blends and Julia, who's with you now? Well, guys, I'm here with Past and Boba. It's a family dynamic duo. They have a whole combination of family here and Blend. They started in a great way. Give us a little bit of the back story for 10 years and we all good and l three options in the neighborhood like smoothies like as like salmon burger salad. All the good things that it was hot in the neighborhood to find. Yeah, you said originally you came to Brownsville and you didn't see much on Sutter Avenue and you came up with these smoothies now, Baba tell me what's in these smoothies right now. Be blueberry Sea Moss and some strawberry and all super healthy. The best way to get a little health boost for our morning. So the Ginger and the, it's a little tasty too. So cheers Baba cheers guys. Delicious. And here's your health guys back to you.

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We're falling back with you in Brownsville today highlighting all of the unique gems that Brownsville has to offer you. Julia Joseph joins us now from JT and embroidery shop on Avenue that has called the borough home for over 20 years. Now. Now, Juliet looks like you're in the middle of it all really well here in the middle of the embroidery center at, with the one and only owner Julian whose passion for graphic design and computers started this store. Julian, tell us about this incredible place you got with my passion for computer. I decided to just do graphic design and used to do flyers for friends of mine. And while I was doing the flyers, someone came to me and said to me, Julian, can you put a picture on a T shirt? I had no idea how that worked. So I said, you know what, let me give it a shot. I took it on to me and I just love the whole idea of it and I just haven't stopped since you guys are a big client of the Department of Education here in New York City. And you also work with a lot of nonprofits and do some pretty interesting work. Yes. Uh, we work with a company called Man Up Inc is in East New York. It is one of our biggest client. Well, guys, if you ever need anything embroidered clearly, we know the right spot to go. We are Julian T Printon 1533 Picking Avenue in Bronxville, Brooklyn. Highly recommend checking it out guys back to you.

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