Family runs restaurant that annoyed neighbors on ground floor of home

Posted by | September 19, 2016 17:31 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly


Ironically it’s called “First American Fried Chicken”.

Ahmad Khan Rahami, the man wanted in the bombing, is the son of a man named Muhammad Rahami who runs a fast-food restaurant, First American Fried Chicken, in the ground floor of their home on Elmora Avenue, neighbors said.

The restaurant, which has employed Ahmad and some of his brothers, was such a persistent neighborhood nuisance that the city forced it to close early, said Mayor J. Christian Bollwage of Elizabeth.

When it was opened several years ago, it stayed open all night, Mr. Bollwage said.

Neighbors, including Dean McDermott, who lives on the corner of Linden and Elmora Avenues and works as a news videographer, said the restaurant drew rowdy crowds past midnight.

Often Mr. McDermott found patrons loitering in his yard and urinating in his driveway, and he called the police. Others did, too.

Responding to the complaints, the City Council passed an ordinance that would force the restaurant to close at 10 pm, the mayor said.

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4 responses to Family runs restaurant that annoyed neighbors on ground floor of home

  1. amersham1046 September 19th, 2016 at 18:52

    Being rowdy and urinating in his driveway,, those are great American pastimes for 20 somethings every Saturday night

  2. robert September 19th, 2016 at 19:30

    Restaurants close at 10pm yet bars get to stay open past midnight.

    No urinating problems here…move on

  3. halfwayin September 19th, 2016 at 19:46

    The Sopranos had a store in Elizabeth NJ. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/45a61d71862790d7378448a99a842861bfca36059014b10709af24a6c56974b5.jpg

  4. Mike N. September 20th, 2016 at 13:09

    I’ve never seen an all-night fried chicken place, but I really like the idea! But that being said, I probably wouldn’t want to live next door to it either. I once lived next door to a late night lesbian coffee house and there was a lot of noise just because people were coming and going and slamming car doors etc.

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