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Hamtramck Council Member Khalil Refai reveals the new street sign during a ceremony for the renaming of Holbrook Street in Hamtramck to Palestine Avenue on Thursday, March 7, 2024, at the corner of Holbrook Street and Gallagher Avenue. The nation’s first and only all-Muslim city council voted to rename Holbrook Avenue, one of Hamtramck’s main arteries as Palestine Avenue, in reaction to the Israel-Hamas war for the first time in Michigan history that a street had been renamed in support of Palestinians. The road was originally named after Dewitt Holbrook, a 19th-Century lawyer who owned a farm not far from this very spot. The name had stuck for about 125 years.