Neighbors stunned
whose mother had lived across from the Ullah home for 44 years.
“Never seen him with any friends or being sociable with anyone. He was a loner.”
Another neighbor, Kisslyn Joseph, 19, said she’d heard a loud argument early Sunday morning coming from the family’s home. She wasn’t certain who was speaking, but heard cursing.
“I heard him pacing early in the morning, around 2:30 a.m. or 3, when the snow was falling,” said Joseph, who moved next-door to Ullah’s home a month ago. “I could hear somebody on the phone and it was kind of strange.”
Ullah prayed regularly the Masjid Nur Al Islam mosque on Church Ave. at Chester Ave. in Kensington, but one member of the mosque said he hadn’t seen Ullah there in several months, The New York Times reported.
Cat Mara, who works at a real estate company on the block, said Ullah kept to himself.
“He never talked to anybody, but he always seemed like he had something on his mind,” Mara, 63, said. “As he’s walking, he’s staring straight ahead instead of talking to people. Not even a hello. He was always by himself..”
Several neighbors said they felt sorry for Ullah’s family.
“It’s going to turn their lives upside down,” Shawnda Chapman Brown, 39, said. “Now people are looking at you like you’re a threat to the neighborhood when you’re just trying to live your life. They just seem like a normal family.” A PIPE BOMB explosion in a subway passageway at the Port Authority Bus Terminal comes amid ISIS calls to attack Times Square during the Christmas season. Akayed Ullah, 27, was inspired by the terror group, sources told the Daily News. The bomb was partially detonated on Monday as he walked through the subway tunnel about 7:20 a.m. Islamic State media published a chilling photo of a Santa Claus standing in Times Square next to a crate of dynamite. “We meet at Christmas in New York . . . soon,” reads a message across the photo. Times Square is one of several locations ISIS supporters highlighted ahead of the holiday season, along with London, Paris and the Vatican.