In addition to the scores of restaurants that line the main thoroughfare, ranging from Iraqi food to flavoured tobacco shisha to Haagen Daaz ice cream, the area is a functioning market.

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Get a couple scoops of ice cream from one of the area vendors and watch the fireworks display.

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One of the unsuccessful plaintiffs is Dan S. Collins, who owned four ice-cream shops in the Baton Rouge, La. area with an investor group.

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