Read Corey Kilgannon's story: Pepe's Tire Shop in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, fixes flats for $6 apiece and is usually swarming with people trying to get patched up and back on the road.
Yesterday afternoon, flats were still being fixed, but a more pressing task was at hand: watching the opening day World Cup match between Ecuador and Poland.
Pepe's is in a heavily Polish section of Greenpoint, where the beer halls were filled with Polish-speaking locals cheering for their national team and drinking strong Polish beer.
But at Pepe's, the fan base was more evenly matched. It has to do with the boss. The shop is owned by Pepe Palaguachi, an Ecuadorean immigrant whose Ecuadorean friends and Spanish-speaking employees mix with the predominantly Polish clientele.
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