Uptown pol wants long-closed George Washington HS pool reopened to serve a ‘desperate’ community | NY Daily News
By Douglas Feiden / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS A giant swimming pool in a Washington Heights high school has been closed for more than 10 years — in a neighborhood with fewer public places for youngsters to swim than any other part of Manhattan. Since at least the late 1990s, the four-lane, 75-feet-long indoor pool [...]
Little affordable housing built in Washington Heights | NY Daily News
By Douglas Feiden / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Building affordable housing for the city’s poor and working families is one of Mayor Bloomberg’s marquee achievements — except in Washington Heights. Only a paltry 139 units of new housing for people of modest means have been constructed in Manhattan north of W. 155th St. between 2004 [...]
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