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 [...]
Baseball Coach Steve Mandl Suspended Before a Hearing Is Held | NY Times
By JIM DWYER One more time, at the end of another high school championship baseball game, Steve Mandl was floating around a ballpark, perched on the shoulders of whooping players last June. He had taken this victory ride before: In 27 years, Mr. Mandl, the coach of the George Washington High School baseball team in [...]
At George Washington, a New Team Steps Into the Starting Blocks | SchoolBook
By Chelsia Rose Marcius In the long shadow of the former George Washington High School, three girls and three boys jogged around the school track, their shoes pounding the slick wet red rubber. A few other runners stretched their quads or timed their sprints nearby as they prepared for a meet Friday at the Armory [...]
The World’s Most Expensive 'Coño'
BY Led Black (@Led_Black) Washington Heights’ history teacher, Carlos Garcia, will now think twice before uttering the infamous c-word (‘coño’) ever again. Carlos ‘Coño’ Garcia, who has been a teacher for 17 years, was suspended for several months from his teaching duties at the High School of International Business and Finance popularly known as G-Dubs [...]
Manny Ramirez, the High School Legend | NY Times
By SARA RIMER Published: April 25, 2011 Hero. Cheat. Prodigy. Ingrate. Free spirit. Knucklehead. Hall of Famer. Pariah. Enigma. Manny Ramirez, one of the great right-handed hitters of his generation, who retired from baseball this month after once again testing positive for performance-enhancing drugs, was many things to many people — fans and family and [...]
UNDER THE BRIDGE, UPTOWN!
By: M.Tony Peralta In 1989, I was a freshmen at George Washington H.S. aka DUBS. That year Manny Ramirez was a senior and in my weight training class. Rumors of the Notorious Decepticons making there way to Dubs to start some trouble would circulate, members of the Wild Cowboys would come after school in there [...]
HELLBOY WENT TO G.DUBS
Thats right, Ron Perlman…Actor who plays HellBoy! was in BladeII and was the “Beast” in the Beauty and the Beast TV show….was born in Washington Heights. While living uptown he attended G.Dubs. So, the next time you see him, ask him, Why the “HELL” hasn’t he been back to visit.
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