Posted on 29 October 2009. Tags: Washington Heights
Washington Heights Building Battles the Management
by Emma Silvers
For the third day in a row, Henry Brown woke up wanting nothing more than a hot shower. It was a frosty February morning and the hot water would wake him up, maybe make his usual walk through Washington Heights to work at a grocery store a little more comfortable. Testing the bathroom sink faucet at the apartment he has shared with his wife and in-laws for 12 years, Brown was not surprised to find only a thin stream of ice-cold water. It was the same way his day had started the day before, and the day before that.
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Posted in Housing
Posted on 29 October 2009. Tags: Washington Heights
But drug crimes go underground, say residents
By Emma Silvers
In the second half of the 1980s, while President Ronald Reagan was declaring a war on drugs and his wife, Nancy, was touring the country telling kids to “Just Say No,” residents of the northernmost part of Manhattan were deeply entrenched in a drug war of their own. With the George Washington Bridge and the Henry Hudson Parkway providing easy access for out-of-towners looking to get a quick fix, the neighborhood of Washington Heights had become synonymous with one thing: crack cocaine.
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Posted in Crime
Posted on 01 October 2009. Tags: Washington Heights
Washington Heights food pantries coping
by Emma Silvers
October 1, 2009
There is still an hour to go before Wednesday grocery distribution at the Washington Heights Ecumenical Food Pantry, but there are already 15 people in line. A group of middle-aged women chat in Spanish as they wait for the doors to open, their brightly colored push-carts ready to be filled with groceries. An older man sits on the sidewalk with his eyes closed, his back against the wrought-iron gate of the Broadway Temple United Methodist Church, where the pantry sets up twice a week.
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Posted in Hunger
