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OnPoint NYC is a New York City nonprofit that operates two privately run safe injection sites (also known as Overdose Prevention Centers) in East Harlem and Washington Heights. [2] Placed at the sites of existing syringe service programs, [3] these were America's first safe injection facilities when they opened in November 2021. [2]
Washington Heights is a neighborhood in the northern part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.It is named for Fort Washington, a fortification constructed at the highest natural point on Manhattan by Continental Army troops to defend the area from the British forces during the American Revolutionary War.
The George Washington Bridge connects Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan across the Hudson River to Fort Lee, New Jersey, and is the world's busiest motor vehicle bridge. [2] [3] In the late 19th century, the IRT Ninth Avenue Line and other elevated railroads brought people to the previously rustic Upper Manhattan.
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Washington Heights has the longest running nighttime trick-or-treating in Milwaukee. Washington Heights is also home to the city's only remaining independently owned children's bookstore ...
Fort Washington was a fortified position near the north end of Manhattan Island, at the island's highest point, within the modern-day neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City. The Fort Washington Site is listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
Hudson Heights is a residential neighborhood within Washington Heights in Upper Manhattan, New York City. Most residences are apartment buildings, many of which are cooperatives , and most were constructed in the 1920s through 1940s.
A West Haven, Connecticut father was arrested after being accused of “deliberately drowning his children” in the Long Island Sound. A West Haven Police Department officer heard “significant ...