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Too often with videos documenting police brutality, we see one of two things: Either a crowd of bystanders looks on helplessly as officers abuse their power, or the crowd gets involved, and then there are mass arrests. In this video shot by Copwatch Patrol Unit member Michael Barber, however, neither of those outcomes happened — […]
A local community has rallied together to save a feral dog from the cold, DNAinfo reports, after one woman started sleep with the wild dog in the woods to keep it warm. Washington Heights woman Denise Lauffer, a dogwalker with a habit of adopting feral dogs. Residents say that the dog, who Lauffer called Charlie, […]
A park in Washington Heights has become a source of stress for the community as it has been slowly taken over by a group of homeless people. In 2001, Juan Pablo Duarte Square at the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and 170th Street has been turned into community project by the Greenstreet program and the Washington Heights Gardening Crew. The former all-granite gathering spot […]
