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Washington Heights Armory on Defense Over Who Gets to Use Space
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Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY
In an era when space equals safety, the Fort Washington Avenue Armory offers some of the most enviable elbow room in Upper Manhattan.
The expansive 250,000-square-foot building plays host to a wide array of activities, most recently serving as a mass vaccination site and perhaps most famously as a facility for international track and field events, run by the nonprofit The Armory Foundation.
But how the facility is used and who makes those decisions is not always clear, becoming a growing point of contention in the neighborhood, especially as the city’s slow crawl out of the pandemic creates new demands on public space.
This cluster is unrelated to the previous cluster of cases in Saratoga Springs confirmed last week.
In light of this, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has called for flight restrictions to prevent more cases of that contagious strain from arriving here from the UK and other places.
The Jones Beach mega-site opens Thursday morning with a news conference, but the Nassau County executive was not expected to attend.
Laura Curran is quarantining at home after possible exposure to COVID-19. She is reportedly feeling well.
So far a little more than 700,000 people have received the vaccine statewide.