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.