A dramatic attack leave 2 dead and 1 injured in Washington Heights (179 street)

On March 26, 2007, a sad attack happened in Washington Heights. Around 12:30 in the morning an unidentified killer jumped into where the two men were driving and terribly stabbed both of them at the corner of West 179th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue. As a result to this assault, one man was found dead and another it was shown that it was left bleeding from the stomach. The man that was found dead in New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia, his name was Norberto Colon also known as Noa was 37 years old and was from Manhattan. The other victim that was with Norberto, which his name wasn’t released was 23 years old and he was stabbed in the stomach. He was taken to another hospital, Harlem Hospital Center, where they state that he was in critical condition. The police states that the person that “entered the victims’ vehicle” and stabbed these men is described in his 40s. However, “cops are still investigating whether the men stabbed each other.”
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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nystab265145935mar26,0,3101016.story http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/2007/03/26/2007-03-26_weekend_knifings_kill_2_and_wound_1.html

The Upper Upper West Side Story- IN THE HEIGHTS

Listen to this fantastic play describing the Washington Heights. The play is called In the Heights, by Lin-Manuel Miranda. Many people that watched this play have been extremely amazed on how the characters from the play reveal was is truly Washington Heights. Washington Heights has been a home for alot of different immgrants, such as Irish, Jewish, Italian, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans. The 27 year old man, Miranda grew in the Northern Manhattan states that now the neighborhood "is a largely a Dominican community." For example some high school students from the Theater Development Fund went to the play and they demostrated their excitement by "stomping wildly through the show." The play is consisted of hip-hop, salsa, and old-fashioned storytelling into a nouveau. The play is a"West Side story tale of love, loss, dreams, and change in the gentrifying but-still-mostly Dominican Heights." The students from the Theater Development Fund were thrilled when they heard one main characters rapping about Dominican Republic. They kept being excited when they heard the electrifying dance at the end of Act One, "to the hysteria-inducing moment when hunky heartthrob Christopher Jackson."

Infact, I also exprienced watching this incredible play with fellow classmates and teachers from Murry Bergtraum. We got to share wonderful times filled with Dominican spirit. I was so happy watching how they transform this play to be exactly how Washington Heights is. The way they organized the stage was marvelous. They had the typical Dominican beauty salon with women chatting and gossiping while they fixed their hair, and the grocery store serving their coffee with milk consisting of 4 spoons of sugar. Watching this play, it truly made me feel like a true Dominican girl.
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/101170.html-29k-Mar
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2007/03/upper_upper_west_side_story.html#more

About My Community

If you hear the loud music of bachata, merengue, reggueton, you already know that you are in Washington Heights. People talking loud, from one street to another, the whole block knowing everyone’s business you are in Washington Heights. There are multiple parks, such as Inwood Hill Park and Fort Tryon Park, both with along the Hudson River. In my neighborhood, 173street, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, kids from Elementary School at P.S.173 crossing the streets with their friends. Kids running around and go to bodegas for junk food. A man usually stands in front of the school selling patelitos, or frio frio. Dominican women are always on the sidewalks gossiping who did what and when and how. In the middle of the night, cars are playing loud music. Most of the times, you can't even sleep because its either your neighbors talking loud in the hallways, teens shouting outside like they are crazy, or someone in the building is having a party. If you want to live in Washington Heights, expect a whole of money, rounding from $800 to $1500 for just 1 bedroom apartment. However, you could get in a studio, which is less expensive. Once you enter Washington Heights, you could truly feel like you are in Dominican Republic!