High Covid Rates + Classrooms Closed + Illegal Dirt Bikes

Hey, neighbors! Jason Fernandez here with a fresh copy of the Washington Heights-Inwood Daily.

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First, today's weather:

Clear throughout the day. High: 84 Low: 65.

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Here are the top stories today in Washington Heights-Inwood:

1. The 10034 and 10040 ZIP codes have a combined COVID-19 average
   positivity rate of 3.83 percent for the week of Sept. 6 through 12. During the same period, Manhattan had an average positivity rate of just 1.97 percent. These ZIP codes in Washington Heights and Inwood currently have the highest COVID-19 rates of any in Manhattan, according to city-data. (Washington Heights-Inwood Patch)
2. As the first week of fully in-person learning since the pandemic comes to a close for New York City's public schools, 126 of the 65,000 classrooms across the city were either fully or partially closed due to coronavirus cases detected in the building. That number includes at least nine classrooms in Washington Heights schools. (Washington Heights-Inwood Patch)
3. A rendering has been revealed for 5055 Broadway, an 11-story residential building in Inwood Manhattan. The property is located between West 215th and 216th Streets, a short walk from Isham and Inwood Hill Parks. The amenity spaces will include a lounge, a fitness center, a communal roof deck, a bike room, and tenant storage. (New York YIMBY)
4. Mayor De Blasio calls for dirt bike crackdown as a boy fights for his life after a Queens hit-and-run. The NYPD and Mayor got aggressive towards the city's issues with illegal dirt bikes on Thursday afternoon at a Staten Island sanitation yard. Two heavy bulldozers ran over about 50 confiscated dirt bikes, ATVs and scooters. (WPIX 11 New York)
5. Ligia Cushman, who grew up in New York City's predominantly Dominican neighborhood of Washington Heights where she remembers being told "you're not Black, you're Dominican," used to identify herself as Hispanic until she moved to the Deep South. (Today.com)

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Today in Washington Heights-Inwood:

• Fort Tryon Rocks! Geology Tour - Fort Tryon Park (10:00 AM)
• NYC Youth Sports & Arts Programs (Online Registration Begins) (1:00 PM)
• Fort Tryon Kids: Nature Embroidery - Fort Tryon Park (1:00 PM)

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Washington Heights-Inwood Patch Notebook

• Ydanis Rodriguez: "Join us this Saturday, 9/18 at 1pm at 167th St & Amsterdam Ave for our Street Co-naming ceremony honoring the life & legacy of Normandía Maldonado. See you there! https://conta.cc/3nTkDAL" (Facebook)

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About me: Patch Contributing Writer in Washington Heights-Inwood, NY

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