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color=#333333></FONT></FONT></SPAN> </P><PRE style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">The Upper Manhattan neighborhood of Washington Heights has gone through many changes since the early 1900s, when it was largely populated by </FONT></FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#252525><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Jewish and Irish immigrants from Europe.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#252525> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#252525><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">By mid-century, Soviet refugees were the dominant demographic, who were then replaced by families from the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Puerto Rico.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By the 1980s, gang activity infiltrated Washington Heights, resulting in a <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%">crime rate that rivaled nearby <SPAN class=apple-converted-space>Harlem.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the 1990s,</SPAN> <SPAN class=apple-converted-space>the neighborhood </SPAN></SPAN>became the largest drug distribution center in the five boroughs and beyond.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#252525> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#252525><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">This is not quite the welcoming </FONT></FONT></SPAN><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>world that’s been created by Lin-Manuel Miranda (music/lyrics) and </FONT></SPAN><FONT color=#252525><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; BACKGROUND-IMAGE: none; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat; BACKGROUND-ATTACHMENT: scroll; BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0% 0%; COLOR: ">Quiara Alegria Hudes (book) for their 2008 Tony Award-winning musical “In the Heights.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ">Their Washington Heights is a highly </SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT color=#333333>romanticized and thoroughly sanitized c</FONT></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#252525>elebration of three generations of Hispanic families who are just trying to carve out a living and make this piece of the island their home.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#252525> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#252525>And it is on display at the Beck Center for the Arts in Lakewood.</FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE><PRE style="BACKGROUND: white; MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: "><FONT face=Arial><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#252525> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></PRE>
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