[Cagey]

It is a ghetto - low income run down section of the city.

It is now. Not all that many years it was a mostly working class, safe and clean, neighborhood where people defined where they lived by the name of their church parish.

[Destro]

During the Dinkins administration (I think) the "residents" would fire bomb or throw bags of cement at arriving Firefighters to Washington Heights for sport. Killed a couple of firefighters too in this way if memory serves me correctly.