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Hundreds Protest Opening of East Harlem, N.Y., Bus Depot over Health Concerns.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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September 7, 2003
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By Yoav Gonen, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 7--More than 200 people held a rally yesterday to protest the opening of the latest city bus depot in asthma-choked upper Manhattan.
The new Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus depot on E. 99th St. long has been a target of clean-air activists, who fear it will worsen asthma rates in East Harlem, which already has some of the highest rates of the respiratory disorder in the city.
A day before the so-called bus barn's opening, members of the East Harlem Asthma Working Group were joined by Sens. Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton in a last-minute march to draw attention to the ...
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