Residents Float Bathhouse Revival
By Matthew Townsend | October 19th, 2007 | | 
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- Published in: The Villager
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CLEAN START: Lower East Side residents are pushing for the restoration and reopening of the long-shuttered LaGuardia Bathhouse.
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Ida Ortiz-Colon swam in the LaGuardia Bathhouse five decades ago.
“It was awesome,” said Ortiz-Colon, who has lived on the Lower East Side for 52 years. “They had lifeguards and basketball courts. It was great.”
Now Ortiz-Colon wants kids in her neighborhood to have the same opportunity she did. The city closed the three-story building during the 1970s financial crisis and never reopened it.
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