WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, Manhattan (PIX11) -- It's construction that's meant to shore up a dilapidated three-block stretch of one of the city's busiest roadways, but because the project has now taken half a dozen years and is still not complete after the contractor stopped work a year ago, residents protested on Friday.
Amid chants of "Finish the job! Finish the job!" and while carrying a variety of protest signs, dozens of residents of three large apartment complexes on upper Riverside Drive came out to a late morning demonstration in front of their buildings.
Arthur McLean was one of the protesters. He said, in an interview right after the demonstration, that the road and sidewalk construction that's blocking access to his building on Riverside Drive West near 158th Street is a major inconv

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