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It's a funny piece of land for the Upper East Side. Wedged between the FDR Drive, DeKovats Park and the truck ramp to the East 91st Street sanitation tranfer station, the cramped corner boasts a river view. But nobody's planning to put a high-rise apartment building on it.
Dr. George E. Murphy already has plans. The 67-year-old research pathologist wants to provide, yet again, a new opportunity for the neighborhood's residents, especially the youngsters - a swimming facility with L-shaped pool of Olympic length, six lanes of 50 meters, and a sports medicine clinic.
"In the Olympics, there were very few kids from New York City in the swimming events. Why? Because the greatest city in the world doesn't have the pools for them to train. Kids don't vote," said the Cornell University Medical College professor. "And I'm excited about the clinic. It brings all this back full circle to medicine."
Murphy first strayed from medicine 14 years ago when developers targeted the site of the...