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Mar 16

City fires Bushwick fitness teacher but she keeps pumping on  

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A Bushwick fitness instructor fired by the City Parks Department after she blasted the agency for cutting classes is teaching her students on her own dime.

Ivanna Nazaire is still leading ten heart-pounding sweatathons each week inside the I.S. 291 cafeteria on Palmetto Street despite the city cutting her $300 pay.

I cant stop teaching. I cant fail the people like that. Its wrong, Nazaire said.

Parks Dept. officials announced late last year that Bushwicks Shape Up - a program that provides free fitness classes around the city - would go from 12 to 7 hours of aerobics sharing the rest of the time with a site in hipster Williamsburg.

Nazaire bashed the plan to The News saying her faithful low-income students shouldnt be treated this way.

Two months later, Parks officicals told Nazaire to stop teaching the classes.

For these people, this is it; they have no other place to go, Nazaire said.

Coalition for Hispanic Family Services' Beacon Center for Arts and Leadership has been allowing Nazaire to use the cafeteria at night for the classes while it runs other night-time programs at the school.

Beacon Center director Sara Woolley is continuing Nazaires schedule despite the citys decision to can her.

She is an incredible instructor, said Woolley adding that nearly 800 Bushwick residents worked out with Nazaire in 2011 and already 500 people have come to her step, body strength, and boot camp classes.

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