Behind Lincoln Center, at the heart of a semicircle of tall brick buildings with a dome of leafy trees, on the dull playground of the Amsterdam Houses, the basketball league playoffs were underway. From Our Advertisers Youth basketball has been a tradition in this public space on the Upper West Side since at least the 1960s, when Samuel N. Bennerson II, whose name is engraved on a sign along the iron gate, created the Betterment League.
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Andrew Blacks is one persistent, determined person. We are in the middle of winter but planning is well underway for the 2022 summer version of Positive Influence Basketball – a community league created by Blacks in 2005. It is held every summer in the Bennerson playground located in the midst of the New York City Housing Authority’s (NYCHA) Amsterdam Houses on West 64th Street. The playground is named for Samuel Bennerson II, who created one of the first leagues in the NYCHA development in the 1960s
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Turns out you can fight City Hall. After years of decay, a playground on the Upper West Side is renovated thanks to a resident who waged a solitary campaign for the city to fix it. Manhattan reporter Michael Scotto has the story.On a typical late summer afternoon, basketball players fill the Bennerson Playground, a small park tucked in the middle of the Amsterdam Houses on the Upper West Side.For residents of this NYCHA complex, it is a place to watch games and relax.
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Turns out you can fight City Hall. After years of decay, a playground on the Upper West Side is renovated thanks to a resident who waged a solitary campaign for the city to fix it. Manhattan reporter Michael Scotto has the story.On a typical late summer afternoon, basketball players fill the Bennerson Playground, a small park tucked in the middle of the Amsterdam Houses on the Upper West Side.For residents of this NYCHA complex, it is a place to watch games and relax.
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An anti-violence program based in East Harlem, a neighborhood hit particularly hard by spikes in shootings during the COVID-19 pandemic, will move ahead this year with city support despite losing funding from the federal Justice Department.