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Gotham Hoops
The 1st annual Midtown Madness was hosted at Martin Luther King, Jr. Educational Campus on Saturday and featured a wealth of promising prospects from the New York City-area.
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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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Future home of Positive Influence
Summer 2017 Positive Influence Basketball Classics will have a brand new park. Click here to view pictures of the new park.
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