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Sports: Handball- NYC

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Clients: The New York Times , Wall Street Journal , Roads and Kingdoms, Atlas Oscura, MIT Techonology Review

Coney Island Handball Courts player.

Coney Island Handball Courts players.

Detail of the wall at Coney Island Handball Courts

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people is watching a game of handball at Coney Island Courts players.

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people is watching a game of handball at Coney Island Courts players.

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Detail of the equipment used for a player at Coney Island Handball Courts

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Sports: Handball- NYC

Copyright joana toro 2024

Date of Work Aug 2020 - Ongoing

Updated Apr 2023

Location New York City Coney Island

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Coney Island Handball Courts players

In 1930s FDR's Works Progress Administration was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest years of the Great Depression. They built hundreds of handball courts in schoolyards, parks and beaches throughout New York City. Handball is still played in all five boroughs, but in Coney Island is the core of one-wall handball

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