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 Detail of the wall at Coney Island Handball Courts

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Detail of the equipment used for a player  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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Sports: Handball- NYC
Copyright joana toro 2024
Date of Work Aug 2020 - Ongoing
Updated Apr 2023
Topics editorial [featured]
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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