Basketball

I started playing basketball in Sunset Park, Brooklyn when I was about eleven years old, and have played (not as well as I would have liked) in schoolyards, YMCAs, recreation centers, school gyms, and beachside courts throughout the city. From 1989 to 2011, I had an unusual job photographing for New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. I documented vacant land and distressed properties throughout the five boroughs, most frequently in neighborhoods hit hardest by the housing crisis of the 1970s. I found these courts everywhere, from Tottenville in Staten Island to Wakefield in the Bronx, from West Harlem to East New York, Brooklyn.