NY Daily News profiles Brooklyn basketball culture, shouts out Robeson High

Brownsville Recreation Center gym. Photo by NY Daily News

NY Daily News does a long feature on Brooklyn high school basketball culture. The piece includes a point about limitations in facilities in old buildings with an anecdote from Robeson High, on Albany between Dean and Kingston:

Coaches must move around if they want to know the time and score when they visit Crown Heights. At Robeson High on Albany Ave., there is a basement “gymatorium.” The court is laid out in a way that a theatre stage and curtains serve as the backdrop for fans watching jump balls at midcourt. Coaches have to view a scoreboard partly obstructed by the curtains. Some walk out to midcourt to do so.

“Everything in Brooklyn is 100 years old,” Robeson coach Todd Myles says.

The piece doesn't note it, but Robeson High houses a magnate school, Pathways in Technology Early College High School, which President Obama visited in 2013 as a backdrop to announce new education initiatives.