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...University Gym wasn't a strange place for the Crimson, although the squad did get lost. Sanders and his squad took the subway on a miserable snowy night to 116th St., and were misdirected, finally appearing at the start of the second half of the Columbia-Fordham freshman game...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Hoopster Rally Overwhelms Columbia | 2/9/1974 | See Source »

Sanders played his collegiate basketball at NYU and grew up on 116th Street and Sixth Ave. in New York. Lou Silver (Merrick, N.Y.), Arnie Needleman (Wantagh, N.Y.), Ken Wolfe (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Mike Griffin (Port Washington, N.Y.) are no strangers to the bright lights of the Big Apple...

Author: By Jefferson M. Flanders, | Title: Cagers Face Columbia Tonight And Start Weekend Road Trip | 2/8/1974 | See Source »

PRINCETON-COLUMBIA - Nassan St. v. Broadway and 116th, the Clubbies v. the Junkies. For 25 years. Princeton held the urban masses down, but then ROTC was kicked off campus and Columbia beat Princeton for the first time since 1946. Hopefully, Princeton will break Don Jackson's passing arm before he gets to use it on Harvard's defensive secondary next weekend. Columbia...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: On the Bench | 10/7/1972 | See Source »

Snoopy Sweatshirt. Violence is a fact of life to the children of West 116th Street, but in the weeks just before his death, Walt had more than his share. Earlier this month, someone dropped a brick on his head, and the wound had to be stitched. A few days later he was hit by a car, suffering scratches and bruises. A week after that, he fell from a fire escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Why Did Walter Die? | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...thing is certain-Walt had no trouble getting the stuff. Take a ride down 116th Street sometime; see the pushers openly peddling heroin to young blacks for $2 a bag. If you go on a mild gray day, you will see doped youngsters nodding listlessly in doorways. This was Walt's Main Street; it was all he ever knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Why Did Walter Die? | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

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