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Frey gets to know Coney Island not as a place with a few old amusement-park rides but as 50 square blocks of high-rises housing poor families and fractions of families. The athletes are the hope of the community, and they are talented enough to play at any college. Everyone knows this, including the big-time coaches who buddy up, winking and promising. For the honor of the neighborhood, Frey makes us feel, to redeem something from all of the drabness, at least one of these guys must make it big. But the odds aren't good. The omens...
...basketball. The fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School in the bleak Coney Island section of Brooklyn, New York...
...fine documentary film Hoop Dreams shows how the game is played with high school basketballers in Chicago, and now Darcy Frey's thoughtful, sharply observed book, The Last Shot (Houghton Mifflin; 230 pages; $19.95), spells out its consequences for students at Abraham Lincoln High School in the bleak Coney Island section of Brooklyn...
Frey gets to know Coney Island not as a place with a few old amusement park rides but as 50 square blocks of high-rises housing poor families and fractions of families. The athletes are the hope of the community, and they are talented enough to play at any college. Everyone knows this, including the big-time coaches who buddy up, winking and promising. For the honor of the neighborhood, Frey makes us feel, to redeem something from the miles of drabness, at least one of these guys must make it big. But the odds aren't good. The omens...
...rich. At a time when public beaches meant meager toilets in shabby wooden shacks, notes biographer Robert Caro, Moses sketched two enormous bathhouses a mile apart, with canopied terraces, vast swimming pools and even diaper-changing rooms. And in place of the barkers and hot-dog vendors of Coney Island, he decreed a serene, pristine boardwalk offering shuffleboard and paddle tennis, all at nominal prices -- no commerce allowed...