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Message: [QUOTE="Demo Square, post: 3816310, member: 10861"] Yeah Husky8273 Thanks. Yeah, it WAS Boy's High back then - Girls added later, '80's?. Sadly, since WWII, the neighborhood around Boys HS has gotten progressively more challenging each year for survival. Was not as bad when I played there some 60 years ago. Back then, Boys' best player on a great team was Vaughn Harper & they were NYC Public School champs often in the 60's.. I was respectful, but not fearful to go into that area of Bed-Stuy to watch or play pickup games. Today, I would be an easy target there. Sadly, Boys HS has dropped precipitously to become about the worst-ranked school perennially in NY State. And Boys' better players now are usually siphoned off to the better parochial "Saints & Bishops:" Molloy, Loughlin, Ford, Christ the King, St. Francis, McClancy, etc. Sad. Absolute longtime poverty kills bodies & spirits - absolutely!! Father Demo [/QUOTE]