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Our Courts

After the ribbon

Activation & art

Two things decide whether a restored court gets used: who shows up to run the games, and what the place looks like when you walk in.

Home The courts Activation & art Brick by Brick

A court is only as good as the games on it.

Resurfacing is the start. What keeps a court alive is everything that happens on it afterwards — leagues, clinics, tournaments, and a bus that turns up with a rim on the back.

A large group of children in Knicks jerseys with NYPD officers and coaches, posed together on a restored blue and green NYCHA court
NYCHA's Jr. Knicks league brings organized play back to restored courts. Photo courtesy of NYCHA.
The Hoopbus, a school bus painted with a Knicks graffiti mural, parked beside a backboard reading New York Forever at Stapleton Houses
The Hoopbus at Stapleton Houses. Photo courtesy of Hoopbus.
Adults lifting a small child up to dunk a basketball on the hoop mounted to the back of the Hoopbus
Everybody gets a dunk. Stapleton Houses. Photo courtesy of Hoopbus.
The Hoopbus parked under brick arches in the city, with a backboard extended over the pavement and a crowd gathered nearby
Wherever it parks, it's a court. Photo courtesy of Hoopbus.

Paint on the ground

The court is a canvas.

A resurfaced court is rarely just green asphalt. Across NYCHA, artists and residents design what goes on the ground and on the walls — seven stars for Brownsville, You Belong in twenty languages in Hell's Kitchen, a P at center court in Queens.

The Public Housing Community Fund's public art collection is free to browse on Bloomberg Connects, the arts and culture app.

Public art at NYCHA The ballplayers at Patterson
A player in a Hoopbus jersey leaps high above three teammates, ball in hand, on a freshly painted blue court
Photo courtesy of Hoopbus.

Come play with us

Brick by Brick.

Design your own NYCHA court — pick your colors, paint the center circle, park the Hoopbus, put up a rim. Save the picture and post it with #EveryCourtCounts, tagging @communityfundnyc and @hoopbus.

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